Veiled

Written and Performed by

Annabel Miller

 5th & 6th April, 8pm

3rd & 4th May, 8pm

This exuberant one-woman-show is a mix of comedy, poignancy and reveals and split into four acts linked by songs.  The play examines different arenas in the lives of four fifty-something year-old women at breaking points: workplace attitudes to women, menopause, parenting, mental health, relationships and coercive control. Whilst each act takes one as a main focus to build the narrative, these themes emerge and re-emerge throughout the performance. Laugh-out-loud funny and bleakly sad in equal measure, it is a stumble through mid-life crisis after crisis. The ‘veiled’ in the title refers to the fact that each woman has hidden issues or is suffering something that they are keeping secret. The veil for each character slips by the end of their piece sometimes with a very dark twist.

In praise of 'Veiled':

"In her exemplary writing debut, Annabel Miller has created something that richly deserved the standing ovation it received at the close."

"Fastidiously observed, Miller makes much of the narrative amusing and relatable... yet doesn’t shy from shifting to some more emotionally hard-hitting moments."

THE LOVELY BONES   

  by Alice Sebold, adapted by Bryony Lavery

Directed by Frances Bodiam 

Production dates:
Tuesday 23rd - 27th April 2024
Main Stage, 7.45pm  Matinee, Saturday 27th April at 3pm

Age suitability 15+

Susie Salmon is 14 years old. She is also dead. She was brutally murdered by a neighbour. When she arrives in her Heaven she can have anything she desires except to be alive again. She is determined with or without the help of her Intake Counsellor Franny, to do anything she can to help her family through their grief and identify her killer. She watches helplessly as her family fall apart and her brother and sister grow up without her. Can she get revenge for her death from her place in heaven?

Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones has been a bestseller throughout the world and the 2009 film, directed by Peter Jackson starring Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon won a number of international awards.

Bryony Lavery is a British playwright whose plays performed at the National Theatre include Frozen (2002), Treasure Island (2014) and at the Bridge Theatre, La Belle Sauvage (2019).

BEGINNING 

by David Eldridge

directed by Ben Clare

Production dates: 
14-18 May 2024, in the Studio

Laura's thrown a housewarming party at her new flat. Danny is the last man standing. It's meant to be isn't it? Or is it? They're both single. They both really like each other. But can they take the leap?

A brilliantly observed, funny, poignant play about being fortyish and single and being open to falling in love again. Award winning writer David Eldridge's play include Under the Blue Sky, In Basildon and Festen. 

"It's the tentative (anti) romance for 21st century London life and it , quite simply, magnificent... never less than utterly refreshing." Evening Standard

Mermaid

The South Circular is South West London’s freshest comedy night!

Sunday 26th May

7.30pm

The South Circular is South West London’s newest comedy night! The best and freshest UK comedians will grace the stage at the historic Putney Arts Theatre.

With acts as seen on Comedy Central, BBC and Dave for just £10, this is a night not to be missed!