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ARTISTIC NEWS ROUND UP FOR FEBRUARY 2025
What a stellar start to the year it has been. We are so thrilled that our audiences were inspired to come and experience Greek tragedy with a contemporary twist. Our reviews and audience feedback for Medea was exceptional and many sentences started with “mesmerising” and “best production ever”. Enormous thanks go to Craig Shelton […]
LOFT OBITUARY FOR WILLIAM (BILL) WILKINSON – FEBRUARY 2025
BILL WILKINSON’S OBITUARY AND FUNERAL BILL AND LORNA CO-DIRECTING LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN – BILL’S FINAL PRODUCTION. On 30th December last year we posted the saddest news of the loss of Bill Wilkinson, who died at the age of 95. Bill had been struggling against the frustration of ill health, particularly difficult for him as […]
Triumphantly Rivetting
OEDIPUS currently playing at two West End theatres and Medea at the Loft Theatre in Leamington are evidence, if it were needed, that Greek drama resonates as powerfully today as it did in Athens in the 5th century BCE. Love, betrayal, abandonment, exile, revenge – we meet these themes in our newspapers every day. […]
LOFT UNVEILS ITS 2025 SEASON
A very happy theatre going 2025 to you all. We finished off 2024 with a production of Glorious! by Peter Quilter and were thrilled to have the playwright visit us, with his family, on the opening night. My thanks to James Suckling and his entire company for delighting our audiences with this December treat. I […]
ARTISTIC YEAR END ROUND UP FOR 2024
We are still enjoying the warm glow from the samovar following such a splendid production of Uncle Vanya. The reviews were stellar, as was the entire company. Every dimension of the show was applauded in the reviews, from the beautiful costuming, staging and lighting, to the performances and the specially composed music. We […]
READ THE LATEST ARTISTIC NEWS ROUND-UP HERE, WITH A LOOK AT WHAT’S AHEAD
So……..Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes has flown away and the cast and creatives are having a rest, after this fast-paced contemporary, much garlanded play. It was such a hit at the National and it was both an artistic and visual feast for our audiences. The tech team pulled out all the stops and the 20 scene changes […]
ARTISTIC ROUND-UP NEWS FOR SEPTEMBER
Well the summer has flown by, as summers have a tendency to do. Our theatre garden has continued to blossom and we are now on track for the blossoming of our autumn production programme. Summertime inside the theatre is busier than you might imagine, with our annual external testing and assessment of the health of […]
LOFT THEATRE ANNOUNCES PRODUCTIONS FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2025 CASTING CALL OUT
We are so thrilled to announce the first three productions for 2025. Readings and auditions for Medea and Constellations will be in July and August and posted very soon. Look out on the auditions page on the website and on social media for detail. MEDEA in a new version by Ben Power Director Craig […]
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S NEWS ROUND UP FOR JUNE
Well the ‘Bouncers’ bounced……….they bounced their way around front of house as the audience arrived and, thankfully, let them all in! They then surrounded us in the auditorium and played multiple characters with aplomb and skill on stage. What a joyous couple of weeks it was as audience and critics alike heaped praise on the […]
