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Good Time auditions

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.

Download the good time poster here

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

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.

RSVP to attend the AGM here

AGENDA

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.

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.

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).

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).

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

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!

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.

Spring season 2024 auditions

Announcing auditions for actors for our spring 2024 productions!

We have three shows in spring 2024, and you can audition for all on the same day!

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Written by Alistair McDowall
Directed by Lloyd Smith
Staged at Barons Court Theatre from 19 to 23 March 2024
Audition notice

A Weekend Away at the Hotel Decevoir
Written and directed by Kimberley Taylor
Staged at White Bear Theatre from 26 to 30 March 2024
Audition notice

13
Written by Mike Bartlett
Directed by Saskia van ‘t Hoff
Staged at Drayton Arms Theatre from 2 to 6 April 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: Tues 16 or Wed 17 January 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 20 January 2024, 12-3pm 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 Spring Season Launch on Thursday 11 January, 7.30pm at the Theatre Deli Leadenhall bar. You can also talk to them about getting involved in other backstage ways.

We look forward to seeing you at auditions soon!

Hans, the Witch and the Gobbin

KDC Theatre presents Alan Cullen’s “Hans, the Witch and the Gobbin”

21 – 25 November 2023
at Barons Court Theatre

Tickets: £16.50 (KDC members £12)

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About

Hans, the Witch and the Gobbin by Alan Cullen is a fun fairytale frolic through a fantasy forest. It has princesses, witches, forest queens, goblin-like creatures, fairy swineherds, and useless court physicians. Expect silly voices, big characters, and mistaken identities. Come and escape a cold autumn night for a few hours, and forget your troubles!

While the show is suitable for all ages, we judge it’s best enjoyed by an adult audience, glass of wine in hand.

Cast:
Hans – Theo Tompkins
Princess Alicia – Mhairi Boyle
Castor – James Cross
Senna – Dan Struthers
King Rufus – Peader Donnelly
Scratch – Georgina Whittaker
Daisy – Sarah Beebe
Crabtree – Alice McCartney
Sylvester – Simon Berry
Queen of the Forest – Sarah Jost
Gobbin – Hannah Brown

Crew:
Director – Gabriella Guymer-Davies
Assistant Director – Freddie Wride
Stage Manager – Flick Hemming

Poster by Jake Guymer-Davies

Venue: Barons Court Theatre

Autumn season 2023 auditions

Announcing auditions for actors for our autumn productions!

We have two shows in autumn 2023, and you can audition for both on the same day!

Hamlet: A Chamber Play
Written by William Shakespeare
Adapted and directed by Karack Osborn
Staged at Barons Court Theatre from 14 to 18 November 2023
Audition notice

Hans, The Witch and The Gobbin
Written by Alan Cullen
Directed by Gabriella Guymer-Davies
Staged at Barons Court Theatre from 21 to 25 November 2023
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: Tues 12 or Wed 13 September 2023 (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 16 September, 12-4 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 11 September, 7.30pm at the Theatre Deli Leadenhall bar. You can also talk to them about getting involved in other backstage ways.

We look forward to seeing you there!