Southwick Players (24th August 2020) Lighting The Barn Red On August 11th, we lit The Barn red in solidarity with the theatre industry that has suffered a devastating impact due to the pandemic. We were just one of a number of theatres up and down the country who joined the #redalert, #wemakeevents […]
Southwick Players – 2nd March 2019 Around a year ago I directed “The Turn of the Screw” (an adaptation of the Henry James ghost story) for the Southwick Players. Working with a dream cast and crew, this dark, ambiguous story came together wonderfully and played to great houses for its 4 night run at the Barn […]
Jane Collins – Adjudicator – BHAC 2018 Drama Awards (12th December 2018) First of all I would like to say a big thank you to Brighton and Hove Arts Council for inviting me to be the adjudicator for this year’s drama awards. I had no idea what to expect – but if I am honest […]
Wick Theatre Company (30th May 2018) Back in 1948, a stage-struck young lass named Betty Carpenter persuaded the leader of the Unity Youth Club to invite two members of the Southwick Players – Elizabeth Penney and Peter Elder – to speak on the subject of drama. This generated such interest that a group called the Unity Players was formed, soon to become the Young Wick […]
The Southwick Players (5th May 2017) Sadly recently ‘Smudge’ Roberts passed away. Smudge was a long standing member of The Southwick Players and, as many of you will know, one of her stock phrases was ‘in the old days’ . Smudge was around ‘in the old days’ of The Players, and would relate stories of […]
New Venture Theatre (19th April 2017) In Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Hughie’, New York is on the cusp of the Great Depression; in its seedy underbelly, small-time gambler Erie is crawling back into his hotel after nights of drunken mourning. The Night-Clerk would rather be somewhere (and someone) else, but to his horror he finds that Erie […]
New Venture Theatre (19th April 2017) ‘The Real Inspector Hound’ is one of Stoppard’s funniest plays, a surreal comedy set in a theatre, where an Agatha Christie style whodunit is being performed and watched by two critics, Moon and Birdboot. The play within a play is a take-off of ‘The Mousetrap’, in which – in […]