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Theatre 503 Autumn Season Announced

Douglas Mayo24th April 20194th June 2015 News, Off West End

Theatre 503 presents Cinderella and the Beanstalk

Theatre 503’s Artistic Director Paul Robinson has just announced its Autumn season for 2015. The company promotes quality new writing which is “game-changing, relevant, surprising, mischievous, visually thrilling and theatrical.” The Autumn Season is as follow:- And Then Come the Nightjars (2nd – 26th September) And Then Come the Nightjars charts one farm’s struggle to survive the march of history. Fierce with rage and achingly tender in turn, the play is a story of enduring friendship and a requiem for rural England. And Then Come the Nightjars marks Theatre503’s first co-production with Bristol Old Vic. Valhalla (30th September – 24th October) Valhalla explores the boundaries of scientific research and tests the endurance of human love. A scientific researcher and his wife on the brink of a transformational discovery escape to an isolated Nordic research facility. Cracks begin to appear in their marriage and they are forced to choose between conflicting … Read more

REVIEW: Wink, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭✭✭

Tim Hochstrasser24th April 201930th March 2015 Off West End, Reviews

An increasingly explicit and intimate dialogue with many moments of ingenious hilarity spirals quickly out of control before colliding with real life in a tense, disturbing and increasingly sombre denouement that leaves everyone damaged to different degrees.

REVIEW: Cinderella And The Beanstalk, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭✭

Stephen Collins24th April 20196th December 2014 Off West End, Reviews

It abounds with heart and wit, is propelled with boundless energy from the three inventive actors who devised the piece, is blessed with a surprising and clever narrative which weaves its way through aspects of pretty much every popular nursery rhyme or fairytale and is genuinely laugh-out loud funny, engaging and joyful.

REVIEW: Cans, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭

Editorial Staff24th April 201918th November 2014 Off West End, Reviews

In five snapshots, we see Jen, as masterfully portrayed by Jennifer Clement, slowly come of age through this discovery and Uncle Len, perfectly embodied by Graham O’Mara, as he fumbles to reboot his own life, now that his protective big brother has killed himself amid sex abuse charges and his estate dries up.

INTERVIEW: Chris Urch, Playwright

Editorial Staff24th April 201918th September 2013 Interviews

Actor Chris Urch has written his first full-length play and there is already talk of him perhaps being the British Tennessee Williams. BT: Chris, you trained as an actor, what spurred you on to play writing?CU: Whilst training at the Drama Centre there was this lesson called Character Analysis where I would have to create a character, write a scenario and act it out on my own in front of my peers. It was quite an exposing lesson, you wrote the scene, acted the scene and directed it yourself but I always enjoyed creating these characters and dialogue. This then spurred me on to start secretly writing plays alongside my training. Talk to us about the process of writing your first play, Land of Our Fathers. I’m from a small mining community and wanted to write about that as it’s personal to me. There was a tragic mining disaster in … Read more