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Pitches Needed for KDC’s Winter Warmer Season!

We may well be about to launch our Summer Sizzler Season, but we are also looking ahead to warming our cockles in Winter 2012. We will be at the Lion and Unicorn in Kentish Town for the last 2 weeks in November and are looking for lighthearted and comedic plays to end the year on.

The only things that we would ask are that the plays have plenty of roles for our actors to throw themselves at (say, around 8 or more, but we are open) and that our strongest demographic, young female actors, are not relegated to the odd word in the background. The more equally divided the roles, the better!

If you have a show to pitch or would like to get your mind moving on it all, please could you get in contact with Emma Knott, Artistic Director at artistic@kdctheatre.com BEFORE the 25th May so that we can get the ball rolling!

We look forward to hearing from you

Conference Call

Conference Call

In Conference Call all three doctors and Martin Mills remain on stage throughout the entire performance. The play is based around an abstract phone call in the protagonists’ thoughts, and looks profoundly at the psychological responses of our minds when we suffer a tragedy. It looks into the different ways our minds may handle the grief post trauma.

Martin Mills is a risk-taking, city banker, who has developed severe mental blockages, brought on by an extremely painful life event. Through this he has lost all memory of his life and identity. Martin’s last memory was chasing a female ghost around a cemetery reciting the Lord’s Prayer backwards, whilst performing a disturbing religious ceremony. He is aware that his mind has closed down completely.

Conference Call, is just that, a long metaphorical conference call within Martin Mills’ mind, between the thinker (Martin) and three doctors, (the committee in his mind) who represent fetchers and carriers of memories in his consciousness, all fighting against the thinker in his internal dialogue. The doctors fail to agree at times, causing a division and psychological problems; all three and the thinker conspire together finding undesirable things in the memory. Certain unleashed memories cause uproar, and Martin’s mind goes on strike so he is unable to remember what happened to his missing wife.

 

Summer Season 2012

The Summer Season 2012 will be at the Etcetera Theatre, Camden, from 9 July to 22 July 2012.

We will be presenting four one-act plays; two pieces of established writing and two all new plays from the KDC New Writing stable.

We won’t be revealing the details until the Newcomers night at 7pm, Thursday 10 May, at The Red Herring pub, 49 Gresham Street, EC2V 7EH.

Come along, meet the directors and hear all about the exciting season ahead.

Studio Piece and Devising

The KDC Studio Piece will be returning for its fourth year over the summer season. The Studio Piece is a play devised entirely by the actors and director during the course of the rehearsal process and then fully rehearsed and performed.

More details about the Studio Piece and the rehearsal process will be available at Newcomers on Thursday 10 May, however for those of you who want a taste before getting involved we’re running an Intro to the Studio Piece session on Saturday 12 May.

The workshop will give a detailed introduction to the new Studio Piece process designed through workshops over the last two seasons. This will include the creation of settings, characters, agendas and scenes and the development of story.

The session will run from 12.15pm to 7pm on Saturday 12 May in a central London rehearsal space.

Attendance is free, however the session is limited to eight spaces.

Please contact Richard Williams at treasurer@kdctheatre.com for details on applying for the Intro session.

While this session is open to all, it is primarily intended for actors considering applying for the Studio Piece this season. There’s no obligation, however, and as the Studio Piece will be cast after the main shows there’s no problem attending this workshop, then auditioning for the main summer shows and then, if you’re still available, applying for the Studio Piece.

Summer Season means New Writing

KDC Theatre’s New Writing Needs YOU!

We need plays! We need readers! We need feedback!

Finish off those final scenes! Dust off that project you’d forgotten about! Work out that title! We want your plays and we want your writing for our Round Table Readings.

Come to Newcomers on Thursday 10 May to learn more about our New Writing Programme and the possibility of having your slaved-over scripts read! This season its ALL about New Writing.

Spring has Sprung in the Springiest Way

My lords and ladies! This week we mourn the passing (for the most part) of a truly amazing three weeks of KDC Shows (with MANY sell-out nights!)! Our Shakespeare season proved to be a real stormer at the Lion and Unicorn, a new venue for us, and Giant Olive Theatre Company for their support (big round of virtual applause and a Mexican wave in honour of George, Bianca, Tamzin, Cieran and Max).
Once again, the greatest of thanks from the committee to you, for the support and encouragement of our members from interest, to audition, to acting or watching! But obviously this season would have been for NAUGHT (still Shakespearean!) without Jacqui’s scandal-ridden 1960 era Measure for Measure, Matthew’s fantastically flapping 1920s The Tamer Tamed and Sarah’s glowstick 90s salute in KDC’s own The War of the Waleses (which was so popular it needed an extra show!).

The War of the Waleses is not done yet though. Oh no, sirrah! As part of the RSC Open Stages project there is a showcase to attend at our regional hosts, Questors Theatre in Ealing. We would love it if you, our members, could show your full support for us in their MASSIVE 350 seat venue! The performance is at 7.45pm on Thursday 26 April. For more details please visit the
Once more unto the praise, dear friends, and with immense gratitude at the hard for and enthusiasm of teams MM, TT and WW, the should of glory goes out tooooooooo (drumroll)

