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February 2012
 Gareth Pilkingon |
Gareth Pilkington plays Hermann Kafka in Kafka v Kafka by Howard Colyer at the Brockley Jack Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, Brockley, London SE4 2DH. Dates: until 4 February at 7.45pm Kafka v Kafka is about the struggle to communicate and its seeming impossibility. It's about an ex-soldier and shopkeeper, and a lawyer and writer of genius. It's about first and second generation migrants to a world city. It's about the wall between a father and a son. |
 Edmund Dehn |
Edmund Dehn is appearing in Sleeping Dogs by Brenda Gottsche, (a former AWL member), at Barons Court Theatre, 28A Comeragh Road, London W14 9HR. Dates: 31 January-18 February at 7.30pm Tickets: £12/£10 (conc) Think you've got the perfect life? Roz and Leo are happy. Their careers are flourishing: she is fast becoming Britain’s first celebrity psychotherapist with her radio show and his bestselling novel is flying off the shelves. Their son Alex seems to be doing OK too, with his new found religion (not that they really approve). Everything could change though, with the arrival of Leo’s old friend from Australia who won’t let sleeping dogs lie. Box Office 020 8932 4747 or email, |
 Martin Wimbush |
Martin Wimbush returns to the Finborough Theatre in Outward Bound, a 1920's play written by Sutton Vane. Dates: 31 January-25 February at 7.30pm, matinees at 3.00pm Tickets: £13-15/£9-11 (conc) Seven passengers meet in the saloon bar of a ship as it sets sail from an unidentified English port. The travellers have more in common than they dare to suspect. Out at sea, an eerie calm settles over the ship as Tom is the first to discover the fate which awaits his fellow passengers… Box Office 0844 847 1652 or book online |
 Harry Saks |
Harry Saks will be playing The Inspector in the premiere of A Russian Play by John Thompson at The Lion & Unicorn, 42-44 Gaisford Street, London NW5 2ED. Nearest Tube: Kentish Town. Dates: 14 February-4 March at 7.30pm, Tues-Sat, Sunday matinee at 3.30pm. Tickets: £15/£12/£10 A black comedy described as "Withnail and I meets Crime and Punishment". Box Office 0844 477 1000 or Book online |
 Colin Pinney |
Colin Pinney will be presenting his one man show, The Path to Milk Wood at Epsom Playhouse Myers Studio, Ashley Avenue, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5AL. Date: 22 February at 2.30pm Tickets: £5 This presentation gives a picture of the author’s erratic career and his final struggle to complete his eternally infernally unfinished play. Box Office 01372 742555 or Book online |
 Jodie Raven |
Jodie Raven will play Portia in Julius Caeser at the Brockley Jack Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, Brockley, London SE4 2DH. Dates: 27 February-10 March at 7.45pm Tickets: £12/£10 (conc) suitable for over 14s Book online |
 Gregory Cox |
Gregory Cox will be filming the new Mike Figgis erotic psychological thriller, Suspension of Disbelief, during February for release later in 2012. |
 Teresa Jennings |
Teresa Jennings is on a four month Fred Olsen world cruise, working with Valerie Leon, teaching its passengers the Performing Arts on the ship Blackwatch. Dates: until 26 April Click here to find out where Teresa's ship (BW) is currently located |
 Brian O'Connell |
Brian O'Connell (alias Bonaventure Hope) has just released a CD of some pretty dire songs that he has written over the years. Apparently one or two tracks are almost bearable, click here to listen. If any AWL member would like their own free copy all you have to do is to email him and pledge £6 to a charity of your choice, and next time you see him he will try to have one available. |
Ahead
 Julian Bird |
Julian Bird will be playing Lear in King Lear at the the Rose Theatre Bankside, 2 Rose Alley, City of London SE1 9AS. Dates: 1-31 March at 7.30pm Tickets: £12/£10 (conc) Box Office 020 7261 9565 or Email |
 Carolyn Pertwee |
Carolyn Pertwee who has written the book for A Bowl of Cherries, a musical review, starring Gary Wilmot and Clare Buckfield and directed by Andrew Wadsworth, will be performed at the Charing Cross Theatre, The Arches, Villiers Street, London WC2N 6NL. Dates: 6-31 March at 7.30pm, Saturday matinee at 4.00pm Tickets: £29.50/£24.50 A Bowl of Cherries is a musical revue that looks at life through a cycle of plays and songs. This is observed by two theatre ghosts from the last war; Penny Riddle and Albert Farthing, who are trapped between this world and the next. Box office 020 7907 7075 |
 John Caine |
John Caine's play Reunion will be performed at the Jermyn Street Theatre, which will then go on tour. Dates: 23 April More details to come |
 Christopher Owen |
Christopher Owen's play
Beware! Danger Zone! which
had a rehearsed reading at AWL earlier
this year is to be produced by RAF Cranwell Amateur Theatrical Association
and performed at the 2012 Royal Air Force Association Festival of One
Act Plays in May 2012. |
Opportunities/Services
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Casting Call Pro |
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Actors Richmond Centre |
The Actors Richmond Centre was founded in the 1980s by Sam Walters, Director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, Surrey. He felt that there was a need locally for a centre that could run workshops for professional actors. They have been running now for over 20 years and Sam Walters is their patron. ARC operate a non-profit making programme of singing classes and acting workshops over three terms each year. |
Masterclass |
Masterclass aims to offer young people between 17-30, exceptional creative opportunities and experiences with leaders of the theatre industry. A year-round programme of talks, workshops, special projects and career advice is intended to give people insight into all aspects of theatre from writing and directing to acting and producing. Masterclass strives to provide all the events for free, so that people of all abilities, status and background can be inspired by and learn from masters of the craft. |