20th April – Introduction to Sondheim’s ‘Anyone Can Whistle’
Do you know your Sondheims? We are staging Sondheim’s ‘Anyone Can Whistle’ at the end of 2023. All the details are on the Loft website. Ahead of the reading and auditions, we are holding an Introduction to the Musical with the director, James Suckling, who has been both a director and musical director for many […]
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We staged Jez Butterworth’s play ‘The Winterling’ and you certainly approved. We had great audience numbers and the feedback was spectacular. Here is one such comment from a group who came:- “The standards at the Loft are extraordinary. Can you raise the bar much higher? The quality of acting, sound, lighting and set design all […]
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What a cracking start to 2023 that was! I had enjoyed directing our opening play, Yasmina Reza’s ‘Art’, so much, working with a brilliant cast and crew and I knew that we had brought something special to the stage. I was not prepared though for the overwhelmingly positive response not only from the reviewers, but […]
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NEW YEAR NEWS ROUND UP So there it was……..the Centenary Year………..all wrapped up like a Christmas present. I can hardly believe that it seems to have played out so fast. My thanks to director Mike Rolfe and his immaculate company for delivering such a splendid and visually stunning Shakespeare to round off the year in […]
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ROUND UP NOVEMBER 2022 So, here we are moving towards the end of the Loft’s special year to mark its Centenary. It hardly seems possible. When we started planning for this year at the start of the pandemic it seemed ages away and when the pandemic lengthened, we were concerned we would even […]
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ROUND UP OCTOBER 2022 So The Seagull flew away and we concluded our production of a Chekhov play, to mark his importance to us as a regular feature in our theatre programme across our history. Thank you to all of you who made a donation to the relief fund for those whose lives […]
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ROUND UP SEPTEMBER 2022 The summer shimmered with heat and now the temperatures and daylight hours remind us that autumn is beckoning. We staged our new play in July, commissioned specially for the Centenary, written by David Fletcher. Entitled ‘Taking The Waters’ it told the story of how the discovery of the […]
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ROUND UP JULY 2022 Wow….the year is whizzing by. This centenary year has been so special and we had a really celebratory time staging Noel Coward’s ‘Present Laughter’ in June. The cast and crew relished listening to the laughter from the audience. Enormous thanks to Lorna Middleton – an experienced director elsewhere, but […]
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ROUND UP MAY 2022 Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Well not us! The Loft, across its history has often garnered headlines in the press, such as ‘Brave Loft’, ‘Courageous Loft’, for staging work by playwrights who are immensely challenging. In our Centenary year, we needed to acknowledge this history and to pay tribute […]
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ROUND UP APRIL, 2022 Lady Windermere’s Fan fluttered and certainly found favour with our audience. The exit poll from each night was full of praise and it was such a pleasure to witness the audiences first glimpse of the wonderful set. We were able to welcome a number of new people to the […]
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