THE work of a small group which has been working on a new theatre production will be shown in Newcombes Meadow, Crediton, tomorrow, Saturday, September 11, before it goes on tour.

Local artist, actor, musician Philip Robinson and the "All Is Mended" team have been working with local care home residents, their families and staff during the past year, including St Swithun’s and Hillbrow in Crediton, and Coppelia House in Moretonhampstead.

They have been helping people express their thoughts and feelings about their experiences of being cared for and caring, through storytelling and art workshops.

This community are the co-creators of All Is Mended. Together they connect these stories and art, creating a book, a touring art exhibition and a play set in a care home.

The play and exhibition will tour across Devon from September to December 2021, starting and finishing in Crediton, and has been partnered by Crediton Arts Centre and The Bookery.

The play "All Is Mended" is a comedy with a serious side.

A repurposing of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, it tells a new story of life in a care home.

It’s about magic and remembering, resilience and forgetting, old age and young dreams and of course love.

A shape-shifting drama, funny and sad, real and dreamlike, it is interwoven with recorded extracts from collected conversations with elders from local care homes.

Performers Gillie Stoneham and Philip Robinson will play all the parts. Come and lift your spirits and be away with the fairies for an hour.

Free shows will be performed at 3pm and 6pm tomorrow, Saturday, September 11, by the Bandstand in Newcombes Meadow Park, Crediton.

Booking is essential, tickets from: ticketsource.co.uk/creditonartscentre .

After that the project will tour around Devon, returning again for the finale shows at Crediton Arts Centre in December. Many of these performances will be accompanied by an art exhibition: “Old Hands@Art”, consisting of care home residents’ art work created with All Is Mended artist Bridget Cordory.

The book “A Little Bit of Magic - care home voices in the time of Covid” based on work in local care homes over the past year, will be launched at The Bookery later this month.

For further details, visit: allismended.co.uk or: facebook.com/allismended .