Good Time

KDC Theatre presents…Good Time!

Calling all creatives

We at KDC Theatre are proud and excited to unveil our new night for creatives and party people!

A one night event, mid-December 2024, showcasing the breadth of talent the KDC community and beyond has culminating in one big party to see it off.

For performers…

We’d like to see your monologue, poem, musical brilliance, circus skills, stand-up routine, or another talent you would like to showcase.

To audition, sign up to the main Autumn 2024 auditions, and we will see you at a special Good Time audition on Saturday 21 September. You can also hear more at the season launch event on Monday 9 September.

For writers…

Send your submission of a monologue, duologue, scene, poem lasting no longer than 4 pages, and needing no more than 3 actors by Friday 27 September. The chosen pieces will be staged as part of the evening.

As it is our inaugural Good Time we would love to see creatives inspired by our namesake! What sparks in your mind, what gets you going, what’s your reaction when you want a GOOD TIME? Let’s have fun with it and we can’t wait to see what you come up with!

As this is an 18+ event, we will be accepting submissions from any person over the age of 18. Please only submit one piece of work, using this link.

Autumn season 2024 auditions

Announcing auditions for actors for our autumn 2024 productions!

We have two shows in autumn 2024, and you can audition for both on the same day.

W;t
Written by Margaret Edson
Directed by Stephen Reimer
Staged at Hen & Chickens Theatre from 19 to 23 November 2024
Audition notice

Goats
Written by Liwaa Yazji, translated by Katherine Halls
Directed by Ram Noureddine
Staged at Barons Court Theatre from 26 to 30 November 2024
Audition notice

Auditions are free and open to all. Please pick one of the dates to attend and read the audition notices carefully to prepare.

Don’t forget to fill out the audition form before you audition!

Dates: Mon 16 or Wed 18 September 2024 (please choose one of these dates to attend)
Time: 6.45pm welcome and registration to ~10pm
Location: Theatre Deli Leadenhall, 107 Leadenhall Street, EC3A 4AF, London

Recalls by invitation are Sat 21 September 2024, 2-6pm at Theatre Deli Leadenhall.

If you’d like to hear the directors speak about their productions and ask them any questions, you can meet them at the KDC Autumn Season Launch on Monday 9 September 2024, 7.30pm at the Theatre Deli Leadenhall bar. You can also talk to them about getting involved in other backstage ways.

To help us manage numbers, please let us know if you’re coming to the Autumn Season Launch.

Good Time

At our auditions this season there will be another chance to get involved with a brand new KDC event – Good Time, an eclectic showcase of all kinds of creative talent from the KDC community and beyond for one night only in December at a venue to be confirmed.

As a performer, there will be two ways to get involved – be part of something devised by someone else, or bring your own talent that could work as a solo performance. So, if you’re an actor-musician, actor-poet, actor-acrobat or multi-hyphenate of any kind… there could be a role in this for you!

The Good Time team will be on hand at the first auditions to tell you a bit more about it, and recruiting performers from our auditionees. 

For now though, if we’ve got you interested, just tick the box on the audition form and tell us what you’d want to share.

KDC summer social

Come join the KDC Theatre community in the afternoon of August 26th Bank Holiday Monday for a picnic in Green Park. We’ll be toasting the end of summer and beginning of our next season of exciting productions. Whether you’re an old hand or newbie to the group, come and be merry!

What: KDC Theatre members and community are meeting for an end-of-summer aperitivo! Bring your blankets, picnic fare, and drinks of choice. Remember: Sharing is caring!

When: Monday 26 August, from 4pm until sundown

Where: Green Park, just south of the exit from Green Park tube station (exit on the south side of Piccadilly). Exact location is here on What Three Words: https://w3w.co/bright.blur.belly and there is a toilet and M&S in the Tube station nearby.

RSVPs are not necessary, please just show up – everyone is welcome!

Goats

KDC Theatre presents “Goats” by Liwaa Yazji, translated by Katherine Halls
Directed by Ram Noureddine

26 – 30 November 2024
at Barons Court Theatre

About

“Goats” is set in a small town in Syria, and explores the impact of war on society. As the coffins pile up, the local party leader decides on a radical compensation scheme: a goat for each son martyred.

