The Winter Wish
‘Absolutely brilliant, loved every minute of it.... oh yeah..... and my daughter did too 🎅.'
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'The show was fantastic. My jaw hurt from laughing. How they let the children fully interact and it not cause an issue with the performance was so lovely to see.'
'Massive thank you to everyone involved’
‘Folkestone Performing Arts Company did a brilliant job keeping all the children entertained with their performance at our recent colleague family morning. The actors were so professional, very friendly and had all the children cheering and joining in from the start!'
'They were also incredibly accommodating in ensuring the show was SEND friendly and suitable for all our families. A huge thank you from SAGA ’
FPAC is proud to announce its first children's show, The Winter Wish, which premiered at Looping the Loop & ARK's Making More Waves Festival in November 2024 and has a second performance as part of SAGA's Holiday Programme in December 2025:
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​A rag tag rabble of robbers aim to find treasure in their local post-box filled with the winter wishes of the young & old of Folkestone. What they don’t expect is that this is no ordinary post-box but a magical one capable of transporting the hapless robbers throughout time where they discover the importance of giving rather than receiving.
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Filled with sights, sounds & scents of the season, FPAC’s The Winter Wish is a play for the entire family in the run up to the holidays.
Suitable for families with children 4+.
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The Leech of Folkestone April 2025
“The world, according to the best geographers is divided into Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Romney Marsh. In this last-named, and fifth, quarter of the globe, a Witch may still be occasionally discovered in favourable, i.e. stormy, seasons, weathering Dungeness Point in an eggshell, or careering on her broomstick over Dymchurch wall.”
Mrs Botherby’s Story: The Leech of Folkestone, set in the depths of Romney Marsh, tells the macabre but humorous tale of a woman so fed up with her husband, she sets out to rid herself of him with the help of the local doctor. The play contains mediaeval folklore, comic and colourful characters, supernatural themes and beautiful, dramatic descriptions of the landscape of southeast Kent.
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Through the unique theatrical methodology of training & devising called The Viewpoints, FPAC's ensemble is able to tell this community story in dynamic and unexpected ways. Full of colour, music, visual delights, smells and a great story, this production sets out to immerse and revive the senses of its audience.
The Leech is particularly suitable for touring throughout Kent because of its Kent-specific source material. The play is self-sufficient & technically adaptable and has been devised for non-theatrical spaces. It is a show for all ages to tour in the spring. It is a perfect piece of story-telling theatre to hear myths and legends of the local area.
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One of the Finest Vistas in the District, 2023
It has been a real privilege for the Folkestone Performing Arts Company to co-create a unique piece of verbatim theatre that charted the successful campaign to save Prince’s Parade. Alongside the script, there is also a database of recorded stories of a small sliver of the many participants throughout the years of campaigning.
The Save Prince’s Parade Campaign was a community group who successfully challenged the Folkestone and Hythe District Council’s plans to build a housing estate of 150 three and four-storey seafront dwellings, a hotel and a leisure centre on council-owned land adjacent to the Royal Military Canal, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, at Princes Parade, Hythe, Kent.
The tranquil, green strip of land at Princes Parade is both beautiful and unique. It lies between the Royal Military Canal, built as a defensive measure during the Napoleonic wars, and the seafront at Seabrook in Kent. The Canal with its peaceful and accessible waterside paths combines with the vibrant seafront promenade to provide a variety of low-key leisure activities such as walking and cycling that all can enjoy for free.
Of immense value to the local community, Prince’s Parade also attracts many visitors from outside the immediate area. Its seafront road and promenade are renowned for their open character and panoramic views of the Hythe hills to the north and the open sea and France (on clear days) to the south.