Upcoming Productions

Switch to Calendar View

• The Bleeding Tree

  • Start
    20/05/2025
  •  
  • End
    24/05/2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  The Bleeding Tree

  By Angus Cerini

  Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 May

  7.45pm

  Matinee, Saturday 24 May - 3pm

  Age suitability 15+

  
  

  In a dirt-dry Australian town, a gunshot shatters the still night. A mother and her daughters have just welcomed home the man of the house — with a crack to the shins and a bullet to the neck. With a body to dispose of and neighbours asking awkward questions, their story unfolds with raw, rude, and brutally funny intensity.

  The Bleeding Tree is an Australian Gothic murder ballad. It's the story of three fierce women fighting back. Described as “dangerous, deep, and devastatingly beautiful,” it’s a razor-sharp thriller and a hauntingly tense, visceral exploration of revenge, complicity, and survival.

  With its dark humour, poetic beauty, and searing wit, it is theatre at its boldest and most unforgettable.

  The Bleeding Tree was first produced by Griffin Theatre Company, 7 August 2015 at the SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney, Australia

  
  

  Buy Tickets

  Show details
• WAF @ PAT

  • Start
    06/06/2025
  •  
    19:00
  • End
    22/06/2025
  •  
    22:00
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  WAF @ PAT

  
  

  6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 June

  Various Times

  WAF@PAT will feature seven plays (six for adult audiences and two for children), together with workshops, new writing, cabaret, music and other activities. The plays will be performed over the course of three weekends, Friday to Sunday: 6, 7, 8 June, 13, 14, 15 June and 20, 21, 22 June. Each play will have three performances.

  To see more about each piece in detail, please click on the titles below.

  
  

  Putney Plays - Black Mountain

  Putney Plays - Fairytaleheart

  Putney Plays - Taken

  Putney Plays - Glory Dazed

  Putney Plays - The Actor's Nightmare

  Putney Plays - There

  First Look - New Writing

  Cabaret Night

  
  

  For children and families

  The Gardener

  Spreading the Joy

  
  

  Show details
• Putney Plays: Black Mountain

  • Start
    06/06/2025
  •  
  • End
    08/06/2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Putney Plays -

  Black Mountain

  by Brad Birch

  
  

  Directed by 

  Justin Hopper

  
  

  Production dates:

  Friday 6th June 7.45pm

  Saturday 7th June 4.30pm

  Sunday 8th June 8pm

  
  

  You were out here. Before. But I waited. I waited until it was dark.

  Rebecca and Paul are running away to try to save their relationship. A remote mountain lodge is the perfect place to work things out. The set themselves boundaries, but their half-honourable attempts don't last long. The situation is further complicated by the appearance of Paul's former lover, Helen, who seems to have a mysterious agenda of her own. You can't run forever, especially when you're being followed. Brad Birch's tense psychological thriller about infidelity, betrayal and revenge will leave your heart pounding. 

  
  

  Buy Tickets

  Show details
• First Look - New Writing

  • Start
    07/06/2025
  •  
  • End
    22/06/2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  First Look - New Writing

  Saturday 7th June 2.30pm

  Saturday 14th June 2.30pm

  Sunday 22nd June 2pm

  
  

  Come along and enjoy a variety of brand new work fresh off the page by Putney Theatre Company's writers. Expect a first look at new writing for theatre in development.

  
  

  Buy Tickets

  Show details
• Putney Plays - Fairytaleheart

  • Start
    07/06/2025
  •  
  • End
    15/06/2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Putney Plays -

  Fairytaleheart

  by Philip Ridley
  directed by Zachary Matcham

  Saturday 7th June 6.30pm

  Sunday 8th June 4pm

  Sunday 15th June 2pm

  In our dreams we have already faced this monster. We are not afraid.

  Kirsty and Gideon bump into each other in a derelict community centre. Through sharing their hopes, fears, and past experiences, they come to terms with their broken families. The pair's stories help them to discover they have a lot more in common than they initially thought. Poetic and tender, Philip Ridley's play observes the grown up attitude beneath the minds of the teenagers.

  Buy Tickets

  Show details
• Cabaret

  • Start
    07/06/2025
  •  
  • End
    21/06/2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Cabaret

  Saturday 7th June 8.30pm

  Saturday 14th June 8.30pm

  Sunday 21st June 8.30pm

  
  

  It's cabaret night at Putney Arts Theatre, join us for an evening of entertainment by Putney Theatre Company and friends.
  

  
  

  Buy Tickets

  Show details
• The Gardener

  • Start
    08/06/2025
  •  
  • End
    22/06/2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  The Gardener

  by Mike Kenny

  directed by Perry Kitchen

  Sunday 8th June 10am

  Sunday 15th June 12.15pm

  Sunday 22nd June 10am

  Yesterday seems far away. And long ago is like today.

  Joe has a new baby sister and nobody wants to play with him. Uncle Harry has no one to play with either and he needs help in the garden. As the seasons change they find a common bond as they tend the plants and come to terms with the challenges of childhood and of aging. Mike Kenny's play for children of six or older, and their parents and grandparents, is a masterclass in storytelling using rhymes, rhythms, and fun.

