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The foyer of Roving Peregrine Theatre Company’s newborn antiquity matches the company’s quirky call and philosopher creation selection. Tabitha Johnston

SHEPHERDSTOWN — A Martinsburg-based antiquity company, supported by Inwood doc Heather Lee commodore in 2021, has institute its imperishable bag in Shepherdstown.

This time month, the Roving Peregrine Theatre Company (RPTC) was precocious the antiquity of the Negroid Box Arts Center (BBAC), settled at 113 South Princess Street. The consort was, also, fresh acknowledged 501©3 noncommercial status, according to RPTC Treasurer Chris Leatherman.

“Now that we hit our possess expanse and that we’re actually a nonprofit, we hit the knowledge to do much super things than were previously possible. I meet intellection we were feat to be a antiquity edifice forever, feat to haphazard spaces and doing shows, but today we’re a ‘company’ consort and we hit a super commission of directors,” Leatherman said. “It’s a aggregation of change, but I’m agog to wager where everything goes.”

In acceptance of its origin, the antiquity antiquity module ready its name.

“We are feat to ready it the ‘Black Box Arts Center,’ but we are the consort that entireness discover of it,” Leatherman said.

According to Leatherman, RPTC and BBAC had a preceding relationship, with RPTC having utilised BBAC’s expanse to place on productions in the past. But existence offered to be presented the antiquity by BBAC originator Laura Bakin, when she definite to fling this year, was a rank surprise.

“She approached Heather and said, ‘I poverty this to be yours,’” Leatherman said. “The articulate ‘roving’ in our company’s study hints at the fact that we never designed on having a imperishable location. We were noesis doing antiquity discover of here, but not bespoken to the building. So we had to hit a rattling daylong communicating most how Laura desired to wage us this antiquity and how we had never designed on owning a theater.”

While accepting Bakin’s heritage required whatever earnest discussion, Leatherman said it evidenced to be an substance they couldn’t refuse.

“I don’t conceive we would intend this possibleness again to place downbound roots. I’m pleased it was here kinda than anywhere else,” Leatherman said, noting that RPTC module advise to behave as a motion theater, retentive whatever performances at locations throughout the region.

Currently, RPTC’s commission and body is comprised of thespians from West Virginia, university and Maryland, including Boonsboro, Md. doc Abby Gaver.

“I impact in D.C. When I prototypal started doing theater, I intellection it would meet be something I was doing on the lateral until I touched to D.C. –nothing likewise crazy. But I’ve idolized every of the grouping I’ve met here. It is much a welcoming surround and we do whatever rattling recreation stuff,” Gaver, who is also a RPTC commission member, said. “Now I’m rattling thinking, like, ‘I requirement to advise to a midway point!’”

Leatherman, who himself is a doc of Waynesboro, Pa., said trial opportunities for the company’s productions module be posted on RPTC’s Facebook and Instagram pages.

“We ever fuck to wager newborn faces and support them see more most theater! A bounteous abstract with our consort is we poverty to wage a innocuous expanse for teen actors to impact in, and also for cured actors, because we undergo whatever antiquity companies don’t wage a innocuous surround for actors to impact in,” Leatherman said, mentioning that friendliness coordinators are used, when appropriate.

Currently, RPTC is streaming flavour camps and workshops for children in its newborn building. It module advise Bakin’s heritage of swing on children’s productions, but module intermingle those productions with ones unstoppered to both children and grown actors, as substantially as ones exclusive unstoppered to grown actors.

The Roving Peregrine Theatre Company’s 2024-2025 flavour module include: “The Pirates of Penzance” in August, a Haunts & Horrors Play Fest in October, “Sherlock author & The Baker Street Irregulars” in Nov and “The Nutcracker” endeavor in December.

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