Steel Magnolias - by Robert Harling 21st-25th February
February
Steel Magnolias - by Robert Harling
21st - 25th February 2017 @ 7.45pm
Why friendship really matters
Set in a beauty shop in Louisiana, Steel Magnolias is a comedy-drama about the friendship and lives of six women.
Taking place over three years, we see the friends, who are all very different, face challenges, happy times and transformations, the constant in their lives is each other.
Through laughter and tears, Steel Magnolias is a story that can’t fail to move and remind you why friendship really matters.
March
Audition: Love in the Time of Tinder by PTCs New Writing Team
Monday 6th March @ 7.30pm
Wednesday 8th March @ 7.30pm
Moonlight & Magnolias by Ron Hutchinson
14th - 18th March 2017 @ 7.45pm
Hollywood 1939. David O. Selznick isn’t happy with how things are going on his production of Gone with the Wind so he calls in Ben Hecht to rewrite the screenplay and a new director Victor Fleming. However the rewrite needs to take place in five days and Hecht hasn’t even read the book! So he locks himself and the other two into his office and he and Fleming act out the story while Hecht writes! Moonlight and Magnolias is Ron Hutchinson’s comical take on what happened in that office over those five days..
I Am England by David Lane
Thursday 23rd - Saturday 25th March.
7.45pm and 3pm Saturday matinee
The future of the nation now lies in the hands of those who were once too young to have their say on its current state. Can pinning our hopes on a poster-boy hero tame the masses? Could the country be saved from collapse? Will the next generation get their voices heard? Written in 2012, and inspired by Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, I Am England started life as an exploration of a hypothetical post-Europe Great Britain. Five years down the line, this play perhaps resonates more deeply now than ever before. Recommended for ages 13+.
Audition: As You Like It
Audition Dates: 26th March @ 6.30pm &
27th March @ 7.30pm
Recalls: 30th March @ 7.30pm
April
Easter Holiday Projects
Giants & Dream Jars & Hansel & Gretel's Great Adventure
Monday 3rd - Friday 7th April,
Monday 10th - Wednesday 12th April
Projects for those aged 4-11
Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett
4th - 8th April 2017 @ 7.45pm
When Kenneth and Sandra meet in 1967 they intend to live life by their own rules. But forty years of drink, drugs and arguing later, have their ideals survived or does their liberation now look like irresponsibility? This sharply-observed modern classic from the Olivier award-winning Mike Bartlett (Doctor Foster, King Charles III) asks whether love is really all you need.
May
My Mother Said I Never Should
by Charlotte Keatley
9th- 13th May @ 7.45pm (Sat Mat @ 3pm)
First performed in Manchester in 1978 this moving play has since been translated into 22 languages and performed all over the world from London to Japan. The story moves through the lives of four generations of an ordinary northern family – grandmother, mother, daughter and granddaughter - and is a warm, poignant story of growing up, growing old, and ultimately of love.
Love in the Time of Tinder
By New Writing
Tuesday 23rd – Saturday 27th May
7.45pm, Main Stage
Meeting new people is hard. Falling in love is even harder. In a city filled with people, how do you find that special person when life is moving so fast? Dating is complicated, emotional and maybe even the most fun you can have with your clothes on...or off! PTC New Writing’s latest production brings a collection of exciting new works to the stage; talking about love, lust and finding ‘the one’ in the modern world.
June
As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Tuesday 20th – Saturday 24th June
7.45pm, Main Stage
Love blossoms among the trees as lovers Rosalind and Orlando are banished to the Forest of Arden. Together with shepherds and exiled courtiers they become enmeshed in a web of romance and deception as wise-cracking, fast-talking Rosalind puts gentle Orlando’s affection to the test. In the enchanted woods anything can happen in Shakespeare’s joyous cross-dressing romantic comedy.
July
As You Like It (Open Air Performances)
By William Shakespeare
Saturday 1st, Sunday 2nd, Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th July
3pm, Putney’s Old Burial Ground, Upper Richmond Road, SW15
The performance will take place in Putney Old Burial Ground, which is situated just minutes from Putney Arts Theatre on Upper Richmond Road. We recommend audience members bring a picnic blanket to sit on (and a picnic, if they like). Tickets should be collected from the theatre and the theatre bar will be open for refreshments.
Summer Holiday Projects
Don't Feed The Plant!, The Land of Oz & Misadventures or Dr Seuss
Monday 24th - Friday 28th July,
Monday 31st July - Friday 4th August,
Monday 7th - Wednesday 9th August
Projects for those aged 4-16
In Basildon (A Rehearsed Reading) By David Eldridge
Saturday 29th July
7.45pm, Main Stage
“People always get the wrong idea about Essex, don’t they?”. Len’s on his deathbed and the family gather to say their farewells. His sisters still aren’t speaking after nearly 20 years. His nephew is trying for a baby, and a bigger house, while his best mate, Ken, remembers Basildon when it was still a village. Putney Theatre Company’s rehearsed reading series continues with this family drama exploring inheritance, family myth and East End fable.
February 20, 2017