Upcoming SLT Productions
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (adapted by Steve Canny and John Nicholson)
7.30pm 25-27 July and 1-3 August
2.30pm 27 & 28 July, 3 August
This West End hit adaptation takes all the familiar elements of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tale through an exhilarating ride of ridiculously funny performances, witty dialogue and buckets of chaos. Expect the unexpected in this side-splitting Sherlock story.
Director: Lisa Thomas
SLT Summer Shorts 2024
New writing
8pm 13-17 August
A five-night run of 10 short plays which has become a fixture in the SLT summer calendar, the SLT Summer Shorts will be a celebration of new writing. Over 60 budding playwrights from SLT and beyond have registered to submit texts on the theme of "Storm" for this year's programme. Once again, following a bequest from a former member, there will be a prize for the play judged the best in show by the audience. Last year's winner, Mr Tuesday by Charlotte Benstead, went on to be staged as part of The Platform, at the Bread & Roses Theatre in Clapham.
Shorts Curators: Cal Beckett, Anna Callender and Guy Jones
The Kitchen Sink
By Tom Wells
10-14 September
An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes. Amid the dreaming, the dramas and the dirty dishes, something has to give. But will it be Kath or the kitchen sink? Things aren't going to plan for one family in Withernsea, Yorkshire.
Pieces are falling off Martin's milk float as quickly as he's losing customers and something's up with Kath's kitchen sink. Billy is pinning his hopes of a place at art college on a revealing portrait of Dolly Parton, whilst Sophie's dreams of becoming a ju-jitsu teacher might be disappearing down the plughole.
Director: David Chappell
Linck and Mülhahn
By Ruby Thomas
24 -28 September
It is life's great aim. To find a way to be honest with oneself, even as the world pretends around you. Dashing soldier Anastasius Linck has no intention of falling in love, but a chance encounter with the rebellious Catharina Mülhahn changes everything.
As they begin to forge a relationship that breaks boundaries and rejects the rigid rules of their society, they find themselves confronted by a world determined to tear them apart.
Director: Jo Boniface
EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE SOON
Mother Courage and her Children
by Bertolt Brecht
8 -12 October
Mother Courage is considered by some to be the greatest play of the 20th century, and perhaps also the greatest anti-war play of all time. It follows the fortunes of Anna Fierling, nicknamed Mother Courage, a wily canteen woman with the Swedish Army, who is determined to make her living from the war.
Over the course of the play, she loses all three of her children, Schweizerkas, Eilif, and Kattrin, to the very war from which she tried to profit.
Director: Tom Melly
EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE SOON
Bleak Expectations
By Mark Evans
22 - 26 October
Adapted from a BBC Radio 4 comedy series, Mark Evans' play has been described as the riotous story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin! And, crucially, had he lived for another 152 years.
Follow half-orphan Pip's extraordinary exploits with sisters Pippa and Poppy and best friend Harry Biscuit, as they attempt to escape the calculating clutches of the dastardly Mr Gently Benevolent, defeat the hideous Hardthrasher siblings, and deflect disaster at every turn! Will evil be vanquished by virtue?
Director: Tom Mathias
CAST TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
Four Old Broads
By Leslie Kimbell
5 - 9 November
Unfortunately, things have not been very pleasant at Magnolia Place Assisted Living since Nurse Pat Jones began working there. The newest resident, Imogene Fletcher, is suddenly losing her memory. Maude Jenkins is obsessed with her favorite soap opera and planning her own funeral. Sam Smith, retired Elvis impersonator, keeps trying to bed every woman in the building.
A mystery unfolds with laughter as the gals try to outsmart the evil Nurse Pat Jones and figure out why so many residents have been moved to “the dark side,” what exactly IS that mysterious pill, and what happened to Doctor Head?
CAST TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
Director: Saskia Van 't Hoff
Auditions: 21 & 22 July
A View From The Bridge
By Arthur Miller
19 - 23 November
In one of Miller's most intimate dramas, Eddie, a longshoreman (or dock worker) struggles with his possessive feelings toward his niece in the face of her impending marriage. Immigration, love, and possession all come to a head in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Director: Janine Wunsche
Auditions: 21 July and 11/12 August
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe - Christmas Show
By CS Lewis and Glynn Robbins
5 - 8 and 12 - 14 December (including matinees)
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy embark on a magical mystery tour to the Land of Narnia through the wardrobe. There they encounter the wicked White Witch, representing the forces of evil, and the King of the Beasts, Aslan the lion, representing all that is good and right. Will the White Witch be defeated, allowing good to triumph over evil in the time-honoured way?
Director: Sally Toynton
Auditions: To be announced
Little Women The Musical
Book: Allan Knee
Lyrics: Mindi Dickstein
Music: Jason Howland
21 - 25 January 2025
Based on the semi-autobiographical, two-volume novel by Louisa May Alcott, Little Women The Musical focuses on the four March sisters: traditional Meg, wild, aspiring writer Jo, timid Beth and romantic Amy, and their beloved Marmee, at home in Concord, Massachusetts, while their father is away serving during the Civil War. Jo’s melodramatic short stories, written in her attic, recreate their lives and lead us through a heart-warming and tragic journey through the lives of these Little Women.
Director: Florence Henderson