Welcome to the
GARDEN SUBURB THEATRE
Coming up:
Audition for
STEEL MAGNOLIAS
Sunday 27 June
Here you will find information about our current and past productions, about the company itself, how to join us or simply come and see one of our productions.
If you have any questions, contact us.
Click
HERE for a complete GST calendar of events
for the 2009-2010 season
VENUES: For maps of how to get to our venues, click here
SOON
July 2010
9 - 17 July 2010
THE RECRUITING OFFICER
Little Oak Wood Open Air Theatre
Info: 020 7723 6609
Tickets £7.50/£6 concessions
Steel Magnolias
December 2010
Journey's End
March 2011
HONK!
NEWS
19 April
GST Newsreel #5.
Another so soon, to catch up with myself having missed one and also because of course this week we have….. drum roll… Educating Rita! Don’t forget to come and see what I’m sure will be an excellent show. Tony has rather brilliantly got us a piece in the Hendon and Finchley Times this week (I know from experience how hard this is to achieve) and they’re using one of my photos of Fran so I’m doubly pleased!
GST events
coming up
Coming up in the next
fortnight (19 April – 3 May ) we have the following GST events
Thursday 22 – Saturday 24 April
Educating Rita
Venue: Henrietta Barnett School
Cost: Free to members
Time: 8pm
Book your tickets now on 020
7723 6609
Sunday 25 April
Clear-up Sunday, Educating Rita
Venue: Henrietta Barnett School
Cost: Free to members
Time: 10am
Usually followed by a pub lunch…
Sunday 16 May
Unrehearsed Playreading: The play is Arthur Miller's 1968
family drama 'The Price'
Venue: Mulberry Court, East
Finchley
This will be a playreading with a difference. Anne Mansell, our host for the evening, lives in a retirement home and she has enterprisingly arranged for the reading to take place in the communal lounge. The other residents are being invited. This means that the performance will be semi-public, in a much bigger space than usual and with potentially a much larger audience. Mulberry Court is at the corner of East Finchley High Road and Bedford Road: go to the Bedford Road entrance. If you plan to be there please email us.
Sat 5 June
BDDF Awards Night: details to follow
Special requests
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No special requests this time.
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Potters Bar Theatre Company are putting on the musical CAROUSEL - featuring well known songs such as "You'll Never Walk Alone", "Mister Snow", "If I Loved You", "June Is Busting Out All Over" and "When The Children Are Asleep".Carousel runs from April 20th -24th at 7.45 p.m. each evening plus matinee on Saturday 24th April at 2.45 p.m. at Wyllyotts Theatre, Potters Bar.
Tickets available from 07985 542204 and from their website www.pottersbartheatrecompany.co.uk
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23 – 29 May, Incognitos present Barefoot in the ParkTicket Prices : £9 non-members, £8 members, £5 students.
Manager : David Longstaff
Phone : 0791 287 5700
Email : incognito.theatre.group@googlemail.com
On-line Booking : http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Incognito
22 March
Greetings to all GST members and
welcome to GST Newsreel #3.
Although we were successful in casting the main
parts for this summer's production of `The Recruiting Officer' following last
week's audition, a number of smaller and walk-on parts remain to be filled. A
second audition for these parts only will therefore be held at St Margaret's
Church Hall, Victoria Avenue, London N3 starting at 7.30pm on Sunday 11 April.
The main parts to be filled are those of Lucy (Melinda's maid), Rose (a country
wench), Bullock (Rose's brother), Appletree and Pearmain (rustics). Audition
pieces D, G and H, which can be found on the website, apply. Other parts with
lines include a Constable, a member of the mob and a couple of servants. There
are also opportunities for people who wish for non-speaking roles, mostly as
part of a mob. There is scope for doubling up and I hope to use most of the
actors in the smaller parts as stage crew to bring on tables, chairs etc.
