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Garden Suburb Theatre

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 calendar of GST Centenary events

VENUES: For maps of how to get to our venues, click here
CALENDAR: To download a diary for the whole season, click here

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Next show:
11/12 July: Mischief in the Wood - a festival of drama FREE EVENT

followed by 14 and 16 - 19 July
Romeo and Juliet - 7.30pm nightly plus Sat matinee
Bookings: 020 7723 6609
Tickets £7.50/£6 concessions 

GST 2008 Calendars - celebrating 100 years of drama in Hampstead Garden Suburb.

CALENDAR

Garden Suburb Theatre 2008 Calendars now available - celebrating 100 years of drama

Coming up:

6/7 July: Set building for Romeo and Juliet, Sat and Sun, 10am-5pm, Little Oak Wood 

11/12 July: Mischief In the Wood. Drama Festival. Free event, more details here.

14 and 16 - 19 July: Romeo and Juliet

20 July: Auditions, London Assurance

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Members: if you've got any news about other productions that you're in, email me and I'll put the details and a link up

News...

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.

6 May: A Message from Vanessa:

Your Newsletter needs you

 Be a GST Newsletter Contributor. 

We are coming up to our 100th edition of the Newsletter in early June and we’d like it to be a really jam-packed issue.

We had a great response for the Centenary Souvenir brochure and would love more stories, article and pictures for the upcoming Newsletter.

If you have reviews, anecdotes, opinions, family news, bulletins, etc we would welcome them.

  The deadline for articles is 23rd May 2008

 Please send your articles Williams toVanessa (Assistant Editor) at

gstwebsite@gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk  


4 May. The "evening with Flanders and Swann" will now take place on Friday 6 June. Call 020 7723 6609 to book your tickets.  The Improvisation workshop planned for May 10 has been postponed, more details soon. Romeo and Juliet rehearsals have started. We have had a lot of interest in the One Act Play festival and I will be publishing the list of plays soon....

2 April Jon Musker will be staging the Fun Raisin cabaret, in aid of Cancer Research, on Sunday May 4th (the Sunday before Bank Holiday Monday). An evening of comedy, music and dance featuring some of the best amateur and professional talent in North London and Hertfordshire, including members of the Garden Suburb Theatre. Click HERE for more details.

27 March. Nice piece in the Ham & High today, see below

 

17 March Last night's audition for Romeo and Juliet was extremely well attended, and casting details will be available soon. Meanwhile, I have posted a picture of the audition on the Romeo and Juliet page.

12 March. DVDs of Around the World in 80 Days will be available, soon. They cost £15 each inc. postage; if you would like one, email me.

Last year's production of The Old Masters has been invited to perform at I Tutti near Florence, which is where the play is set. However not all the cast are able to go (the trip is 24-26 September) so Angela Cox, the director, will be having auditions on 17 April for the new cast members. Again, email me for further details.

The May rehearsed reading will be Six Characters in Search of an Author by Pirandello; more details soon.

Casting and Selection committee are looking for directors: Members who would be interested in directing a show during 2009 should contact Susie Ramsey, Fred Griessen or Ros Berg or, once again, email me and I will pass your details on.

11 March Around the Word in 80 Days is over after several years of hard work, having been seen by over 1000 people. Posted on the site today: A new version of our diary for 2008; acclaim for Around the World from members of the audience; some information from the director about What The Butler Saw. Coming soon: Photos of Around the World.

20 January. The final events in our Centenary Programme are being arranged and a full programme for the rest of the year will be announced in a special Centenary Newsletter whic will be published in time for Around the World in 80 Days at the end of February. Rehearsals for Around the World are going well and tickets are selling fast so order yours soon!

11 December: Photos of the Masters have been uploaded - click HERE to view them

3 December: GST member Penny Nachir is performing with the Guild Players, Finchley, this week in The Fumblings at Friars Bottom by Richard Coleman. More details here.

18 November: The audition notice for What the Butler Saw is now on the site.

28 October. Pygmalion finished last night with a very large and appreciative audience, but we're moving straight on - auditions start tonight for Around the World in 80 Days, and The Old Masters is of course already in rehearsal.

23 October. This week - Pygmalion!
Book now as tickets are selling fast.... rehearsal and cast pictures now on the Pygmalion page

1 October: Christopher Poke (Antonio in The Tempest) will be appearing in The Burial at Thebes (Seamus Heaney's take on Antigone) at the Mary Wallace Theatre in Twickenham from 20th - 27th October.

25 September. We are pleased to announce our 2007/2008 season is now complete: In April 2008 we will be performing What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton, at the Henrietta Barnett School Theatre, directed by Diana Bromley.

18 September:
The audition notice for our February musical; Around the World in 80 Days by Terry Rogers, has now been posted on our auditions page.

09 August:
The audition notice for our December production, The Old Masters by Simon Gray, has now been posted on our auditions page.

29 July:
Due to a rising number of members joining the social networking website, Facebook
, there has been a group set up for members of this society. This is the link for any who are interested.

Alon Witztum (most recently seen as Ariel in The Tempest) will be performing in Pericles, Prince of Tyre at The Vanbrugh Theatre on Saturday 4th August as part of the RADA Youth Group. Performances are at 2.30 and 7.30 and the theatre is located at RADA on Malet Street. Link here, and tickets can be bought on 02079084800.

23 July:
The Tempest has now completed a successful run with only one performance
interrupted by the rain. Look out for a review coming soon.

The Pygmalion production has now been cast. It will be performed in October in Henrietta Barnett School Theatre.

13 June:
Dame Henrietta's Dream was a tremendous success, with several sold-out performances and gala night in the presence of our President, Sir Donald Sinden, as well as the Mayor of Barnet and various other local dignitaries. A review will be posted in due course. In the meantime we're already well into rehearsing The Tempest for which we're creating a beach and a shipwreck in Little Wood!

17 May:
Dame Henrietta's Dream, the first of our two open-air shows this year, is part of Hampstead Garden Suburb's Centenary Celebrations. Click here for more details of the celebrations: www.hgs.org.uk/centenary

13 April: Fallen Angels at Manx Amateur Drama Festival

A week of fun, frolics and fabulous weather was topped by Susan Quine winning the award for Best Supporting Actress. Mary Musker and Debbie Lane were jointly nominated for Best Comedy Award for Act II of the play, and Mary was also nominated for Best Actress.

30 March 2007: Members & guests event: Fallen Angels

We are taking Fallen Angels to the Isle of Man Amateur Drama Festival next weekend and there is a  chance to see the cast perform the play again before we go.
The performance will be at the lower school hall of King Alfred's School North End Road beginning at 7.30pm. The show runs for 2 hours.

Your support will be very welcome.

To get to the school if you don't know - go up North End Road from Golders Green and go passed the first turning Welgarth Road. The school is on the left through metal gates. The hall is across the grass and diagonally opposite on the left. There will be helpful direction signs to guide you. If you can't park in the grounds, parking is allowed in the main road or side roads.

Admission is free to Members and friends and wine and soft drinks will be on sale. See you there!

 

                                                                           

Older news can be found in the archive, here.

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Shows for 2008

Feb/March
Around the World in 80 Days
by Terry Rogers

April
What the Butler Saw
by Joe Orton

July

Mischief in the Wood
a free Festival of Drama

followed by
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare

October
London Assurance
by Dion Boucicault

December
Breaking the Code
by Hugh Whitemore