ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S ROUND UP FOR APRIL/ MAY
What a joy it was to stage Dylan Thomas’ magical Under Milk Wood, true to its origins as a radio play. We enjoyed creating a BBC radio studio on the stage and the specially composed music, live musicians and Foley sound certainly put the audacious talents of our cast and creatives on display, but we […]
READ MORE >Artistic Director’s Spring Round Up
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S NEWS ROUND UP SPRING 2024 I have recently had a really indulgent week in London catching up with loads of theatre at the Donmar and the National Theatre; both new work and revivals of classics. It is wonderful to see how the best do it. I am super proud at how many times […]
READ MORE >ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S ROUND UP – FEBRUARY 2024
We had a cold start to 2024, but the warmth of the audience response to our January production of Life x 3 took off the chill. The play was positively reviewed and it was good to hear laughter in the auditorium and people chatting about the play afterwards. Enormous thanks to my talented company for […]
READ MORE >ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S NEW YEAR NEWS ROUND-UP
So the fireworks lit up the sky and 2024 was launched………off we go with what I hope will be a wonderful year of theatre. We are excited to bring you a programme of comedies, original and new versions of classic plays, contemporary theatre, a stunning musical which was a massive hit in London in 2022, […]
READ MORE >ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S ROUND UP NOV/DEC 2023
What a brilliant two weeks we had during the run of Macbeth. Very full houses and amazing feedback on this classy production. What was most heartening were the many young audience members who felt that Shakespeare had been presented to them – many of them, for the first time – in a compelling way. The […]
READ MORE >ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S OCTOBER NEWS ROUND-UP
How quickly does the year seem to be whizzing by? We held the launch evening at the theatre last week for the productions for the first half of 2024, where the directors chat to our theatre company volunteers about the plays they are to direct, telling them something about them, about the playwrights, about how […]
READ MORE >Artistic Director’s September News Round-Up
AD ROUND UP SEPTEMBER 2023 So……I hope you all made the most of what summer sunshine there was or headed to warmer climes. At the Loft we have had a busy summer, hosting Arts Insight youth theatre for their super successful production ‘Game of Life’, bringing joy to both the students, their families and friends, […]
READ MORE >ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S NEWS ROUND UP JULY 2023
The mighty Boudica by Tristan Bernays closed to a cheering, appreciative audience in last month’s production. When we confirmed the rights to perform this play the agent applauded us for staging such an epic production. Never a theatre company to shy away from challenges, Libby Morris took up the gauntlet to direct this with confidence […]
READ MORE >Artistic Director’s News Round up – April/May
To some it was Wyrd and to others, just weird, but we had a huge number of Terry Pratchett fans and others who were being introduced to him for the first time, loving our last production of Wyrd Sisters; many attending multiple times. I think four visits was the record! Enormous thanks to Lorna Middleton […]
READ MORE >Loft offers free tickets to young theatre-goers
FREE TICKETS FOR YOUNG THEATRE-GOERS Do you want to see great theatre for free? We are making a great offer to young people to get the theatre habit. It is important for theatres to build their future audience and introduce people to the delights of live theatre. During 2024, tickets to Loft Theatre productions will […]
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