The Plan

Today marks the launch of our new initiative

Throughout the coming year, we'll choose some of
the worlds greatest stories and classic kids tales to present to you.

Our professional actors, guided by our director,
will devise and practice a new, entertaining way of telling them afresh.

We'll seek out friendly, relaxed, places to share them with you,
on a choice of dates, inviting everyone to -

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FOR YOUNGER AUDIECES

We aim to create a new 60-minute family theatre production for each major school holiday.

We'll regularly introduce our younger audiences to the most treasured stories ever told to children, in fun, engaging ways. Sparking a lifelong love for theatre with world myths, local legends, and modern classics such as Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland, and Pinocchio.

Priceless flights of magic and imagination that every child, from any background, should encounter, in their formative years.

FOR OLDER AUDIENCES

Later the same day, we will also present an undisputed masterpiece for older audiences to enjoy.

We'll bring the greatest plays in history back to life, not in some distant, imposing theatre building but up close in welcoming, relaxed places at the heart of our community, making the stories and characters of ancient times, of Shakespeare and more recent writers like Brecht, Lorca and Chekhov, pertinent to today's world, with their their thoughts on the same issues we face today.

FOR STUDENTS OF ALL AGES

Our selection of plays will include those currently being studied in classrooms.

Through workshops, talks and performances we'll help students gain the invaluable insights to the texts they study that can only be gained from rediscovering them in live performances.

Whilst stringent cuts in education funding and increased pressure on teachers make class trips to theatre a thing of the past we'll take a fresh look at when we schedule our shows. Currently in development, we're looking for funding and sponsorship for a new initiative AFTER SCHOOL THEATRE CLUB that will give pupils and parents the chance to see a play on their way home from school rather than be out late on a school night.

FOR SOUTH EAST LONDON

Each production will play an opening long weekend of performances at our home venue.

Over four successive weeks It will then moving on to long weekends at venues in three of our poorest neighbouring boroughs (as identified by Trust for London.)

Our final performances will be live-streamed and recorded, for non-commercial use on YouTube.

FOR OUR ARTISTS

Since Covid the landscape had become very bleak. Many careers have stopped entirely, and there's been an exodus of theatre makers from every single theatre discipline" Sam Mendes.

So, we are currently experimenting with a new way of scheduling rehearsals and performances over a series of long weekends and outside of office hours, allowing our theatre makers to practice their craft whilst maintaining permanent jobs during the working week.

We've euphemistically named this new model, with sessions on Friday evening, Saturdays, Sundays and Monday evenings, after an olde English expression for a series of extraordinary events, A MONTH OF SUNDAYS.

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FOR LITERACY