Cast:
Ann Andic
Marnie Ashbridge
Nene Campos
Samir Chitnavis
Peader Donnelly
Ham Hossain
Rafail-Dimitrios Igkiempor
Lilian Kazdekian Mora
Yen-yen Loke
Alessandra Lupo
Denisa MaTea
Charlie Morel
Nelena Paparisva
Fahad Salman
Dominic Short
Angelika Wloch
Jenni Wredden

Crew:
Director: Ram Noureddine

W;t


KDC Theatre presents “W;t” by Margaret Edson
Directed by Stephen Reimer

19 – 23 November 2024
at Hen & Chickens Theatre
Tickets: £18.75 (KDC members £14.25)

About

W;t goes inside the mind of Professor Vivian Bearing, a professor of metaphysical poetry specialising in the poet John Donne, while she receives experimental chemotherapy treatment for stage four metastatic ovarian cancer.

W;t is a drama about kindness, the pursuit of knowledge, and how we come to be ourselves. For a play about cancer, it is surprisingly funny. W;t won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999.

Cast:
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D. – Grace Over
Harvey Kelekian, M.D. – Martin Shaw
Jason Posner, M.D. – Jack Curtin
Susie Monahan, R.N., B.S.N. – Shanara Phillips
E. M. Ashford, D. Phil. – Jacky Rowland
Ensemble – Aouda Ketrouci, Rufus Walkden, Harry York, Jen Zhao

Creative Team:
Director – Stephen Reimer
Producer – Kathryn Donville
Assistant Stage Manager – Cathy Lee

Notice of the KDC AGM 2024

NOTICE IS GIVEN that an Annual General Meeting of KDC Theatre will be at 7.30pm on Monday 19 August 2024, held at Theatre Deli, 107 Leadenhall St, London EC3A 4AF, to transact the agenda listed below.

Please RSVP at the link below to let us know if you can make it.

AGENDA

  1. Reports and accounts
    1. Introduction and verbal report from the Chair, Helen Dickens.
    2. Verbal report from the Artistic Director, Saskia van ‘t Hoff.
    3. Verbal report from the Treasurer, Hugo Wilson, alongside the accounts for the year ending 31 July 2024.
  1. Member proposed resolutions

Details of any proposed resolutions will be made available. Proposed resolutions should be sent to the Chair by 11pm on 17 August 2024. If applicable, a revised agenda will be issued prior to the AGM. 

NB. Proposed resolutions may be submitted by full members of KDC by emailing helen@kdctheatre.com with the subject line “Proposed Resolution”.  Find out who is a full KDC member here.

  1. Appointment of charity trustees

Nominations are required for the following officers: Chair, Artistic Director, Treasurer. 

Nominations for all trustees, including non-officers, must be received by 11pm on 17 August 2024. 

NB Details of how to make a nomination are available from the KDC website (click here).

  1. Appointment of non-trustees to specified roles to assist in the running of the charity

Nominations of non-trustees to specified roles to assist in the running of the charity must be received by 11pm on 17 August 2024. 

NB Details of how to make a nomination are available from the KDC website (click here).

  1. Any other business

To deal with any matters raised at the meeting.

On behalf of the Board of charity trustees,

Helen Dickens

Chair

KDC Theatre

The Plan: A Festival of New Writing

Our summer show, “The Plan” presents new short plays by different writers, the 2024 winners in KDC Theatre’s 8th annual new writing competition. All plays start with the same opening line:

“It’s not like we planned it.”

Our writers have taken that opening line and created their stories of what comes next. Each night will present rehearsed readings of new short plays, so be sure to come to both (and get a 15% discount if you book for both nights)!

Location: Drayton Arms Theatre
Dates & time: Tues 25 & Wed 26 June 2024, 7.30pm
Ticket prices: £16.50 / £12 for KDC members (15% discount if you book for both shows)
Run time: 90 minutes, plus interval


Tuesday 25 June
The Plan by Nigel Bell
Crossing Lines by Ken Preuss
Cue by Kate Danley
Godot’s Park Bench by J.J. Steinfeld
Slow Our Ship by Arianna Rose
Unplanned Planet by J. Ivanel Johnson
Agent X19 by Christian Simonsen
Spaced Out by Jennifer Walker