Jacqui Adams, Matthew Partridge, Sarah Heenan, Juliet Colbert, Emma Knott, Chris Warren, Asma Mani, James Killeen, Tracie Laurinaitis, Carl Fletcher, Doug Baker, Sarah Beebe, Jess Battersby, Alex Waddington, Matt Hudson, Elizabeth Daly, Hayden Bennett, Ida Scofano, Marlies Kunnen, Lucy Walker, Sky Bembury, Alice Jeffrey, Jules Cross, Katherine Wootton, Helen Jackson, Jeremy Small, Catherine Ion, Michael Johnson, Tash Muntoni, Chris Penney, Eddie Register, Clive Eliot, Alexis Coward, Cara Baressi, Abi Deffee, Beccy Reese, Peter Cabrera, Rob Timbrell, Zoe Ashdown, Ciaran Cunningham, Helen Niland, Will Baltyn, Stephen Russell, Matt Matravers, Simon Hill, Julia Collier, Alex Wheeler, Rebecca Ison, Alexandra Mackenzie-Smith, Catlin Homes, Richard Evans, Nigel Barker, Sarah Lowes, Leila Mountford, Rebecca Shoot, Rob Britton, Melissa Reardon, Dave Balfour, Tom Mannings, David Crackles, Claire Stone and Alan Maddrell

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!

If you’ve taken part this season and loved it, or seen a show and thought “oooh that looks fun”, or are eager to just throw in your lot with the coolest amateur theatre company in London, our newcomers will be in MAY and details will be coming out soon about our sensationally sizzling Summer season of one act wonders at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden!

See you in Summer!

Andy Marchant
Your ever Lovin’ Chair

Spring has Sprung in the Springiest Way

My lords and ladies! This week we mourn the passing (for the most part) of a truly amazing three weeks of KDC Shows (with MANY sell-out nights!)! Our Shakespeare season proved to be a real stormer at the Lion and Unicorn, a new venue for us, and Giant Olive Theatre Company for their support (big round of virtual applause and a Mexican wave in honour of George, Bianca, Tamzin, Cieran and Max).
Once again, the greatest of thanks from the committee to you, for the support and encouragement of our members from interest, to audition, to acting or watching! But obviously this season would have been for NAUGHT (still Shakespearean!) without Jacqui’s scandal-ridden 1960 era Measure for Measure, Matthew’s fantastically flapping 1920s The Tamer Tamed and Sarah’s glowstick 90s salute in KDC’s own The War of the Waleses (which was so popular it needed an extra show!).

The War of the Waleses is not done yet though. Oh no, sirrah! As part of the RSC Open Stages project there is a showcase to attend at our regional hosts, Questors Theatre in Ealing. We would love it if you, our members, could show your full support for us in their MASSIVE 350 seat venue! The performance is at 7.45pm on Thursday 26 April. For more details please visit the
Once more unto the praise, dear friends, and with immense gratitude at the hard for and enthusiasm of teams MM, TT and WW, the should of glory goes out tooooooooo (drumroll)

Jacqui Adams, Matthew Partridge, Sarah Heenan, Juliet Colbert, Emma Knott, Chris Warren, Asma Mani, James Killeen, Tracie Laurinaitis, Carl Fletcher, Doug Baker, Sarah Beebe, Jess Battersby, Alex Waddington, Matt Hudson, Elizabeth Daly, Hayden Bennett, Ida Scofano, Marlies Kunnen, Lucy Walker, Sky Bembury, Alice Jeffrey, Jules Cross, Katherine Wootton, Helen Jackson, Jeremy Small, Catherine Ion, Michael Johnson, Tash Muntoni, Chris Penney, Eddie Register, Clive Eliot, Alexis Coward, Cara Baressi, Abi Deffee, Beccy Reese, Peter Cabrera, Rob Timbrell, Zoe Ashdown, Ciaran Cunningham, Helen Niland, Will Baltyn, Stephen Russell, Matt Matravers, Simon Hill, Julia Collier, Alex Wheeler, Rebecca Ison, Alexandra Mackenzie-Smith, Catlin Homes, Richard Evans, Nigel Barker, Sarah Lowes, Leila Mountford, Rebecca Shoot, Rob Britton, Melissa Reardon, Dave Balfour, Tom Mannings, David Crackles, Claire Stone and Alan Maddrell

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!

If you’ve taken part this season and loved it, or seen a show and thought “oooh that looks fun”, or are eager to just throw in your lot with the coolest amateur theatre company in London, our newcomers will be in MAY and details will be coming out soon about our sensationally sizzling Summer season of one act wonders at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden!

See you in Summer!

Andy Marchant
Your ever Lovin’ Chair

The War of the Waleses – EXTRA PERFORMANCE

Hear ye, Hear ye, this is your Chairman speaking!

Due to the sell out success of KDC Theatre’s contribution to the RSC Open Stages project, our hosts for this season at the Lion and Unicorn, Giant Olive Theatre Company have agree to let us squeeze in one extra show, a Matinee at 2.30pm on Saturday 14th April.

Make sure you don’t miss out on this final opportunity to see Sarah Heenan’s all singing, dancing, multimedia Shakespearean history, Queen of our Hearts, New Danger, Back to Basics 90s classics show in its entirety before its Questors showcase on April 26th! Remember there are now ONLY 60 tickets left (£12 each, £8 concessions)

To book tickets, go to http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=504256 – no email reservations are now being taken.

Come and support the guys in the final show of the fantastically popular Spring Season of KDC Theatre 2012!

See you there!

Marchie

The War of the Waleses – SOLD OUT!

All five nights of KDC’s new play, The War of the Waleses, are sold out online – but you can always chance your arm and turn up on the night at the Lion & Unicorn, Kentish Town.

However, KDC will be presenting a showcase performance as part of the RSC Open Stages at the Questors Theatre, Ealing, on 26 April.  So if you missed out this week, book now for the showcase!

http://www.questors.org.uk/notes.aspx?nId=%2046&id=338