A COMMUNITY play based on the life and times of the Rev Sabine Baring-Gould will be portrayed for four nights at Bratton Clovelly Parish Hall, starting next Wednesday (March 28). Red Spider Company has produced the play about the Lew Trenchard clergyman – best known for the hymn, 'Onward Christian Soldiers'. For the past four years his life has been meticulously researched by author Ron Wawman and the result is the play 'Like a Buoy'. This is an ambitious undertaking with more than 60 scenes and a company of around 110, including actors, singers, dancers and musicians. It is directed by Anthony Richards and musically by Alan Boxer. It follows Baring-Gould through 76 years of his life as he painfully breaks free from a paternal straight-jacket and, despite original intense social disapproval, achieves a happy marriage with Grace, which produced 15 children, and labours against the odds to build his dream mansion. The play has been sponsored by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, Lew Trenchard Manor Hotel in association with von Essen Hotels Premier Nutrition and West Devon Borough Council. Doors open at 7pm and the play starts at 7.30pm. To book, contact Mary Jordan on 01837 871220. For more information visit http://www.likeabuoy.co.uk">www.likeabuoy.co.uk Some of the cast are pictured above. Picture by James Bird