Wednesday 26 June
Who Am I Again by Liam D Gillies
The Trap by Peadar Donnelly
Goats & Bananas by Susanna Wolff
Bacon Sandwich by Simon Fisher
Deja Zoo by Brett Hursey
It’s Not Like We Planned It by David Salisbury
It’s Not Like We Planned It by V.B. Rankin
The Journey by Tara Kitson
The Cactus by Robert Emlyn Slater

Cast
Andreea Rediu
Anita Fuentes Mejia
Grace Over
Ida Axling
Jennifer Nettles
Jozef Radovsky
Julie Addy
Katie Gambold
Kelsey McOwat
Melanie Constance
Princess Williams
Rosie Pierce
Rufus Walkden
Sashini Wijesekera
Tom Bisgood
Zach Matcham

Directors
Sanhita Athalye
Jason Jodjana
Lucas Irwin
Ben Anadolu
Matthew Partridge
Azul Alysum
Alice Kellar
Anna Markland
Dean Reilly

Summer 2024 show: Full stack – writers needed!

Full Stack is back! KDC Theatre’s new writing competition and summer show returns as a Festival of New Writing of rehearsed readings, and we need YOU!

The Festival of New Writing, “The Plan”, will take place on Tuesday 25 June and Wednesday 26 June at the Drayton Arms Theatre and we are looking for script submissions . Below is all the information you need, so read on.

  • Calling all writers!

We are asking you to submit your short plays, with the winning scripts making up our Festival of New Writing show, “The Plan”; a great opportunity to see directors and actors bring your words to life.

This year we’re asking for submissions with the same opening line:

“It’s not like we planned it.”

Any genre is welcome, and we’re not looking for identikit plays to a theme. Be as creative as you like with where your story goes from that first line!

Each winning play will be performed as a rehearsed reading, with directors and actors drawn from a company created for the festival. The actors will sit in a line on chairs on stage, and have their scripts in their hands to read from. There will be no moving around (blocking), no costumes, and no props – unless extremely necessary and/or easy, which will have to be approved by the showrunner.

We want this to showcase as much new writing as we can fit into an evening so plays should be limited to a maximum of 8 minutes (6-7 pages) but you can submit as many scripts as you like. We will time each script and if they’re too long, we won’t be able to accept!

Be as flexible as you can with gender so we can assign both male and female presenting actors to your characters. 

Write for at least 2 characters (no monologues) and a maximum of 8 characters (doubling up is possible).

The deadline for submissions is 18 May 2024 and you can submit your scripts HERE. The selection committee will read all plays once the submission window closes and then get back to each writer with the outcome of the selection process.

Once we have our selection of short plays, we of course need directors and actors! This is an excellent show for new and starting directors and actors to get stuck in without the commitment and pressure of a full-length play. If you come on board, you will work on multiple short plays over the course of the rehearsal period.

Thank you to all those who applied to direct or act in the show – we have already received enough applications and are finalizing the line-ups.

Tickets will go on sale very soon, please sign up for our newsletter or keep an eye on our social media for the announcements!

Summer 2024 show: Full Stack

Full Stack is back! KDC Theatre’s new writing competition and summer show returns as a Festival of New Writing of rehearsed readings, and we need YOU!

The Festival of New Writing, “The Plan”, will take place on Tuesday 25 June and Wednesday 26 June at the Drayton Arms Theatre and we need writers, actors, and directors to make this a success. Below is all the information you need, so read on.

  • For Writers

Calling all writers!

We are asking you to submit your short plays, with the winning scripts making up our Festival of New Writing show, “The Plan”; a great opportunity to see directors and actors bring your words to life.

This year we’re asking for submissions with the same opening line:

“It’s not like we planned it.”

Any genre is welcome, and we’re not looking for identikit plays to a theme. Be as creative as you like with where your story goes from that first line!

Each winning play will be performed as a rehearsed reading, with directors and actors drawn from a company created for the festival.

We want this to showcase as much new writing as we can fit into an evening so plays should be limited to a maximum of 8 minutes (6-7 pages) but you can submit as many scripts as you like. We will time each script and if they’re too long, we won’t be able to accept!

Be as flexible as you can with gender so we can assign both male and female presenting actors to your characters. 

Write for at least 2 characters (no monologues) and a maximum of 8 characters (doubling up is possible).

The deadline for submissions is 18 May 2024 and you can submit your scripts HERE. The selection committee will read all plays once the submission window closes and then get back to each writer with the outcome of the selection process.

