As always, a number of shows at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe have strong WT connections, and we’ll be following them all… ‘The big war’s ending, but the little wars keep on going.’ With VE Day imminent, seven Wrens contemplate a seemingly warless future. Yet, suddenly faced with their own personal war, will they...
Every year the Workshop Theatre is well represented at the Edinburgh Fringe, and this year is no exception. By my count there are currently four shows with strong WT connections, but I imagine there’s a few more I’ve yet to learn about. I’ll be letting you know about them all in due course, but first,...
Former W.T. students The Dog-Eared Collective received glowing reviews in both the Sunday Times and the Fringe Review earlier this month. Alison Thomson (Sunday Times) selected DEC as her critic’s choice and the Fringe Review awarded them 4 stars. This comes ahead of their appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe. The orignal Fringe review piece can...
The Nidderdale and District Drama Festival of One Act plays, now in its 49th year, was held at the Frazer Theatre, Knaresborough in March 2011. Jan Perry’s play CLICK picked up a host of awards winning: Best Play, Artistic Originality Award, and the Audience Award for the most popular play as voted for by the...
Some of the latest news and press from The Dog-Eared Collective. ‘The Dog-Eared Collective are a refreshing change of pace in modern British comedy’ LEEDS GUIDE 13/04/11 LEEDS GUIDE REVIEW After seeing the Leeds preview of our new 2011 material, Steve Kilgour (freelance review for Leeds Guide) has published a fantastic review, including the following highlights:...
Apologies for the lack of posts recently. I hope to have some images shortly from recent productions including ‘the Woman in Black’ and ‘the Single Life of Albert Nobbs’… but for now, here’s a taster of this weekend’s Practical Essays. Share on Facebook
Last chance to see the MA production of The Maids is this evening (Wednesday 8th December) at 7pm in Studio 1 of the Workshop Theatre. Jean Genet’s The Maids caused a scandal when it opened in Paris in 1947 for its stark portrayal of seething working class discontent. This dark and brooding play depicts two...
Back in July we told you Jan Perry had been selected as a finalist in The Windsor Fringe Marriott Award for New Drama Writing 2010. A total of 213 scripts were submitted from as far afield Japan, USA, Australia, Finland, Norway, Spain, Jersey, Wales, Eire, Northern Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man and of course, England....
Cloud 9 comes to the Workshop Theatre this week. The production runs for three nights, starting tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7pm. Cloud 9 is a landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded. ‘Sharp comedy and a serious purpose are splendidly...
We have a whole bunch of dates for your diary… so write this little lot down somewhere: Starting on the 27th of September we have Cloud 9 in Studio 1. This is a Workshop Theatre student production (you’ll recall we did The Trial last year). The run will last for 3 nights, finishing on Friday...
Great Scotsman review that came in for the final two shows. It has rounded off the whole Edinburgh experience so nicely and gave us two large audiences to play with. We actually ended up on the front page, which I think is the biggest double take I’ve ever done at a newstand. Here’s the photographic evidence: ...
The Track of the Cat reviewed by ThreeWeeks www.edinburgh.threeweeks.co.uk bearplate in association with C theatre An eerie stillness consumes the dimly lit space from start to finish in this spookily compelling adaptation of Walter van Tilburg Clark’s novel, set in Sierra Nevada in 1900. The employment of an all female cast (aside from haunting music...
… this is the promo for Alcatraz. All the shows with Workshop Theatre connections are getting great reviews at the moment. If you happen to spot a review for either Clint’s Reality, Alcatraz, the Dog-Eared Collective, or Chris Fittock’s The Track of the Cat… please pass them along. Share on Facebook
“An absolute must-see in Edinburgh” by David Hutchinson for remotegoat on 12/08/10 www.remotegoat.co.uk Clint’s Reality is a hilarious new comedy from up and coming writer James Huntrods. The premise of the piece is that reality TV producer Clint has been disgraced for rigging the votes in his latest talent contest ‘Celebrity Bombshell’ in order to...
Review from The New Current www.thenewcurrent.com * * * * * Published: August 11, 2010 Alcatraz portrays a woman who works in a hotel, recording conversations of previous guests of a particular room. Not a play for the simplest of folk, it follows the deep psychotic interactions that she shares with 4 guests in particular,...
