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DAY-STAR THEATRE ARE
Jane Marshall in the distant past, has appeared in the film Robin Hood and on TV in Brookside. Jane also paints and runs courses on traditional canal art which was featured on the T.V. show Locks & Quays. She also plays the violin. Her spare time is taken up with growing vegetables, wood working, riding horses canal boating and walking in nice places
Duffy Marshall who, many years ago, has appeared on TV in Watching, Coronation Street, Medics, Children's Ward and Brookside. is the writer of all our plays, and some of the songs and music. He is also one half of The Duffey Boys (yes with an ‘e’) a singer/songwriting duo and one quarter of The Wash a new band who refuse to be pigoen holed musicaly or any other way for that matter. Duffy is an equity stage name (mum's maiden name). His real name is Pete. He likes boating and walking with Jane
Jack Marshall is an acomplished musician with a first class honors degree as well as a singer songewriter currently performing as one half of The Spare Ribs He has worked on much of day-star’s recent music and has composed and recorded the last 2 rural touring soundtracks with Duffy. He also runs Hollow Floor recording studios from our base at Audlem
George Marshall is currently our leading sound and lighting engineer having masterminded and developed our last 3 lighting plans. George also plays drums in The Wash and spends every spare waking hour fitting out a 102 year old narrow boat - a new home for his growing family
Kirsty Marshall A relatively recent addition to the Marshall clan having married George she is also one of the sound and lighting team. She is a talented singer and dancer and has recently gained new skills, refitting a narrow boat, splicing ropes and working locks!
IN THE BEGINNING
In 1977 Pete and Jane Marshall moved onto a 45ft wooden narrow boat and found a mooring on the river Thames at Weybridge. The boat was called Day-Star and by 1980 they were fed up of never having enough time to cruise the inland waterways. The solution was to give up proper jobs and head north on to the canal system.
The small matter of money to buy food led Pete (a former drama teacher) to write a short 1 man play to perform at canalside pubs during the summer and then, maybe with the novelty having warn off, they could go back to a normal existence. No chance! The 1 man show soon developed into a 1 man 1 woman show with the unsuspecting Jane (a former agricutural student and dairy farmer) being the other half. During the next twenty five years children were born, other actors came and went, another boat (The Angry Bull) replaced the loveable, leaky Day-Star and more theatre and other projects were started at our South Cheshire base.
NOW
6 summers ago saw the final Waterways Tour but Day-Star are still be based on the Shropshire Union Canal at The Old Stables, Audlem, Cheshire continuing with and developing our Rural Tours taking our original and highly relevant plays to village halls and small theatres and continuing our Plays and workshops for schools and Roses and Castles painting wekends.
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