Our Rural Community Actor Programme is based at The Ley Hall, Lealholm on the beautiful North York Moors.

Focus is on writing & devising new work for performance, creating site specific work alongside regular termly acting and theatrecraft workshops.

For more info on our Rural Community Actors Programme email everwitch@outlook.com

Upcoming Events

Around The Moors in Eighty Hours

Our Wednesday night Community Actors Group devised/scripted fun filled new production in partnership with 3 Minute Arts Festival.

PosterDesign by Pascal Thivillon

Final touches are underway at award winning Everwitch Theatre in Lealholm as their company of rural community actors prepare to stage their latest exciting & fun-filled new devised play, Around The Moors in 80 Hours! which was commissioned by 3MinuteArts, and will be performed at Glaisdale’s Mini Art’s Festival and at Whitby Museum this summer!

From the smuggling community of Staithes to the wilds of Fairy Cross Plain on the North York Moors, can Phileas Fogg and Passepartout successfully undertake another impossible wager!

With the hilarious physical comedy of Paul Lambert as the put-upon Manservant, Passepartout, to Pascal Thivillion’s seriously determined Mr Phileas Fogg, and Karen Joiner’s delightfully wild former Herring Lass/ now Smuggler joining their wager, can the famous duo possibly survive an 80 hour ordeal that includes encounters with dangerous moor-life, including fog dwelling Jack O’Lanterns, a mysterious Barguest, a Hand of Glory, a freak snow storm and more?

This fun packed adventure is engagingly led by local Danby farmer and actor, Steve Smith, as the local Pannierman, who kicks the story off telling of the time he encountered the infamous duo and of their adventures, as he makes his way along The Pannierman’s Way from Castleton to Staithes.

PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES

SATURDAY 30TH MAY 2026, 4.30pm, Robinson Institute, Glaisdale, North Yorkshire.

3 Minute Arts Festival, Glaisdale. Saturday 30th May at 4.30pm. No booking required.

FRIDAY 5th JUNE 2026, 2pm, Whitby Museum, Pannett Park, Whitby, North Yorkshire

Whitby Museum, Friday 5th June at 2pm. Booking required