I’m delighted to announce that the Dog-Eared Collective (Workshop Theatre graduates) have agreed to bring this year’s Edinburgh show to the Workshop Theatre. All WT staff, students, and friends are welcome to attend this FREE show. It’s going to be a lunchtime performance and the curtain goes up at 1.30pm in the Banham Theatre. The...
If you’re in London over the next few weeks, you might want to stop by the Arcola Theatre, where recent graduate Amy Powell Yeates is producing The Queen of Spades. Details below… What is our life? A game! Hermann will stop at nothing to discover the secret of the three card gambling trick that will...
The following review is from the Edinburgh Reporter; the original can be found here. Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – W.R.E.N.S August 4, 2011 by John Kennedy Without a doubt one of the hot-ticket certainties for this year’s Fringe has to be the quaintly named Tiny Teapot Theatre’s production of Edinburgh born, ex-Wren, Anne V. McGravie’s W.R.E.N.S....
Anarchic sketch troupe The Dog-Eared Collective want to change your life. One sketch at time. After gaining four stars from Chortle at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe for their show Joyride – The Dog-Eared Collective are back with riotous sketch fest ‘You’re Better Than This’ which previewed to critical acclaim at the Brighton Fringe: CRITICS CHOICE...
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 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...
“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 by Marissa Burgess from Chortle www.chortle.co.uk * * * * Having seen the Dog Eared guys’ shows for the past the last two years – and awarded them a two-star review each time – I was really hoping they would pull it out the proverbial bag this year for another star. A target, it...
It seems the name Aireborne Theatre carries some weight on the streets of Edinburgh. Today, for the second day in a row, audiences were queuing around the block to get in to an Aireborne production. Today saw the preview of Alcatraz, a slick, stylish and atmospheric piece of theatre, the result of a collaboration between Lucy...
I’ve just this second come from the preview performance of Clint’s Reality, and I’m delighted to say it was a huge success. An eager audience queued all the way up the cobbled entrance to the Underbelly (no doubt as a result of a concentrated campaign on the Royal Mile by the cast and crew) and...
And we’re off. Previews opened today in Edinburgh, but the shows that really count start tomorrow (Thursday) in the Underbelly, shortly after mid day. Clint’s Reality are up first at 12.35 in the Belly Button, followed shortly after by former WT students the Dog-Eared Collective at 15.10 in the White Belly. Alcatraz previews a day...
CLINT’S REALITY Aireborne Theatre Venue: Belly Button Clint is a media icon disgraced for rigging his reality TV shows. He has one evening to save his career, rekindle his marriage, silence his mistress and overturn the apathy of his disinterested son. Expect rushed decisions, hushed revisions and blushed derisions in a world that is anything...
ALCATRAZ Aireborne Theatre Venue: Belly Button One moment will create, destroy or alter perspectives. ‘Alcatraz’ explores the perforations and cracks in the walls of everyday perception. This new piece of writing focuses on the experiences of four very individual characters, each locked into their own world, but impacting and imposing upon one another without knowledge...
On Saturday 17th July the D.E.C. will be at The Carriageworks, Leeds to stage a Dog-Eared party performance ‘smack down’ to raise money for their comedy endeavours with… Barnaby Brown – The Romp-a-Long 2010 – An interactive comedy experience! First up they’ll perform their critically acclaimed Dickensian spoof Barnaby Brown, featuring an A-list orphan, a...
The graduates from last year’s Theatre Studies class are having a nice little reunion on the 5th of December in Leeds. It would be lovely to see some of the current Workshop Theatre students/staff there to say hi. Get in touch! Click here to see the Workshop Theatre 2006-2009 Video! Ben Share on Facebook