If you are interested, please turn up to the audition, even if it's for a
non-speaking role. If you are interested but cannot attend, please let either
John Colmans (Director) or Alicia Crisp (Production Assistant) know as soon as
possible.
email us
Coming up in the next fortnight (23
March – 5 April) we have the following GST events:
Saturday 27 March – Rehearsed
Reading, The
House of Bernarda Alba
Directed by John Dansey
Time: 7.30pm
Wednesday 31 March – pre Isle of
Man public performance of Twelfth Night
Venue:
St Margaret’s Church Hall, Victoria Avenue, London N3
Cost: Free of charge to all.
Time: 8pm
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Does anybody have two lifejackets that we could borrow for Twelfth Night,
please? If so please email me
email mary and I’ll arrange to pick them up.
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Mark and Sarah Overall will be running the London Marathon on April 25 in aid of the
North London Hospice. If you would like to sponsor them you can do so online at
http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=thefantasticfour
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Laura Allen (Viola in Twelfth Night) is appearing in Seussical the Musical
this week at the artsdepot in North Finchley.
Wednesday 24th -Saturday
27th March 7.30pm,
Saturday 27th March 2010 2.30pm.
http://tinyurl.com/yjplmjw
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Lou
Rogers (Terry’s daughter-in-law) is producing Britains’s Got Bhangra, opening at
the Theatre Royal Stratford East on 17 April
https://stratfordeast.ticketsolve.com/shows/23497850/events
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If you enjoyed The Three Musketeers and have a free week over Easter you may be
interested in joining a Hollywood swashbuckling course from 5 – 10 April in
Exeter. Full details from Ruth Cooper Brown on
ruth@rc-annie.com
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Not theatre-related but Katie Davies from the Ham & High (who are excellent at helping
us out by publicising our shows in the paper) has asked me to pass on
information about a debate between the prospective parliamentary candidates for
Finchley and Golders Green. Thursday April 8, 7pm, admission free. Location: Ivy
House, North End Road, NW11
http://www.ljcc.org.uk/events/genre/43-discussion.html
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Tuesday 6 April: Twelfth Night at the MADF Easter Festival of
Plays
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Sat/Sun 17/18 April: Set building, Educating Rita
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22 –
24 April, Educating Rita
· 14-22 May John Querfurth will be appearing in David Copperfield for the Company of Ten in St Albans – Box Office: 01727 857861. More details closer to the time
Twelfth Night and Educating Rita are still both in
rehearsal, contact me or Ros Berg (treasurer@gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk)
respectively for times and venues if you’d like to come along and watch.
Photos of The Three Musketeers are available for viewing, download and printing. If you would like to view photos and download them to keep or print, use this link http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/marymusker/ThreeMusketeers# Alternatively, here’s a link to the same photos on Snapfish where you can order prints directly but not download http://www3.snapfish.co.uk/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=2753979006/a=25100925/
Greetings to all GST members and welcome to
GST Newsreel #2 – with thanks to Hannah Arnaud, one of our junior members,
for coming up with the new name.
Here’s a link to the audition page on the GST
website where you can view the available parts and download audition pieces.
http://www.gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk/auditions.htm
If you’d like me to include anything, email me!
13 Feb 2010. Three Musketeers coming up very soon.... LOTS of fighting practice going on; see photos HERE.
March 2010 newsletter can be downloaded HERE.
09 November: Download the latest newsletter HERE - complete with review of Our Country's Good and news about the GST Christmas Party... also a downloadable copy of the Three Musketeers audition notice HERE.
13 October: Audition details for The Three Musketeers now available on our Twelfth Night audition details now available
28 May: News about our Murder Mystery Evening on Saturday 6 June
MURDER WITHIN TENT A camper on holiday at a remote campsite has been found dead. Whodunnit? The remaining campers are interrogated during an evening of suspense, laughter and thrills.
7.30 pm at Finchley Youth Theatre, 142 High Road East Finchley.
£5 admisson covers to cost of snack supper, drinks on sale.
