Playwriting classes at the Brockley Jack

The Brockley Jack team writes:Ever wanted to write a successful vehicle for yourself or an actor to play but didn't know where to start? This workshop gives you the tools to create and find the essence of your stage persona, alongside exploring different approaches of how best to tell your story on stage. (14 participants ...

Yam Yam!

We’re in the midst of an ongoing project here at the Albany around food – chickens that have taken up residence in the garden and allotments have sprung up. As part of this we’re about to launch Yam Yam!, a six week festival of performances, workshops and arts activities all revolving around food.A food fight, ...

Actors Reading Writers 3

Fake piano maker needed

Darren from the Brockley Jack Theatre writes:I am producing the Off West End premiere of the musical Love Story at the Brockley Jack Theatre this Autumn with my own company. We would like to design a unit that when assembled looks like a grand piano, but that can be easily dismantled and its pieces used ...

The Telegraph Hill Panto Auditions

Sanjit writes:It's Panto time again on Telegraph Hill. We've been hard at it, polishing puns, winkling in innuendo, and generally working up a lather and we think we've finally got it just right. Now it's the turn of lots of lovely people to make it come alive, so we are holding auditions:Telegraph Hill Centre – ...

The Brockley Jack Autumn Season

Darren from the Brockley Jack Theatre writes:We've just announced our Autumn Season here at the Jack. There's something for everyone from Shakespeare to musical theatre, presented by Jack regular visiting theatre companies. Tickets for all shows are now on sale and we expect it to be a busy and exciting few months!Here is the link ...

Twitter – The Stage Spectacular

The Albany, Deptford14th - 21st June - On-line Interactive Rehearsals21st June - 7pm PerformanceAmpersand Media presents Storylines, a scratch production at The Albany in Deptford.Storylines is a different way of creating a theatre piece. Inspired by news stories running on the very first day of rehearsals members of the public will form and shape the ...

Write Now 4 at the Brockley Jack

Darren from the Brockley Jack Theatre writes:Our new writing festival Write Now 4 kicks off this weekend with seven short plays based on the theme of Legacy.Winners: Melanie Pennant, Vinay Patel and Martin McNamaraThen over the next three weeks we will be presenting staged readings, Q&A sessions and a full production of a new play ...

Kate Tempest wins Ted Hughes prize

Well done Kate Tempest for winning the Ted Hughes award for innovation in poetry last night. The prize was awarded to her by Carol Ann Duffy in a ceremony at the Saville Club.The award was in recognition of her work Brand New Ancients, which relocates old gods to modern London. Brand New Ancients was co-commissioned ...

Oh What a Lovely War: the First World War and a New Cross Church

This weekend a cast  and crew of around two hundred are taking part in the Telegraph Hill Festival Community Production of Oh What a Lovely War. The musical about the First World War was developed by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop and first premiered almost exactly fifty years ago on 19 March  1963.This might ...