Getting to Grips With Shakespeare’s Best Bits! Have you ever struggled to understand Shakespeare? Would you love to perform in a Shakespeare play, but don’t know where to start? Do you feel nervous about getting to grips with his language? Or are you keen to experiment with different performance techniques? Come along to our 2-hour […]
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BOOK TICKETS Rehearsals are well underway for this funny, touching play. Director Lesley Cowland explains: The play revolves around Lydia Martin, the leading lady currently starring in Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. This is the night of her very last theatre performance; she is retiring from the stage and moving to Switzerland with her elderly, rich
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Following their successful run of Ladies’ Day in 2022, Breakaway Theatre Company is excited to be returning to The Maltings Arts Theatre, St Albans with the sequel Ladies Down Under. In Ladies Down Under we join our inimitable fish packers Jan, Linda, Pearl and Shelley for an adventure in Australia. This play, like its predecessor,
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Established in 1984, Breakaway Theatre Company is celebrating 40 years of performing Amateur Theatre in St Albans!
A fantastic achievement for @breakawaytheatrecompany at the NODA East District 3 individual awards!! Winning an award and receiving an additional three highly commended for Wildest Dreams! We could not be prouder of our chairwoman Elaine Hartless who won the award for best duo of actors in a play alongside the wonderful Malcolm Coakley – they
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We are delighted/chuffed to bits/over the moon to announce that our production of Wildest Dreams has been nominated in several categories at the NODA East Region Awards for August 2023 to July 2024, which will take place at 1-4pm on September 22 at Luton Library Theatre. The nominations are: Most Interesting Set/Setting Best Actor in
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An original Breakaway Murder Mystery performed on 11th December 2014 for the Park Street Camera Club at the Parish Centre, Bricket Wood and on 18th December 2014 for Breakaway Theatre Company members, family and friends at Fleetville Community Centre, St Albans. Crown of Thorns was written by Suzanne Drake, Steph Harrison-Barker and Clare Waller and
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