Art Pop Up Shop at the Lantern
Art Pop Up Shop at the Lantern A one day, two floor, multi artist pop up shop. Come and peruse the wares, have a drink, hang out and help us create a hub for creatives! Coffee shop / bar open throughout. Free entry.
The Maydays Performance Showcase – Musical Harold Advanced Performance Course
The Maydays Performance Showcase – Musical Harold Advanced Performance Course Join the students from our Advanced Musical Harold Performance Course for their improv showcase, after 12 weeks, they’re ready to strut their stuff for friends and family!
Handbag
Handbag by Mark Ravenhill Twenty-eight years before The Importance of Being Earnest, a young woman gives birth to a baby boy. Is it an accident when Nanny places him in a handbag and her unpublished novel into the pram? In 1998 a new baby is stolen and an academic discovers an unpublished novel of more […]
The Maydays present: Double Bill – Improv Performance Showcases
The Maydays present: Double Bill – Improv Performance Showcases A double-bill of Maydays students performing their end-of-term shows! First up, the Beginners group will perform short sharp and hilarious games a la Whose Line is it Anyway? Then our Story Makers course will weave an entirely improvised tale, inspired by audience suggestions!
An Introduction to Playwriting : Staged Readings
An Introduction to Playwriting : Staged Readings Three new playwrights, Annie Sheppard, Richard Marris and Tig Savage, present new writing developed on ACT’s Introduction to Playwriting course. This is a rehearsed reading with professional actors bringing these new scripts to the stage for the first time. SH!TSHOW by Richard Marris‘Fear and loathing in 1970’s Yorkshire. […]
Geneva Convention (A Work in Progress)
Geneva Convention (A Work in Progress) War. Brutality. Collapse. Ripples of peripheral trauma. Four female voices. In Geneva. Or wherever. Chaotic sense of being a human being in this world. But everything is fine. Everything is fine … and not fine.An experimental drama by Mark C. Hewitt performed by an international cast. With music by […]
ACT Theatre Bookclub
ACT Theatre Bookclub Have you made a New Year’s resolution to read more plays in 2023? Challenge yourself to join us in reading a new play every month this year! In January we’re reading Slave Play by @jeremyoharris “one of the most promising playwrights of his generation” (Vogue) and the “theatre world’s vital new voice”. […]
Terrorism
Terrorism by The Presnyakov Brothers ACT Diploma present the extraordinary debut play from the Royal Court by two brothers from Siberia. A series of seemingly unrelated scenes portray the ordinary frustrations of everyday life: office workers bickering, a couple committing adultery, grannies complaining about their husbands. But the scenes unfold to reveal the mistrust and […]