Welcome to Swanage Drama Company

Welcome to our website! We are Swanage Drama Company (SDC) an amateur theatre company based in the beautiful town of Swanage, Dorset, UK


News

March 2026

NODA Awards 2025

We are beyond excited to announce that Swanage Drama Company has been honoured with the District Achievement Award for District 11 at the 2025 South West NODA Awards!This award celebrates our consistently strong productions and it wouldn’t be possible without the passion, dedication, talent and teamwork of our cast and crew, past and present. Each one has given up their time to help us grow as a company so thank you.And to our amazing audiences, thank you for your continued support to us and to other theatre companies.We’re looking forward to the ceremony and the biggest of congratulations to all the winners and all the nominees.Here’s to celebrating this moment and to many more unforgettable productions ahead!

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August 2025

Swanage Carnival

Whilst we've been having a little bit of a break in-between shows, we were absolutely delighted to get involved in this years Swanage Carnival. It was a fantastic day that brought the whole town (and visitors) together, and we couldn't have been prouder to take part in such a vibrant community event. We decided to embrace the spirit of our upcoming pantomime dressing up in colourful costumes inspired by Aladdin for the procession - from Genies to Dames to street rats and even an inflatable camel, we hope we captured the magic of Aladdin in the parade! 

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April 2025

Noda Nomination (with update)

We are very pleased and excited that Swanage Drama Company have been nominated for 'Best Small Pantomime' for our 2024 production of 'Cinderella' at the South West Noda awards 2025! Thank you NODA for the nomination, well done and good luck to all the other nominee's, we're looking forward to the awards ceremony!

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March 2025

Upcoming Shows

It's a very busy time for us at Swanage Drama Company as we get ready for not one, but two performances! 

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January 2025

'Evening of Entertainment' 2024 - Total amount raised update

Back in November, we held our annual 'Evening of Entertainment' to raise money for charity and we announced that the money raised would be split between Dementia Friendly Purbeck and Children in Need. We can now reveal that we raised £1210 to be split between them so thank you to everyone who came to the show and helped us raise this amazing amount of money!

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Tickets for 'Jack and the Beanstalk'

Tickets for our pantomime 'Jack and the Beanstalk' are going quickly! The circle is now open for our performances on Saturday 11th at 2pm, Saturday 18th at 2pm and Saturday 18th at 7.30pm! If you haven't got your tickets yet, then make sure you head to The Mowlem Theatre to get yours but you'd best be quick, tickets are selling fast! 

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