KDC Theatre Summer 2025 Season Launch

Want to learn about KDC Theatre and our upcoming Summer Season show, Solstice? Come along to KDC’s Season Launch at the Theatre Deli Leadenhall Bar at 7.30pm on Friday 2nd May 2025.

KDC SUMMER SEASON LAUNCH

Friday 2nd May 2025, 7.30pm
Theatre Deli Leadenhall bar
107 Leadenhall St, London EC3A 4AF

Hear the showrunner and directors talk about the production and answer your questions. You can also find out more about getting involved with KDC Theatre, including backstage roles.

To help us manage numbers, please let us know you’re coming by filling in this short form. Feel free to come along and meet the team!

Summer 2025 show: Full stack – actors needed!

Announcing auditions for our summer production!

Our 9th annual Full Stack show will be staged at the Rosemary Branch Theatre, London from Sat 21 June to Mon 23 June 2025.

The winning plays of our writing competition Full Stack will be staged by our directors, in an anthology show of short plays about the solstice. Each play will feature the solstice in one way or another; a change, a sunset or sunrise, or transitions. You can check out the original prompt here.

For more information, check out the audition notice here: Solstice

Auditions are free and open to all. Please choose one of the dates to attend and read the audition notice to prepare. We are expecting Tuesday to be busier.

Don’t forget to fill out the audition form before you audition!

Dates: Mon 5 May (Theatre Deli) or Tues 6th May (The Cockpit Theatre) 2025
Time: 19:00-22:00
Location: Monday: Theatre Deli, 107 Leadenhall Street, London EC3A 4AF (near Bank or Liverpool St station)
Tuesday: The Cockpit Theatre, Gatefort St, London NW8 8EH (near Marylebone or Edgware Road)

Recalls by invitation on Sat 10 May, 15:00-18:00, The Cockpit Theatre. Don’t worry if you can’t make the whole block of time, but please do flag this at first round auditions.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Do You Feel Anger?

KDC Theatre presents “Do You Feel Anger?” by Mara Nelson-Greenberg
Directed by Anna Markland and Dean Reilly

1 – 5 April 2025
at Barons Court Theatre
Tickets: £16.50 (KDC members £12)

About

Written during Donald Trump’s first term in office, Do You Feel Anger? is a surreal dark comedy exploring whether you can achieve compromise, without compromising your values.

Sofia is an empathy coach, hired to help a debt collection agency stop screaming at people on the phone. Whilst dealing with her own family difficulties, she is determined to teach the employees emotions beyond anger, hunger and horn. But the longer she struggles to make change happen, the more she finds herself drawn into the dangerous absurdity of what passes for normal.

Cast:
Sofia: Arianna Kozloski
Eva: Rhiannon Lewis
Howie: Simon Berry
Jordan: Sarmed Hyder
Jon: Martin Peacock
Janie / Sofia’s mum: Jenni Wredden
Rafalgore: Bernard O’Sullivan

Creative team:
Directors: Anna Markland and Dean Reilly

Breathing Room

KDC Theatre presents “Breathing Room”
Directed by Carl Fletcher

8 – 12 April 2025
at Drayton Arms Theatre
Tickets: £16.50 (KDC members £12)

About

At 25, Emily insists her city life is perfect – or so she tells herself and anyone who will listen!

A sudden phone call pulls her back to her rural hometown, forcing her to face old friends, family, and the unsettling question: what now? When life stops giving you a roadmap, is a Quarter Life Crisis inevitable?

Breathing Room is a new devised ensemble play about the messiness of adulthood.

Cast:
Clare McKervey
Elisa Benham
Harmony Chan
Matt Hoisch
Nikos Kipouros
Phoebe Vasconcellos
Sarah Jost

Creative team:
Director: Carl Fletcher
Assistant Director: Freddie Wride
Lighting Design: Flick Hemming

Content warnings: Mild discussions of bullying, infertility

Spring season 2025 auditions

Announcing auditions for actors for our spring 2025 productions!

We have two shows in spring 2025, and you can audition for both on the same day!

Do You Feel Anger?
Written by Mara Nelson-Greenberg
Directed by Anna Markland and Dean Reilly
Staged at Barons Court Theatre from 1 to 5 April 2025
Audition notice

The Quarter-Life Crisis
To be devised by the cast
Directed by Carl Fletcher
Staged at Drayton Arms Theatre from 8 to 12 April 2025
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 20 or Wed 22 January 2025 (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 25 January 2025, 12-6pm 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 Spring Season Launch on Wednesday 8 January 2025, 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, if you’re planning to come to our Season Launch, please RSVP at the link here.

We look forward to seeing you at auditions soon!

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.

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)

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)

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

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!

X
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!