Blog - Greenwich Theatre

29th June 2022

Mike Bartlett Play, An Intervention Heads To The Top Of The Class

It seems that not only in popular culture, playwright Mike Bartlett could well be top of the class as part of the educational curriculum, well at least that’s what Helen Ramsay thinks! “I came across Mike Bartlett at uni. He’s seriously great for monologues and I don’t think any acting…

28th June 2022

Mike Bartlett Play An Intervention, Analyses The Complexities of Human Relationships

It’s so good to be working again with actor Lauren Drennan. Lauren worked with us before on a previous in-house production, Alarms & Excursions, a play by Michael Frayn. Lauren has also worked at The Young Shakespeare Company in The Tempest and Hamlet in 2016 and 2017 respectively, whilst in…

22nd June 2022

Greenwich Theatre’s Relaxed Performances For Treasure Island and Robin Hood

We pride ourselves on providing theatre that is accessible for all our audiences and as such one of the elements of our productions we offer are relaxed performances for our Treasure Island summer production and Robin Hood Christmas Pantomime productions. Running from 19th August to 4th September 2022, Treasure Island…

20th June 2022

New In-House Production Update! An Intervention Trailer

We’re really keen to bring a well-know Mike Bartlett play to Greenwich Theatre. The play questions our perceptions about our friendships. In it, An Intervetnion studies the external ethics of war, politics and beliefs, which collide as two people who thought they knew each other, see their friendship tested to…

8th June 2022

Mike Bartlett’s Intervention Tests The Bonds Of Friendship

An Intervention, a play by Mike Bartlett has a familiar premise. Two dear friends share a deep, long-standing bond. However, the volatile world of political affairs enters their relationship to test the integrity between them. A war breaks out in another country and their beliefs about loyalty, kindred-ship and conflict…

25th April 2022

James Haddrell Challenges Drama School Practice and Government Arts Education Policy

The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) announced earlier this April that it was to close for good. It cited that the school was no longer “financially viable” as the reasons for its closure. Starting in 1979, ALRA had campuses in Wigan and Wandsworth, south London, but even after…

6th April 2022

The Queen Of Hearts Cast Are Nominated For UK Pantomime Association Awards!

Great News! Some of the members of our pantomime, The Queen Of Hearts, have been nominated for categories in the newly formed UK Pantomime Association Awards. Formed in 2021, the Association was created to recognise the historic past and to celebrate pantomime’s practice and participants. The Queen Of Hearts was…

5th April 2022

“Children are our most honest critics” James Haddrell on Greenwich Theatre’s Children’s Easter Programme

We’re pleased to be able to bring you a packed programme of engaging productions over the Easter holidays for you and your family. Here’s what our Artistic Director, James Haddrell had to say about how we bring the best in family theatre to Greenwich. Whenever I watch a show at…

18th March 2022

“The play is an angry cry against inequality” James Haddrell speaks on the power of women in political theatre

“…At the moment I am half way through rehearsals for a new production of Chris Bush’s Faustus: That Damned Woman with final year drama students at St Mary’s University in Twickenham (playing as part of a festival from March 29 – April 8). The play reimagines the story of a man who…

15th March 2022

2022 CHILDREN’S EASTER THEATRE PROGRAMME AT GREENWICH THEATRE

Greenwich Theatre invites you to their Children’s Easter Programme… Fancy meeting The Gruffalo or Margot & Mr Whatsit! Why not visit some endangered creepy crawlies with us at The Bug Hotel or experience some infant opera by HurlyBurly Theatre? One of the things that upset us most as we closed…