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• Whipping It Up

  • Start
    18/08/2026
  •  
    19:45
  • End
    22/08/2026
  •  
    22:00
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Whipping it Up 

  

  By Steve Thompson,

  Directed by Ian Wainwright & Milly Gladstone

  Tuesday 18 - Saturday  22 August 19:45 with afternoon matinee at 15:00 on Saturday 22 August.

  Putney Arts Theatre - Studio

  About the play:
  

  A quick-witted political satire set in the Whips' office at Westminster, Whipping it Up is a play about the grubby wheeling and dealing that go on behind the scenes and off camera as the Whips employ any means at their disposal in order to get wavering MPs to vote the 'right' way.

  It's a week before Christmas in an alternative 2010, and the new Tory government is facing dissent over its latest Bill. With a majority of only three, the Whips' office is out in full force, and they’Il stop at nothing to keep the strays in line. Written in the twilight of the last Labour government, the play explores privilege, class and fears about what happens when the “old boys club” seize power.

  Cast List:

  Alastair - Jim Dixon

  Tim - Will Hunter 

  Cheif Whip - Perry Kitchen 

  Delia - Saffron Miller 

  Guy - Graham White 

  Maggie - Charlotte McCormack

  
  

  Crew List:

  Co-Directors - Ian Wainwright & Milly Glastone

  Production - Alexa Adam

  Stage Manager - Deborah

  Stage Designer - Robyn

  Lighting Designer - Hayden Lee

  Sound Designer - 

  Costume Designer - Alexa Adam

  
  

  This amateur production of “Whipping it Up" is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books Ltd 

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• Till the Stars Come Down

  • Start
    22/09/2026
  •  
    19:45
  • End
    26/09/2026
  •  
    22:00
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Till the Stars Come Down

  

  By Beth Steel

  Directed by Frances Bodiam

  Tuesday 22 - Saturday  26 September 19:45 with afternoon matinee at 15:00 on Saturday 26 September.

  Putney Arts Theatre - Main Stage

  About the play:
  

  Till The Stars Come Down is both hilarious and tragic family drama. It’s full of love and loss, secrets and lies, humour and despair. The action is played out during one day in a former mining town in Nottinghamshire.

  It's the day of Sylvia’s wedding to Marek and the family is excited and overflowing with good wishes for their future happiness, until the vodka starts flowing, and resentments and secrets threaten the day’s harmony….

  Beth Steel's play Till the Stars Come Down premiered at the National Theatre in January 2024 and transferred to the West End in 2025. The play was shortlisted for Best Play at the 2025 Standard Theatre Awards.

  Review Quotes for National Theatre production of Till The Stars Come Down:

  'Beth Steel's play has it all: the earthy humour tingling with originality, the canvas both big and small and the larger-than-life characters bouncing to life before us in pain, joy, and laughter... a masterclass in multi-layered conversational naturalism... rollicking, complex and bearing the tragic inevitability of Greek drama'

  Guardian

  'Stunning... a modern classic... a magnificent combination of earthiness and explosions of half-suppressed emotion... It's a mighty achievement'

  The Times

  'Beautifully observed and often bruisingly hilarious... a rich, multifaceted character study of an entire family... you'd have to be made of stone not to laugh like a drain... it's wonderfully written, building to a dynamite final scene... a funny, heartbreaking piece of writing'

  Time Out

  Cast List:

  Hazel - Sarah Perkins

  Maggie - Lizzie Iredale

  Sylvia - Emily Kate Dixon

  Aunty Carol - Jodi Rilot

  Tony - Paul Bradley

  John - Tom Thornton

  Pete - Roger Blitz

  Marek - Aaron Thakar

  Leanne - Zoe Pearson

  Sarah - Sophie McGrath

  Ensemble (neighbours, waiters, wedding guests):

  Alexa Adam

  Sophie Brown

  Helen Wood

  Sarah Kitchen

  Libby Talberg

  Monika Czaińska

  
  

  Creative and Crew:

  Director - Frances Bodiam

  Assistant & Movement Director - Penny Weatherall

  Production Manager - Sarah Jillings

  Production and Sound Design - Nick Wells

  Original Music - Nick Wells, Simon Herd, Harry Pavlou, Nicole Pavlou

  Lighting Design - Rich and Kathryn Evans

  Stage Manager - Helen Wood

  Operator/ASM - Kate Lawrence

  Set/ASM - Libby Talberg

  ASM - Monika Czaińska

  Costume - Emily Fletcher

  Costume Consultant - Simon Crump

  This amateur production of "Till the Stars Come Down" is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.

  
  

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