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…

What the Dickens! Part One

“It has an awful voice, that wind at Midnight…Heaven preserve us, sitting snugly round the fire!”

What the Dickens New-Writing Project

This Thursday, 18 October, at the Hoop and Grapes sees the FIRST 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 City of London hostelry 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.

The readings will be from 7pm at The Hoop & Grapes. Come and enjoy an evening with a drink and friends and come to enjoy the first ever readings of some new work!

Pitches for Spring 2013

This is the month for you to put your directing minds, if you are so inclined, towards launching KDC Theatre into next year with some suggestions for our 2013 Spring Season.

We will be returning to our friends in Kentish Town at the Lion and Unicorn on weeks beginning 25th March, 1st April and 9th April, so as with last Spring, will be presenting THREE WEEKS of exciting and engaging shows. What are these shows you may ask? Well… right now that is up to you! We need YOU, our membership, to pitch to us!

If you have directed or produced or acted or stage managed for us before, we want to hear from you! If you have directed for one of our sister theatre companies like SLT, Tower, or SEDOS, we want to hear from you! If you’re interested in directing but want to build up some experience and attach yourself to the shows we choose, we want to hear from you!

Last Spring we embraced the Shakespearean. In Summer we went into the one act fringe world. This winter we are being seasonal. This is what we are looking for for our Spring Season:

1)      A classic play with a broad range of roles. Something established that can really bring in that sense of cast community that KDC loves to embrace. Something Greek with a chorus perhaps? Or a contemporary of Shakespeare? A hint of the fancy with something along the lines of Moliere, Goldsmith or Sheridan? Perhaps something from Oscar Wilde’s era takes your fancy?

2)      Directors for our new writing. We will be having readings this season of some of our work, as well as having plays already in our new writing bank on offer. Please email us to express an interest in this and we will send you further details of what’s in the bank.

3)      A KDC Spotlight. A cast of UP TO  four to really showcase our actors and directors with a smaller cast and a tighter focus. Last winter, Vic Craven brought us his extremely funny production of Talking Heads and this Summer we had Caryl Churchill’s two-hander A Number. So it could be a four person play, or it could be a series of monologues like Bash, or even something as intense as Waiting for Godot (rights permitting!)

The pitches are open NOW and will CLOSE ON SUNDAY 4th NOVEMBER.

We encourage our pitchers to come up with 2/3 options that we can consider, but the process is open to all. If you are interested, please drop me a line at chair@kdctheatre.com.

We hope to hear from you soon.