Category: Autumn 2024

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.

Goats


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

26 – 30 November 2024
at Barons Court Theatre
Tickets: £16.50 (KDC members £12)

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About

“Goats” is set in a small Syrian town brainwashed by ongoing propaganda to fight a civil war. Martyrs are considered heroes in the eyes of many, and grieving families are given goats as part of the local party leader, Abu Al Tayyib’s compensation scheme.

Revisit “Goats” seven years after it premiered in London, but this time through a reimagining of the characters and the space. Ram Noureddine’s play adaptation tackles the absurdity of war and the hypocrisy that follows corruption. We will be introduced again to the original story through the martyr’s father, Abu Firas, and his journey to seek the truth about his son. This production focuses on the idea that war is indistinctive for people’s culture, ethnicity and race, portrayed by the diverse cast members.

“War can reach anyone and everyone.” – Ram Noureddine, Adaptor and Director.

Cast:
Abu Al Tayyib – Fahad Salman
Abu Firas – Samir Chitnavis
Adnan – Charlie Morel
Imm Al Tayyib – Nelena Paparisva
Imm Ghassan – Jenni Wredden
Imm Nabil – Ann Andic
Presenter – Peadar Donnelly
Zahra – Alessandra Lupo
Abu Karim / Ensemble – Ham Hossain
Fadi / Ensemble – Denisa MaTea
Jude / Ensemble – Marnie Ashbridge
Mudar / Ensemble – Dominic Short
Sami / Ensemble – Yen-yen Loke
Ensemble – Angelika Wloch
Ensemble – Lilian Kazdekian Mora
Ensemble – Rafail-Dimitros Igkiempor

Crew:
Director, adaptor, choreographer, sound designer: Ram Noureddine
Stage manager: Connor Brown
Producer: Delaney Conway
Lighting designer: Saskia Van ‘t Hoff
Tech operator/Assistant stage manager: Janina Enrile

Poster designs by Ragheed Zaky

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)

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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

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.