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DAY-STAR THEATRE ARE
Jane Marshall has appeared in the film Robin Hood and on TV in Brookside. Jane also paints and runs courses on traditional canal art and plays the fiddle. Her spare time is taken up with growing vegetables and riding horses and occasionally driving an old tractor
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, songs and music. He is also one half of The Duffey Boys (yes with an ‘e’) a singer/songwriting duo and one quarter of Hollow Floor 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 also gets to drive the tractor sometimes.
Jack Marshall is sound & lighting technician for the rural touring plays. He is also a talented songwriter & guitarist with his own band The Defense and as bassist for Hollow Floor and is fast becoming a sound production & recording wizard as well as studying perrforming arts in music.
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
3 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.
However our links with the water are not completely broken because this year we will be performing at a few Festivals
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