Director Tom Melly introduces his adaptation of the classic tale of the little boy who never grew up, opening on 23 July. Rehearsal photos taken by the cast. What memories do you have of Peter Pan from when you were a child?? Peter Pan (or Peter Panic, as I generally refer to it) is my second stab at directing, after last year’s Toad of Toad Hall. These two plays form my earliest memories of ‘proper’ theatre, and invoke a Proustian […]
Jo Boniface announces her cast for Amelia Bullmore’s Di and Viv and Rose, which will be staged at the end of September. “I am delighted to present my three leading ladies. I had such a great pool of actors to choose from, and I am very grateful to those who attended the auditions and call backs; as a director you know you have a good show when the talent from all auditionees bursts out in the room at you. Rehearsals […]
I was very sorry to hear of the death of Vince Oliver and sadder that SLT has only just received the news. Apparently Vince died last year in January 2018. He had had MS for over 15 years and had been in a wheelchair for a long time. Vince joined SLT in 1979 and stayed until 1982. In that time, he acted in 6 plays, including The Day after the Fair, (1980), in which he had a good role of […]
Director Lee Ridgeway announces his cast for our November musical Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: “After quite a few sleepless nights, I can now share with you the cast for Sweeney Todd. There were so many talented people at the auditions and I would like to thank everyone who attended for their patience. The audition process was quite a tricky one, but all the auditionees did a great job. Additionally I’d like to thank my creative team […]
Our members are at the heart of everything we do at SLT. Everyone, from those that manage the day to day running of the organisation, to those that tread the boards are members. Our members staff the theatre bar nightly, greet the public on show nights, manage the wardrobe of 4,000 costumes and toil tirelessly in backstage roles to create the magic that happens on stage. We are nothing without our members. In the first of this series of interviews […]
Saturday, 20 July, 7.30pm Pull on your trivia trousers, strap on your boffin bonnets and sharpen your pedantry pencils, it’s time for another SLT Quiz at our wonderful Members Club bar. As well as the picture puzzle sheet and the music round, there will be rounds with the usual cryptic clues as to their themes, in order to strategise around when to play your team’s double points joker. Stand by for the cryptic crossword clues to the round themes, to […]
Guy Jones announces his cast for Vinay Patel’s Sticks and Stones, our first show in the new season opening in September. “To cast a play where the author specifically states that they deliberately, “veered away from specifying concrete character attributes such as race, class or gender” left the field quite open for the mix of familiar and new faces which assembled for auditions. Three … humans gave particularly cracking interpretations of the audition pieces and showed a real enthusiasm for […]
Director Siobhán Campbell and her cast of 3 introduce themselves in advance of their show which opens on 2 July. Shiv – what drew you to the play? I was handed this play by a friend who suggested that I might enjoy it. I read it, found myself liking it and thinking it was really current. Then I looked at the info at the front and realised it was written in 1988. Somehow that made it more current. The play […]
Submissions deadline: Midnight 15 July, 2019 Submission time is here!!!!! The NEW Submission period is now open until midnight 15 July for the Spring/Summer season performance dates which take place between March and July 2020. Submissions are also welcome for Autumn/Winter 2020/21 if the production needs the additional time or planning. We welcome submissions with as wide a range as possible. Don’t be afraid if you think your suggestion may be a little too leftfield or outside of the box […]
July 23-27, 2019 Running time: 105 minutes Canine child-care, pirate-prosthetics, horologically-challenged reptiles, and a boy with a serious hormone deficiency, not to mention a terrible case of ADHD. A strange, charming, and surprisingly blood-thirsty classic of children’s theatre – so be prepared for a radical, modern staging! Director: Tom Melly Cast: Mrs Darling/Adult Wendy – Audrey Lindsay Wendy/Jane – Róisín Deady Mr Darling – Martin Copland-Gray Michael – Alice Kiff John – David Clements Peter Pan – Laarni Cornista-Hollebon Liza – Orla Loughran Hayes Lost Boy […]