Compere Tony Newton as "Andy Field" campsite proprietor with suspects including the Lanes, the Bergs, Mirrie, Toby, Simon, Sybil, Geoff, Tezza, Alicia and Ashley.
19 May 2009:
... in Social News: This summer's Blanket Banquet is now confirmed for Sunday 26th July. Put it in your diaries now, and start practicing your cricket!
... in Audition News: The audition notice for Our Country's Good is now available on the Audition page.
...in Show news: A New Venture for GST. We are moving into the heartlands of Barnet with performances of 'Our Country's Good' at the Old Bull Arts Centre after the run at Henrietta Barnet School. This will be an exciting challenge for designer, stage crew and actors to adapt from a large school hall to the more intimate theatre with a thrust stage.The Old Bull is a community theatre and we hope to attract new audiences for our shows.
...in Other News: Heading to the Edinburgh Fringe this August. Members of the GST are taking taking two plays to the Edinburgh Fringe and hope that as many members as possible will make the journey north to support them.
If you haven't been to the Fringe before you don't know what you're missing! Following the rehearsed play reading of "Time Share", Terry Rogers has substantially re-written the piece which is now going to be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe at the Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art.
For those who do not know the story, the plot is as follows: " Foul whisperings are abroad. Malcolm discovers the apartment next door is occupied by Macbeth, but no one believes him. What starts as a relaxing holiday in the Spanish sun escalates into a bloody battle with the neighbours from hell."
In this black comedy Malcolm and Simon work together and one of them is in line for promotion in the family firm. Simon and his wife Vicky have inherited a timeshare in Spain and invite Malcolm and his wife Judy to join them for a holiday. The men anxiously wait to hear from their boss Duncan who has got the top job. From the outset there is tension. News that Duncan has disappeared is topped when Malcolm discovers they are living next door to Macbeth and his wife. Gradually all four of them are inexorably dragged in to the Shakespearean tragedy.
Will they be able to extricate themselves or will one of them ending up having to kill Macbeth?
It previews from 6 - 8 August and runs until 31st [except 18th]
And that's not all. John Colmans is joining former members David Brown and Eugene Smith in "The Wild Goose Chase" by John Fletcher.
Collaborations with Shakespeare aside (Two Noble Kinsmen, Henry VIII) John Fletcher’s work is unjustly neglected. Here’s a rare chance to see his 1621 battle of the sexes comedy. Virtually unperformed for over 300 years, it shows that where men, women and commitment are concerned, little has changed over the centuries.
The venue is the Quaker Meeting House and it runs from August 17-29 (not 23).
Hopefully some members will make the journey north to see both shows
5 May: Further photos from our successful trip to the Isle of Man at Easter are now available on the Breaking the Code page.
22 April. Alan Ayckbourn's play Time Of My Life is THIS WEEK - book tickets now on 020 7723 6609. This is our entry into the Barnet Borough Drama Awards for 2009. Further details in the current newsletter.
Also this week: Adam Sutcliffe is appearing as Merriman in The Importance of Being Earnest at Questors Theatre Ealing.
And... calling all Tap dancers - TapHeart, an American Tap workshop, with Rusty Frank (one of the US's best known tap teachers), is taking place over the late Bank Holiday Weekend. Download a flier here.
19 April: Isle of Man success! Our now almost annual trip to to the Manx Amateur Drama Festival resulted in our best-ever results. Breaking The Code, originally seen last December Upstairs at the Gatehouse, was voted the audience's favourite show of the week and Richard Kinder was awarded Best Actor for his performance as Alan Turing. Awards also went to Fred Griessen for Best Supporting Actor and Paula Morris for Best Supporting Actress. See photos on the MADF website.
06 April: Latest copy of newsletter available online by clicking HERE. Also newly available, our Production Notes document - lots of tips for new and experienced directors. Go to the downloads page (link at top) or click HERE.
