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Macready (Mark Straford)

Macready!

  • Venue: The Jack Studio Theatre, Brockley Jack pub
  • Date: 12th February 2025
  • Written by: Mark Stratford
  • Directed by: Mark Stratford
  • Staring: Mark Stratford

A little jewel of a piece

William Macready is one of the nineteenth century theatrical greats, heavily influenced when young by a Sarah Siddons already at the height of her skills.

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Summer 1954

  • Venue: Richmond Theatre
  • Date: 27th January 2025
  • Written by: Terence Rattigan
  • Directed by: James Dacre
  • Staring: Nathaniel Parker, Siân Phillips and Lolita Chakrabarti

A very ‘well made’ production.

Summer 1954 - two one Act Rattigan’s (Table Number Seven from Separate Tables, and The Browning Version) show the master of the ‘well made’ play at his finest, with an ensemble cast including Nathaniel Parker, Siân Phillips and Lolita Chakrabarti.

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White Christmas

  • Venue: The Mill at Sonning
  • Date: 18th January 2025
  • Written by: Irving Berlin (Music and Lyrics); Norma Krasna, Norman Panama & Melvin Frank (Original screenplay); David Eyes & Paul Blake (Book)
  • Directed by: Walter Bobbie
  • Staring: Shirley Jameson; Gabriella Williams; Nic Myers

Unseasonal Seasonality

Our last seasonal outing of this year (or rather last) is White Christmas at the Mill at Sonning.

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The Invention of Love

  • Venue: Hampstead Theatre
  • Date: 9th January 2025
  • Written by: Tom Stoppard
  • Directed by: Blanche Mcintyre
  • Staring: Simon Russell Beale; Matthew Tennyson; Stephen Boxer

Sparkling Dullness

Our first play of 2025, at the Hampstead Theatre, is a revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1997 play, The Invention of Love.

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