Once we have our selection of short plays, we of course need directors and actors! This is an excellent show for new and starting directors and actors to get stuck in without the commitment and pressure of a full-length play. If you come on board, you will work on multiple short plays over the course of the rehearsal period.

  • For Directors

Directors will come on board for the whole of the rehearsal period and will take on multiple plays to direct. Exactly how many you take on will be decided in conversation and will depend on your appetite, the total pool of directors we have signed up, and the amount of plays we select.

The showrunners will assign scripts to directors (and actors), but they will ask if you have any preferences or ambitions for a genre or type of play. No promises we can get you everything you want or like, though!

The format for the Festival of New Writing is rehearsed readings. This means the actors will sit in a line on chairs on stage, and have their scripts in their hands to read from. There will be no moving around (blocking), no costumes, and no props – unless extremely necessary and/or easy, which will have to be approved by the showrunner.

In rehearsals you will work with your actors on the text and character analysis and performance of the lines. The focus will be on the text and the performances, not the staging. 

Each play will get 2-3 online rehearsals and 1 in-person rehearsal. A rehearsal schedule will be created when we have the full company confirmed and plays assigned. There will also be a full-day rehearsal with the showrunners to create transitions from one play into the next, and to run all plays in front of each other. This will be on Saturday 22 June or Sunday 23 June and it will be mandatory for everyone to attend.

The show will take place on Tuesday 25 June and Wednesday 26 June at the Drayton Arms Theatre. All directors and the company will be called each day from an hour before the show to set up, prepare, warm up, and then perform. Each show will have a different set of plays, so each director will have a different cast to look after each show. If you cannot attend all shows, please let the showrunners know; we do ask you to attend as many as you can to support your actors and the show.

Directors can sign up HERE if they want to be a part of the company. Once you sign up, we will take a bit of time to finalise the company list and we’ll then get back to you. Thank you!

  • For Actors

There will be no auditions to take part in this Festival of New Writing, “The Plan”; we will create a company of 20 actors on a first come, first served basis from the actors that sign up. Once the plays have been chosen, roles will be assigned to the actors in the company and rehearsals will start. Actors will be assigned multiple roles in multiple plays.

Each play will get 2-3 online rehearsals and 1 in-person rehearsal. A rehearsal schedule will be created when we have the full company confirmed and plays assigned. There will also be a full-day rehearsal with the showrunners to create transitions from one play into the next, and to run all plays in front of each other. This will be on Saturday 22 June or Sunday 23 June and it will be mandatory for everyone to attend.

The format for the Festival of New Writing is rehearsed readings. This means you will sit in a line on chairs on stage, and have your scripts in their hands to read from. There will be no moving around (blocking), no costumes, and no props.

In rehearsals you will work with your director on the text and character analysis and performance of the lines. The focus will be on the text and the performances, not the staging. 

The show will take place on Tuesday 25 June and Wednesday 26 June at the Drayton Arms Theatre. Each evening will feature a different set of plays. Every actor will have roles on each night, unless you tell us you absolutely cannot make a particular date. We do ask that you be as available as possible to allow us to allocate and schedule rehearsals easier. Please ensure you add that information to the sign-up form so we are aware.

Actors can sign up HERE if they want to be a part of the company. Once you sign up, we will take a bit of time to finalise the company list and we’ll then get back to you. Thank you!

Tickets will go on sale very soon, please sign up for our newsletter or keep an eye on our social media for the announcement. We will offer a “buy tickets for all shows, get a discount” deal!

Pitches now open for our Autumn 2024 and Spring 2025 seasons

Open call for pitches

With our Spring 2024 Season shows debuting soon and exciting plans for the Summer, it’s time to set our eyes to Autumn 2024 and beyond!

Pitches are now open for shows for our future seasons – Autumn 2024 (auditions in September 2024, performances in November 2024) and Spring 2025 (January 2025-March 2025). If you’re a budding director or a producer, read on and see if KDC might be a good place to hone your next project!

There is no set theme to follow, we just really want to see your passion for your chosen project come through in your pitch. All the details about what we’re looking for, what support you’ll get from KDC Theatre, and how to submit your pitch can be found on our Directing with KDC page.

Pitches close on 07 April 2024 at midnight.