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Outer Limits – Writing Plays Big Lungs with Rebeca Latham
What are the contributing factors at play? How can you as a writer be thinking about your work for those stages and what are we as readers and programmers considering?
This workshop is for mid-career professional playwrights who have already had at least one of their play professionally produced, performed by professional actors for a run of at least 11 performances or more. Or equivalent experience.
Rebecca is the RSC’s New Works Manager. Credits as dramaturg include: For the RSC: Macbeth (Daniel Raggett); Cyrano de Bergerac; Hamlet (Rupert Goold); Edward II (Daniel Raggett); Cowbois; As You Like It (Omar Elerian); First Encounters: Twelfth Night (Robin Belfield) and The Comedy of Errors (Alex Thorpe).
Rebecca oversees research and development on commissions and actively seeks out writers for the RSC to engage with. Previously Rebecca worked at the Almeida Theatre, The Old Vic, and was a Senior Reader at Theatre503.
Outer Limits – Jack and the Beanstalk Technical Rehearsal Observation
A limited number of spaces are available to observe rehearsals for Jack and the Beanstalk Directed by Kate Lovell.
Additionally, we are providing access to our technical rehearsals for Jack and the Beanstalk, followed by a Q&A with our producing team.
Early booking is advised as spaces are limited.
Outer Limits – Jack and the Beanstalk Rehearsal Observation
A limited number of spaces are available to observe rehearsals for Jack and the Beanstalk Directed by Kate Lovell.
Additionally, we are providing access to our technical rehearsals for Jack and the Beanstalk, followed by a Q&A with our producing team.
Early booking is advised as spaces are limited.
Outer Limits – Getting Your Work Programmed with Steven Bowyer
Covering how to approach venues, package and pitch your show and gain an insight into what venue programmers are looking for. There will be an opportunity to analyse tour packs and discuss practical steps for building relationships with venues.
This workshop is aimed at artists/organisations who are looking to further develop and tour their work.
Outer Limits – From Planning to Performance: Touring Theatre Explained with Francesca Clark
Covering budgeting, tour booking, deals and promotion. Francesca will break down each part of the process to give you the best chance of creating a successful UK tour. This session is for early and mid-career producers*. You may already have a project you are working on or are looking to find out more about the process.
*This includes any artists who are producers or professional writers and directors interested in producing and touring their own work.
Francesca has previously held producing roles at Hightide and as an independent producer. She recently produced the QTH and National Theatre’s Theatre Nation Partnerships UK Tour of Handbagged, which completed a 13-week tour.
Outer Limits – Direct Trajectories – Forging a Career in Theatre Directing with Hannah Joss
Hannah will demystify the pathways available to early-career directors; from making your own work, to assisting at major theatres, and not forgetting those pesky talent development schemes somewhere in the middle.
This workshop is for early-career professional directors who will have graduated from a recognised directing course and/or have completed your first professional directing/assistant directing job with a run of at least 11 performances.
Hannah is Associate Director (Literary) at Chichester Festival Theatre. Credits include Choir (CFT), Original Death Rabbit (Jermyn Street Theatre) and Carry on Jaywick (HighTide/Vault Festival). She was Resident Director at National Theatre Studio; Baylis Assistant Director at The Old Vic; Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre and part of the 2020-21 Old Vic 12 cohort. She worked as an assistant director at the National Theatre, Old Vic, Almeida Theatre, Bush Theatre, Bridge Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company.
Outer Limits – A-Z of the Casting Process with Hannah Miller
In this session, you will work in small groups to cast a show from start to finish, working through challenges that come up at each step of the process.
Hannah was the Royal Shakespear Company’s Head of Casting between 2008-2022 and now works as a freelance Casting Director. Recent projects include working with Manchester Royal Exchange, My Neighbour Totoro in the West End, and QTH’s production of Bedroom Farce.
This workshop is for early and mid-career actors, directors and producers.
Caroline: A New Musical
Caroline dreams of something more than stacking shelves at the local greengrocers. Her days are routine, but her nights come alive, walking the pier, sharing laughs with her best friend Mary, and spinning records with Robbie, her music-mad boyfriend who’s big on charm yet short on direction.
But a music revolution is coming, and Robbie lands a shock gig with Radio Caroline – the pirate radio station blasting pop, soul and rock ’n’ roll from a ship off the Essex coast and suddenly everything changes. Caroline is swept into a tidal wave of music, mayhem and a movement that would shake up British culture forever.
Caroline: A New Musical is produced by the East Anglian Touring Consortium. It is penned by the award-winning writer Vikki Stone and Directed by Douglas Rintoul (Chief Executive/Artistic Director at the New Wolsey Theatre) and Alex Thorpe (Co-Creative Director at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch).
Essex local Vikki Stone says “It has been a delight to develop Caroline, a bold, loud, and joyfully defiant show which celebrates the rich cultural history of the East Anglia”
Douglas Rintoul adds “As someone who also grew up in the area, I’m thrilled that we’re bringing this extraordinary story home. We are committed to creating high-quality, original theatre made by and for the people of East Anglia and what better story to tell than one that’s so deeply rooted in our region’s rebellious, creative spirit? Caroline celebrates the mavericks who changed the airwaves forever, blending wit, heart, and a glorious soundtrack that defined a generation. Audiences can expect an uplifting, joyful, and distinctly East Anglian story told with all the energy, humour, and humanity that defines our actor-musician work.”
The East Anglian Touring Consortium unites eight leading regional arts organisations from across East Anglia: Eastern Angles, HighTide, Landmark Theatres (New Theatre Peterborough), Mercury Theatre Colchester, New Wolsey Theatre, Norwich Theatre, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds. Their mission is to create a sustainable, inclusive model for midscale touring, producing original theatre that champions local talent and reaches under-served communities. Supported by Arts Council England, it aims to strengthen East Anglia’s creative economy, expand access to the arts, and set a national example for collaborative, environmentally responsible theatre-making.
New City College Battle of The Bands – Battle against local schools
Come and see the best young musical talent from our fabulous local schools. Come and support the new emerging musicians who are part of the Havering Music Scene.
