AsOne Theatre is pleased to report the succesful sellout garden performance of its recent touring production - She Opened the Door in the actual location where the play is set, Thomas Hardy's Dorchester home, Max Gate. The single performance in association with the National Trust West Dorset took place place at 3pm on Sunday 21st August. The play about Thomas Hardy's first wife Emma and the women, real and fictional, who surrounded the writer at the height of his fame in 1896 - (The Wife, The Mother, The Other Woman and The Ruined Maid). Poundbury Garden Centre kindly donated a rose tree in a planter to raffle for AsOne Theatre's educational project: Mary Anning's Fossil Depot, a part of cross-curricular arts day - Jurassic Creatures - on offer to Primary Schools in January 2012

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The Cabinet Maker's Daughter 

Touring Wessex Theatres and beyond from May 2012 

A new play  for 2012 commisioned by AsOne, from Peter J Cooper with music by Roderick Skeaping based on the life of the incredible 19th Century Dorset fossil hunter Mary Anning. 

Jurassic Creatures  

Touring primary schools and museums November 2011 through 2012

A cross curricular arts day produced and presented  by AsOne Theatre with Mary Anning's Fossil Depot and Fossil Fun for Kids

 Dorset and East Devon primary and middle schools are invited into Mary Anning’s Depot; Mary will introduce her fossil curios with exciting stories of 19th century discovery and achievement; then the children will paint fossil moulds, find out more about past giant marine creatures and enjoy a drama workshop.

Contact As One on: 01305 835541 or email: jane@ asone-dorset.co.uk

Dorset Business Awards  

AsOne Theatre was one of the three finalists nominated in the 2009  Dorset Business Awards - in the most creative Company/Project of the Year.

Over 600 Companies entered the DBA's.