  
  

  Buy Tickets

  Show details
• Workshops

  • Start
    08/06/2025
  •  
    12:00
  • End
    22/06/2025
  •  
    16:30
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  WAF @ PAT Workshops         

  Over the Wandsworth Arts Fringe dates in June, we'll be holding an array of workshops for members and their friends.  To book your place on any of the workshops

  Sunday 8th June:

  Intro to Dance by Helen Wood/Lyndall Brown 12pm

  Intro to Dance: Come along to this beginner friendly dance workshop! Ever be

  en intrigued by musical theatre, or want to feel more confident next time there's a 'movement' section in your next audition? This workshop is for you! We'll use this hour to get used to some basic choreography to some of your favourite show tunes. Come for a giggle, box step and community! 

  The art of writing a Monologue by Annabel Miller 2:00pm 

  Annabel is a professional actor and writer. Following a corporate career she undertook a scriptwriting course at

  the Central School of Speech and Drama and then studied

   acting at Drama Studio London. In 2023 she wrote and performed her debut

  play 'Veiled' a one-woman show focusing on women facing various mid-life crises: parenting, work-based sexism, relationships and mental health. This sold out at both the New Wimbledon Studio, and again last year for a run at the Putney Arts Studio. Acting credits include various harassed mums in adverts as well as recent

   theatre roles: Betty in Larkin with Women (Old Red Lion), Maggie in Look Behind you (The Tabard) and Melanie in When We Were Normal(Rose Theatre). She can be heard on BBC Sounds in the radio play LUSUS, and appears in the Bafta- award winning game Dead Man's Phone. She is currently writing her first full-length play.

  The Workshop: The art of writing a monologue.

  Do you have an idea for a monologue, or a one-person show? Are you struggling with how to get these ideas written into a cohesive script and actually finished? Would you ideally want to perform your work? Join me for a fun and interactive workshop where I will help you get started, share my own writing techniques and disciplines, introduce you to the story arc, and by the end of the session get you up on your feet performing something that you have written. Please bring: a notebook and pen or laptop, and any ideas you already have.

  
  

  Saturday 14th June:

  Spoken Word by Angel Witney 12pm

  Intro to Song by Richard Campbell 4:30pm

  
  

  Saturday 21st June: 

  Music and Sound Design Workshop with Nick Wells 2:30pm

  Building on the success of last year’s Box Set Festival, we will highlight how the backstage and tech teams work together with the director and cast. The session will show you how to create your own audio effects, search for sounds, find appropriate music, or create new work to combine into a series of sound cues for a show. The workshop will share insights on how to engage with the script, use sound libraries, manage folders and file transfers, juggle different apps, and create a set of sound cues for the sound operator of the production.

  We’ll finish by creating a short radio play based on sounds found in the session, so be prepared to participate!

  Writer, musician and sound designer, Nick Wells created the underscore for The Lovely Bones (dir. Frances Bodiam), Borders by Henry Finlay (dir. Paul Dineen) and the sound design for Rattigan’s Flare Path (die Ian Higham) and Alligators (dir. Amanda Benzecry).

  He's played in bands, written songs and arrangements and recently remastered the soundtrack albums of Allen Stroud’s Lave Revolutions and The Fractal Series. He's currently writing new tracks for release in 2025 and 2026. Nick is also the editor of Lights Up! the Putney Theatre Company podcast.

  
  

  Sunday 22nd June:

  Page to Stage with Geoff Saunders 12:00pm 

  Page to Stage: The Decisions

  Facilitated by Geoff Saunders, PTC New Writing Co-ordinator, writer of THANKS FOR HAVING US and writer/director of THERE

  This workshop will give each participant a taste of the early decision-making process when directing, or taking a part in, a play. Most of the workshop will be practical and experiential; you’ll get to act and/or direct a short piece and try out ideas in an experimental safe space where every contribution is valuable!

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Buy Tickets

  Show details
• Putney Plays - Taken

  • Start
    08/06/2025
  •  
  • End
    15/06/2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Putney Plays -

  Taken

  by Winsome Pinnock
  

  directed by Aiste Mizgeryte

  Sunday 8th June 6pm

  Saturday 14th June 6.30pm

  Sunday 15th June 8pm

  You’re not real. You’re just another one of them ghosts.

  In a north London council flat, Della, a recovering addict, barely has time to catch her breath before she is face-to-face with Nola, the daughter she was forced to give up. But the young woman with the pram sipping tea in her living room may not be all she seems. Nana Nola, Della’s mother, has a memory that is starting to play tricks on her, but she is still sharp enough to sense when something isn’t right. As time bends and the weight of the past presses in, three generations of women must navigate old wounds, unspoken truths, and the aching need for redemption. Winsome Pinnock’s gripping drama is a story of love, loss, and the desperate search for a flicker of hope in the shadows of yesterday.

  
  

  Buy Tickets

  Show details
• Putney Plays: Glory Dazed

  • Start
    13/06/2025
  •  
  • End
    22/06/2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Putney Plays -

  Glory Dazed
  

  by Cat Jones

  
  

  directed by Paula Robinson

  Friday 13th June 7.45pm

  Sunday 15th June 6pm

  Sunday 22nd June 4pm

  Some of us don’t need to go to the desert to find out what fear is.

