SLT Write Club is back! Are you a budding playwright? Have you been working on a script that you’d like others to read? Or are you an actor/director who loves the idea of bringing new writing to the stage for the first time? Do you have an idea for a piece of theatre, but aren’t sure how to progress with it? Following the success of our short writing courses over the past year, we’re starting a monthly meet-up for SLT […]
Social event • 15 October, 8pm On Tuesday, 15 October as a part of our open evening (for new members and anyone who wants to know more about SLT and what goes on at the theatre) we will be screening three short films about key aspects of membership activities. All three films were shot in the last 6 months and offer an insight into life at, and inside the walls of, the South London Theatre: Volunteers SLT secured funding by […]
Director Lisa Thomas introduces Jez Butterworth’s The Night Heron, which opens on Tuesday, 8 October. Jez Butterworth’s reputation may well play a part in attracting audiences to this show – why do you think that is? He creates very engaging and complex characters with multiple facets, and gives them inventive and often hilarious dialogue and situations. He also writes plays about things that no-one else really does – they feel very original. Audiences loved his breakout play Mojo for its […]
The next open mic night will be on Wednesday 13 November. The next SLT Open Mic & Showcase, will be from 7.30 – 10.30pm in the South London Theatre bar. A chance for budding musicians, stand-up comics, poets and general ne’er-do-wells to try out their material or hone live skills, whilst enjoying the ambience and extremely reasonably-priced refreshments from the members’ bar. Send a message to event coordinators Michael Marsden or Katrina Rublowsky if you want to hold a slot, […]
December 12-15 & 18-21, 2019 Running time: TBC Using only Charles Dickens’ extraordinary words and an ensemble of eight actors, the quintessential story of ghosts, greed and goodwill is given boisterous new life in this chilling, contemporary, fresh production. Director: Mark Ireson Cast: Elena Markham Izi Miller Josiah Phoenix Justin Bikram Ross McKenzie Simon Gleisner Susan Stillman Tom Melly
Director Jo Boniface talks about Amelia Bullmore’s ‘Di and Viv and Rose’, opening on Tuesday, 24 September. What inspired you to choose this play? I first saw Di and Viv and Rose when I started a new job at Hampstead Theatre (I’ve been happily there for 7 years now) on the Main Stage, starring Tamzin Outhwaite, Gina McKee and Anna Maxwell Martin. And I loved it. I think I saw it 6 or 7 times. It was the first time […]
Last night SLT’s Theatre Committee (TC) announced the 2020 Spring/Summer Season. The bar was packed with old and new members who were keen to see what plays have been selected for the period between mid-March and the beginning of August next year. Theatre Committee announced the directors one at a time and each had the opportunity to speak about the plays that they are going to direct and their vision for staging them. After the presentation, most people stayed in […]
Mark Ireson announces his cast for Dickens’s classic seasonal story A Christmas Carol , adapted by Neil Bartlett, which will be staged in December. “The script of Dickens’s ghost story of Christmas includes at least 62 parts between the ensemble cast, including some of the best known characters in literature. Assistant director Rob Wallis and I were delighted to have so many versatile performers come to the auditions. After much ghostly screaming, carol singing and eating gruel at the auditions, […]
Seeking Summer Submission Theatre Committee are currently in the final stages of confirming the Spring/Summer 2020 season (Announcement Tuesday 17th September 8:30pm SLT Bar) but have decided to hold back the final slot of the season as we would love to find a family show with which to end the season and go into the school holidays with. Having a family friendly show at the end of July has been an incredible success for the past two years engaging with […]
Season Announcement – 8.30pm, September 17th Date for the diary!! We’ll be announcing our next season from 8.30pm on Tuesday 17th September in the members’ bar at the Old Fire Station. Once again we are combining it with New Members Night, so please join us to find out what we have planned, and show our potential new members what a welcoming and exciting community SLT is. Come along and be one of the first to see and hear what we […]