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• Box Set Summer Festival

  • Start
    27/07/2024
  •  
    10:00
  • End
    03/08/2024
  •  
    22:00
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Box Set Summer Festival
  10 PLAYS in 8 DAYS.

  27 JULY - 3 AUGUST 2024

  
  This summer, Putney Arts Theatre hosts its own mini Edinburgh Festival as Putney Theatre Company  presents a series of short plays by some of the UK’s best playwrights during a week of celebration for the theatre’s 60th year.

  A repertory of 10 award-winning plays  forms the centrepiece of eight days of festivities, as we throw open the doors of the theatre, welcoming you all to a dazzling world of comedy, drama and family entertainment.   

  
  

  BOX SET SUMMER FESTIVAL SCHEDULE 

  
  

  For information on the plays and performance times please scroll past the booking calendar.

  A note on ticketing, please see the list of plays for performance times, select the date and time on the grid below to buy tickets.  Each performance time will list the play being performed in the ticket listings. For a 5 or 10 ticket pass, please purchase a ticket to the first event you would like to attend.  The last bookable show to be able to see all 10 shows is the Thursday 1st August performance of Not Talking.  The deadline to see 5 shows is Saturday 3rd August's showing of Bobby and Amy at 2pm.

  Need help with ticket purchasing, want to request a companion ticket or move tickets around? We're here to help, just email us on info@putneyartstheatre.org.uk

  HOW TO SPOT AN ALIEN - SPECIAL TICKET DEAL!
  2 kids (under 10) go free with 2 paying adults!
  Please contact the Box Office directly on 020 8788 6943 to book.

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  Plays, Performance Dates & Times

   A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy
  Rory's dad always wanted to visit the North Pole. Now it’s too late for him, but not for Rory. Bearing her dad’s ashes, she sets off in the footsteps of the great explorers, to get her dad to the top of the world. A moving and funny coming-of-age story, and a journey like no other – one that’s sure to melt your heart.

  PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES

  Saturday 27th July, 12 midday
  Tuesday 30th July, 7.30pm
  Saturday 3rd August, 12 midday

  Bobby & Amy by Emily Jenkins
  Bobby and Amy are 16-year-old misfits and friends from a small, West Country village. Against the backdrop of a terrible agricultural epidemic playing out across rural England, two actors recreate a whole community in an award-winning story of courage, loyalty, endurance… and saving a cow called Abigail.

  PERFORMANCE DATES & TIME

  Sunday 28th July, 10am
  Monday 29th July, 9pm                                                                                                                  Saturday 3rd August, 2pm

  Borders by Henry Naylor
  A celebrated war photographer who once had an audience with Osama bin Laden. A young Syrian, six months pregnant, on an ageing fishing boat in the Mediterranean, sinking fast under the weight of refugees. Two stories, interwoven in Henry Naylor’s multi-award-winning play about one of the great crises of our time.

  PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES

  Sunday 28th July, 2pm
  Wednesday 31st July, 9pm
  Saturday 3rd August, 6pm

  Comment is Free by James Fritz
  Alastair Cooper is a journalist with opinions on everything and everyone. But, as he’s soon to find out, everyone also has an opinion on him – and it's a dangerous world out there. In acclaimed author James Fritz's award-winning satire, a shocking event is the catalyst for a chilling up-to-the-minute exploration of the darker side of social media.

  PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES

  Saturday 27th July, 9pm
  Sunday 28th July, 6pm
  Friday 2nd August, 9pm

  Edgar & Annabel by Sam Holcroft
  A young couple preparing dinner. It's a familiar scene, but the script they'refollowing is more than just a menu... one wrong word could blow everything apart. Could the mundane activities of married life be the perfect cover for a dangerous act of rebellion? Sam Holcroft's dystopian thriller is a gripping story of role-play and revolution, where life hangs by a thread.

  PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES

  Saturday 27th July, 2pm
  Sunday 28th July, 4pm
  Thursday 1st August, 7.30pm

  Growth by Luke Norris
  Tobes is young, free and having a ball… off. He's been ignoring his lump for two years but it's starting to get in the way – cramping his style and his sex life. So now there are pants to be dropped and decisions to be made... A ball-achingly funny comedy about growing up and manning up, one that's sure to tickle your fancy.

  PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES

  Saturday 27th July, 6pm
  Friday 2nd August, 7.30pm
  Saturday 3rd August, 9pm

  How to Date a Feminist by Samantha Ellis
  Kate likes her men tall, dark and smouldering. She has a fatal attraction to bad boys. Then she meets Steve… and Steve is a feminist. Do we ever really choose who we fall for? Two actors play all the roles in Samantha Ellis’s fast-paced, brilliantly funny spin on the Hollywood rom-com.

  PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES

  Sunday 28th July, 12 midday
  Wednesday 31st July, 7.30pm
  Saturday 3rd August, 7.30pm

  How to Spot an Alien by Georgia Christou
  An out-of-this-world adventure for anyone aged six to six hundred (aliens included). When Jelly and Jonjo's mother mysteriously disappears, the twins are taken in by their very strange aunt, and soon find themselves on a rollercoaster rocket ride through space, dodging black holes and trying to spot intergalactic beasties. A fantastic escapade for all the family, full of fun, friendship and flying saucers.

  HOW TO SPOT AN ALIEN - SPECIAL TICKET DEAL!
  2 kids (under 10) go free with 2 paying adults!
  Please contact the Box Office directly on 020 8788 6943 to book.

  PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES

  Saturday 27th July, 10am
  Monday 29th July, 7.30pm
  Saturday 3rd August, 10am

  How We Begin by Elisabeth Leweren
  Helen and Diana are best friends. They love being together. Spending time together. Maybe they should be more than friends? There’s just one problem:  Diana has a boyfriend. A beautiful, tender exploration of love, queerness and identity, full of joy and absolutely no (ok, maybe just a few) regrets.

  PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES

  Saturday 27th July, 7.30pm
  Tuesday 30th July, 9pm
  Saturday 3rd August, 4pm

  Not Talking by Mike Bartlett
  Two couples, two stories, things not being spoken about. James avoided taking action; can his marriage to Lucy survive? Mark failed to stop an act of sexual violence; can Amanda find a way to deal with the consequences? Is silence a weapon, or the only way to protect yourself? A powerful, healing play from one of our leading playwrights. Content advice: Not Talking contains discussion of an act of sexual violence and its aftermath.

  PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES

  Saturday 27th July, 4pm
  Sunday 28th July, 7.30pm
  Thursday 1st August, 9pm

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• Box Set Festival - Workshop

  • When
    29/07/2024
  •  
    17:00 - 19:00
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  

  Page to Stage: The Decisions

  Workshop Facilitator:
  Geoff Saunders

  Monday 29 July 5-7PM, Studio
  Based on one of the PTC workshops run over Zoom during lockdown, this will allow each participant a taste (or reminder) of the early decision-making process when directing, or taking a part in, a play. Most of the workshop will be practical and experiential and will – it is hoped – be lots of fun.

  

  Geoff Saunders has been involved in amateur theatre and indie films for many years, primarily as a writer, with over twenty plays and screenplays to his name. With PTC he has acted, directed and taken the role of dramaturg; his indie film credits include Assistant Director and Production Designer. He taught Drama on the Skills for Performing Arts course at Lewisham College for several years.

  
  

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• Box Set Festival - Workshop

  • When
    30/07/2024
  •  
    17:00 - 19:00
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Impro – making it up as you go along -
  an introduction to narrative improvisation

  Workshop Facilitator:
  Richard Ahsam

  Tuesday 30 July 5-7PM, Studio

  We’ve all seen Who’s line is it Anyway or Mock the Week. You just say the first (hopefully) funny thing that comes out of your head. Well – that’s that workshop finished with.

  I would like to introduce you to Narrative improvisation. The ability to tell an extended story with a group of creatives.

  “I’m going to make it up as I go along – It doesn’t need an introduction” Yes and No!
  Yes - I would like you to say the first thing that comes into your head.
  No - that first thing is not going to stop that story from ever developing to reach its full potential.

  There are pitfalls with just taking a story and running with it and in this session, I hope we discover what some of those are and overcome them to tell a cracking story.  Afterall drama is just telling stories – isn’t it?

  

  Richard Ahsam is an actor, playwright, teacher and dreamer.   Many years ago, I used to run the youth theatre with my wife Suki, when it was Group 64 but all of those young people are all grown up with children of their own – hopefully they are very happy. I was a cast member of the first improvised soap opera and have been teaching impro ever since. I used to run summer schools in Kent where the group would come up with whatever they wanted.  It was always interesting. I recently worked on an immersive history project in Hastings. I am now of an age where I get to play Santa.  How cool is that?

  
  

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• Box Set Festival - Workshop

  • When
    31/07/2024
  •  
    17:00 - 19:00
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  Music & Sound Design

  Workshop Facilitator:
  Nick Wells

  Wednesday 31 July, 5-7PM, Studio

  Music and sound effects are critical elements of a production. Although their main function is to support the text and the flow of action, sound design heightens the audience experience and works alongside the cast to conjure the magic of the theatre.

  The session will show you how to work with the director's vision, search for sound effects, record your own sounds, find appropriate music, or create new work to combine into a series of sound cues for a show. The workshop will highlight how the backstage and tech teams work together with the director and the cast, and provide insights in how to engage with the script, use sound libraries, manage folders and file transfer, juggle different apps, and create a set of sound cues for the sound operator of the production. 

  Bring a USB stick with 5 sounds and let's see how we could use those in a play setting.

  

  Writer, musician and sound designer,
  Nick Wells is the editor of Lights Up! the Putney Theatre Company podcast. Most recently he created the original score for The Lovely Bones (dir. Frances Bodiam), and current projects include original music and sound design for Borders by Henry Finlay (dir. Paul Dineen). 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 2024 and 2025.

  
  

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• Box Set Festival - Workshop

  • When
    02/08/2024
  •  
    17:00 - 19:00
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  How to write and perform
  your own material
  
  Workshop Facilitator:
  Annabel Miller
  Friday 2 August 5-7PM, Studio

  Do you have an idea for a play, or a monologue?  Are you struggling with how to get these ideas written into a cohesive script?  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 and any ideas you already have.

  

  Annabel Miller  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 this year for a run at the Putney Arts Theatre

  .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.

  
  

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• Flare Path by Terrance Rattigan

  • Start
    24/09/2024
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  • End
    28/09/2024
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    Putney Arts Theatre

  

  FLARE PATH
  by Terrance Rattigan
  
  Directed by Ian Higham
  
  24-28 September, 7.45pm
  Matinee  28 September, 3pm
  
  Written in 1941 and first staged in London in 1942 Flare Path is based around Rattigan’s own experience as a tail gunner in RAF Coastal Command.

  Set in a hotel near an RAF Bomber Command Airbase in Lincolnshire during the Second World War the play focusses on a love triangle between an actress (the wife of a Wellington Bomber pilot) and a Hollywood actor. The action plays out against a night time bombing raid on Germany, while the women wait together to hear about the fate of the crew.

  Flare Path is a deeply moving, funny and compelling portrait of the bravery and stoicism of RAF Bomber crews and their wives during World War Two. This story and setting provides the perfect showcase for Rattigan’s unique ability to portray the struggle to keep powerful emotions hidden from view while presenting a ‘proper’ respectable face to the world, even in the hardest of situations.

  
  

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