26 February: The Railway Children opens this Friday! Buy your tickets now!
18 February: Set building for The Railway Children is this weekend! So get yourself down to the theatre and help out - all welcome. We'll be there Sat and Sun from 10 till 5.
3 Feb: Following an extremely interesting and informative Lighting Workshop I have added a guide to using lighting gels onto the downloads page, where there are also lots of other useful techical documents as well as the current GST diary.
28 Added: a review of Breaking the Code by Leonie Stephens in the Garden Suburb News.
3 Jan. Look on our Facebook pages for pictures of the New Year's Eve party...
11 December. Click HERE to see photos of Breaking the Code.
10 December: The audition notice for Time of My Life is up on the auditions page. Also, a list of our lighting equipment, compiled by David Lane, is now available to download from our Downloads page.
9 December: Breaking the Code was an amazing show, and played to packed houses every night.
3 December: This week: Breaking the Code, Upstairs at the Gatehouse. Go to the Breaking the Code page to read GST member Jean Neal's fascinating personal account of her time at Bletchley Park.
21 October - the whole cast photo from Romeo and Juliet is now online.
17 October 2008. Photos of The Old Masters at I Tatti are now online; click HERE to go to the Old Masters page.
29 September. Pictures of the Big Birthday Bash can be seen by clicking HERE
5 September: Around the World audio CDs are now available; cost £5 plus £1.50 p&p. If you'd like to buy one, email Terry on chairman(at)gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk
28 July: Audition details for Breaking the Code are now available CLICK HERE
24 July:A reminder about our Blanket Banquet (aka GST picnic!) this Saturday; 1pm at Golders Hill Park - for full details CLICK HERE.
Plus a reminder from Vanessa that the deadline for the next newsletter is Monday 11 August - all contributions welcome, email to the usual address.
18 July: Romeo and Juliet continues to critical acclaim - there are still three more performances so do come along tonight or tomorrow.
The One Act Play Festival last weekend was a huge success. Hundreds of people watched over the two days, and it was fantastic to share drama and fun with old and new friends from around the country. Tea and cake was enjoyed on Saturday afternoon, and apparently there have been several requests for the recipe for the ginger cake, so here it is The Chairman's Low Fat Centenary Ginger Cake.
3 July: Romeo and Juliet rehearsals are reaching their final stage. There are some amazing fights, choreographed by actor Dave Lear:
2 July: Please note there will be no performance of Romeo and Juliet on Tuesday 15th July, due to licensing regulations. At the performance on Monday 14th tickets will be 2 for the price of 1.
20 June: "Mischief" now has its own page. Click here for up to date details of the schedule
9 June: Mischief in the Wood. (FREE EVENT)
We now have confirmation of most of the plays that will form our One Act Play festival.
Three groups including ourselves have opted (independently) for one of Alan Ayckbourns five interlinked Confusions plays.
Confirmed so far:
Between Mouthfuls by Alan Ayckbourn presented by the Little Heath and Potters Bar Players
Saturday Sunday Monday by Eduardo de Filippo presented by the Incognitos
Five Blue Haired Ladies Sitting On A Green Park Bench by John A Penzotti presented by Bejou Productions
The Garden Suburb Junior School presents...
Gosforth Fete by Alan Ayckbourn presented by the Garden Suburb Theatre
A Talk In the Park by Alan Ayckbourn presented by the Martelloes
Singing In the Wilderness by David Campton, presented by the Kings Langley Players
Plus more to be confirmed. And entry to all these performances is FREE to all!
Friday July 11 at 7.30pm
Saturday July 12 from 3pm - 9pm
Little Oak Wood
30 May: David Brown sends us news of The Wild Goose Chase, a romantic comedy by John Fletcher which he is directing for the Ealing Shakespeare Players at the Questors Theatre from 18 - 21 June. Eugene Smith stars. More info HERE.
16 May: More about An Evening with "Flanders and Swann"
For more information about this event, click HERE to go to the Evening with Flanders and Swann page.