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 was excited to be returning to The Maltings Arts Theatre, St Albans with the hilarious sequel Ladies Down Under, on 13-15 and 20-22 February 2025. This time we joined our inimitable fish packers for an adventure in Australia. This play is full of
We have to admit that our production of Wildest Dreams by Alan Ayckbourn, was a real leap of faith. This is one of Ayckbourn’s least-known plays and most definitely one of his darkest. Yes, there are some comedy moments, but plenty of awkward ones too, which left some of the audience wondering if they should
CAST Nurse: Lesley Cowland Juliet: Lucy Angela Desdemona: Margie Skinner Lady Macbeth: Shelley Healy Cleopatra: Abi Giles Kate: Clare Waller Henry V: Simon Ellis Romeo: Jon Baker Petruchio: Steve Deaville Director: Steph Cotter MERRY REGIMENT OF WOMEN The show was performed on 22nd & 29th April 2016 at The Maltings Theatre, St Albans as
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Performed for six nights from 19-28 January 2023 at the Maltings Theatre, St Albans, Home, I’m Darling is all about the Martins who are living the dream. Judy is striving to be the perfect 1950s housewife with her husband, Johnny. She revels in the joys of domesticity; making cakes, fancy cocktails, and homemade marmalade. And
Ladies’ Day was performed in memory of the show’s original director, and sorely missed friend, Jill Hardman: “Now you’ve got to go to all them places I can’t. Now you’ve got to live it for the both of us.” Breakaway Theatre Company triumphantly returned to the stage with Ladies’ Day by Amanda Whittington, a feel-good
CAST Roger – Graeme Shaw Miriam – Abigail Giles Ginnie – Jill Hardman Bob – Rob Lewis Maggie – Kathryn Hearn Kevin – Malcom Coakley Alex – Lee Carling Sharon – Lucy McCann Dennis – David Martin Directed by Iain Fowles Stage Manager – Natasha Inglis Thursday 7th – Saturday 9th February 2019 8pm (2:30pm Saturday
The show was performed from 7th, 8th and 11th November 2015 at Malting Theatre and Trinity Church, St Albans. The play was based on a real St Albans community in 1915, and commemorated the ‘Great War’ in a way that not only gave justice to those brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives, physical abilities and
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