Late notice: Halloween Party this Saturday 26 October at the Hoop & Grapes, Farringdon Road.
Shocktails. Fancy Dress. Movie screenings. See you there!
Category: Social Events
Round Table Readings – Winter 2013
There are going to be two new writing round tables this season – both at the Hoop & Grapes, Farringdon Street. If you’ve never been to one, just turn up, read or listen and enjoy some never-before-heard plays.
Tuesday, 1 October
Ping Pong – Eddie Coleman
A group of friends learn some life lessons over a game of table tennis.
Casual Encounters – Andy Moseley
James Rogers wants to try wife swapping. Jennifer Rogers doesn’t want to be swapped. Luckily for her, neither do their prospective partners. Unluckily for her, they want something entirely different for their evening’s entertainment.
Tuesday, October 8th
Opening Pandora’s Box – Susan Gray
An artist buys a humanoid robot to be his ‘muse’. However he finds out that there are some things that machines can’t provide, like friendship.
Newcomers Winter 2013
Each season we hold a Newcomers Meeting where the directors will tell you more about their plays and the audition process. It’s a great way to find out more about the season and of course you can quiz the directors and committee too.
Date: Thursday 12 September
Time: Join us from 7pm for a drink. The meeting will start at 7.30pm
Venue: The White Swan, 20 Farringdon Street, Farringdon, EC4A 4AB
Roundtable Readings – Thursday 11 July
We’re running a roundtable reading on Thursday (11 July) @ Hoop and Grapes from 7pm.
Everyone is welcome, there’s no need to prepare anything.
The plays are Casual Encounters and Status Quo
Casual Encounters by Andy Moseley [2m & 2f and 1 m/f]
An experiment in wife-swapping goes badly wrong. A chance to hear it before it appears at the Etcetera Theare (August 15-18th)
Status Quo by Brian Eastwick [1m and 1f]
A banker and his wife see their world fall apart.
Return of the Round Table Readings
This Thursday, 6 June, the Round Table Readings return with a bang to our spiritual home, the Hoop and Grapes.
Matthew Partridge will be hosting the event where we read and feed back on two plays from members and new friends.
It’s FREE to attend, and we need voices and ears and your own thoughts on the pieces. Kick off is 7pm. Don’t miss out, these things are SO much fun.
Thirsty Thursday 7 March
Don’t forget! With rehearsals well underway for the Spring Season, it’s time for another Thirsty Thursday social at the Hoop & Grapes, Farringdon Street. From 7.30pm, we’ll be at our favourite haunt with an opportunity for casts, crews and friends new and old alike to meet up. See you there!
Round Table Readings
After a great evening listening to The Player Played by Matthew Partridge (a sequel to a sequel of a Shakespeare!) , we have three Round Table Readings left in the calendar, all from 7pm at Ocean House, Little Trinity Lane:
Thursday 8 November – The Mother’s Always Certain by Doug Baker
Tuesday 13 November – Rumble Young Lady Rumble by Yasir Senna
Tuesday 20 November – Lucky by Amy Bird
We need participants to read, listen and give feedback. It is, as ever, a free event and you don’t need to have been involved in any previous KDC productions.
Return of the Round Table
Tonight, Tuesday 6 November, at The Hoop & Grapes, 80 Farringdon Street, features the return of the Round Table New Writing Readings.
We’ve already had our specially themed “What The Dickens!?” reading nights, but we have FOUR other reading nights lined up for you, starting tonight with The Player Played by Matthew Partridge.
We need readers! We need listeners! We need feedback!
This is a fantastic opportunity to see the development of a plat in it’s first scripted draft!
It’s FREE to attend and all you need to bring is yourself!
See you there!
What the Dickens! Part Two
This Thursday, 25 October, at Ocean House, between Little Trinity Lane and Huggin Hill, City of London, sees the second of this season’s special Ghost Stories, written and read by KDC, and adapted from the great Charles Dickens. Dickens was fascinated with the ghostly and the spiritual, and to celebrate that, and our FIRST EVER Halloween season, we would like to invite you to enjoy some ghoulish tales.
As the evenings draw in and Hallow’een approaches, what better way to celebrate the season and the coming of KDC’s Dracula than by pulling up a chair in a disused building and listening to spooky takes of spectral visitations newly-penned by the ink-stained fingers of our shivering scribes and read by some of KDC’s most sinister voices.
This week’s brand new plays are:
The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton, by Mary Groom
The Lawyer and the Ghost, by Amy Bird
The Signalman, by Julia Collier
Sir Simon of Beverly Hills, by Kathy Petrakis
The Chimes, by Sarah Heenan
The readings will be from 7pm at Ocean House. We will be haunting the 1st floor. Please feel free to bring food and drink to add to your enjoyment of the occasion, plastic cups and some Victorian vittles will be provided!
Come and enjoy an evening with friends and come to enjoy the first ever readings of some new work.
KDC Halloween Spooktacular Haunt
Friday 2 November, from 8pm at Hoop & Grapes, Farringdon Street.
Our name is KDC,
We bid you welcome
To the night of the dead
And the heart of the Autumn.
We’re having a party
You’re in for a scare
It’s a Halloween bash
So dress up if you dare!
A beverage awaits
For those that are willing
To dress to impress
The cocktails are killing!
But beware the red wine
It is old, however,
Take a sip from the cup
And you’ll live forever!!!!
We’re dying to hear from you…