  Ex-squaddie Ray - mentally scarred from his time in Afghanistan - returns home to Doncaster to attempt to see his kids and reconcile with his ex-wife, Carla - mentally scarred from her marriage to Ray. A pub lock-in provides the setting for the intense, darkly comic action that follows. Cat Jones’s award-winning play was developed in collaboration with ex-soldiers serving prison sentences.

  
  

  Buy Tickets

  Show details
• Putney Plays: The Actor's Nightmare

  • Start
    15/06/2025
  •  
  • End
    22/06/2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Putney Plays -

  The Actor's Nightmare

  by Christopher Durang

  
  

  directed by Ian Wainwright

  Sunday 15th June 4pm

  Saturday 21st June 6.30pm

  Sunday 22nd June 6pm

  Good luck tonight, George darling, we’re all counting on you.

  An actor stands alone on a stage, spotlit, and with an expectant audience gazing at him. But he has no idea what his next line is, or even what play he’s in. And why isn’t he wearing his trousers? American absurdist Christopher Durang harnesses every thespian’s most dreaded night terror to deliriously silly comic effect, as hapless and increasingly desperate protagonist George is swept up in a crazy stampede through theatrical genres from Noel Coward to Shakespeare.

  Buy Tickets

  Show details
• Putney Plays: There

  • Start
    20/06/2025
  •  
  • End
    22/06/2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Putney Plays -

  There

  by Geoff Saunders

  
  

  directed by Geoff Saunders & Richard Seedhouse

  Friday 20th June 7.45pm

  Saturday 21st June 4.30pm

  Sunday 22nd June 8pm

  Falling in, falling out, falling apart. How to handle friendships the grown-up way.

  London. Four pairs of friends. Adam and Lucas’s new friendship is tested when they discover they have very different values. Kirsty’s concern for her friend, Kate, becomes overbearing and just a bit strange. Sophie helps her old friend, Tanya, and soon realises that Tanya will say anything to get what she wants. Philip develops a powerful crush on his colleague, Jon, and puts their friendship in jeopardy. There starts with one friendship’s birth and finishes with the death of another; in between, the play explores obsession, race, political correctness, substance abuse, truth, lies, loyalty, treachery and forgiveness.

  
  

  Buy Tickets

  Show details
• Much Ado About Nothing

  • Start
    12/07/2025
  •  
    19:45
  • End
    10/08/2025
  •  
    22:00
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Much Ado About Nothing

  By William Shakespeare

  PTC on Tour: 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27 July and 1,2,9,10 August

  Directed by Stuart Watson

  I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

  Bantering bachelor Benedick's "merry war" of words with witty Beatrice seems fated to keep them apart, provoking their scheming friends to plot a happy ending for the quarrelsome couple.

  Meanwhile bashful young Claudio loves sweet, naïve Hero and is loved in return.  Nothing, it seems, can prevent their marriage.  But the path of true love never runs smooth.  Foul play is afoot as devious  Don John plots to split the young lovers asunder.

  Putney Theatre Company On Tour brings Shakespeare's dazzling comedy of romance, deceit and self-discovery to open-air venues around southwest London and beyond.  This concise, rollicking, sunny production will be "as merry as the day is long."

  PTC on Tour - Explained

  This production marks a new kind of project for the company as PTC go "on tour" to venues around London (we have produced open air shows in the past, some of which have been performed at two venues, but this will be our longest tour by far).

  We have arranged 10 performances over 5 weekends at 6 open-air venues, which are:

  Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th July: Lillington and Longmoore Gardens, Pimlico

  Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th July: The Winchester House Club, Putney

  Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th July: St Margaret's Church, Putney

  Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd August: Surrey Docks Farm, Rotherhithe

  Saturday 9th August: The Hurlingham Club, Fulham

  Sunday 10th  August: St Mary's Church, Mortlake

  
  

  Show details
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  • Start
    26/08/2025
  •  
    19:45
  • End
    30/08/2025
  •  
    22:00
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  By Mark Haddon, Play by Simon Stephens

  Tuesday 26th to Saturday 30th August with afternoon matinee 30th August

  Directed by Frances Bodiam

  The dog is dead. Pierced with a garden fork. Standing on the lawn in the middle of the night beside Wellington is fifteen-year-old Christopher. His neighbour and the police believe he is responsible.

  Determined to uncover the killer, Christopher turns detective, recording his findings in his special book. His quest will not be straightforward, however. He can remember all the world’s capital cities and every prime number up to seven thousand five hundred and seven, but he can’t bear being touched and he has never explored beyond the end of his road.

  Solving the mystery will turn Christopher’s small world on its head in this heartwarming, life-affirming and bleakly funny drama adapted from Haddon’s bestselling, award-winning novel. 

  First presented by the National Theatre in 2012 it garnered many accolades including the 2013 Olivier Award for Best Play and 2015 Tony Award for Best Play.

  
  

  
  

  Show details