Coffee & Catch Up
Monday 3 Mar 2025
On the first Thursday morning (11:30am-1pm) of every month, the Cheltenham Playhouse opens its doors to the community for a Coffee & Catch Up! Join us for some refreshments, chatter, and an opportunity to meet new people wiht the backdrop of our gorgeous historic building.
Our next Coffee & Catch Up is Thursday 3rd April.
Playhouse Company: The Welkin - Play Reading
Wednesday 26 Feb 2025
Play Reading: Monday 31st March 2025, 7:30pm
Green Room Bar, Cheltenham Playhouse
Come along to our Play Reading of The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood.
Play Readings are a great low-pressure way to introduce and familiarise yourself with a play, its themes and characters:
Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she is telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose.
With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the murderess in their midst.
'The Welkin', by Lucy Kirkwood, premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2020. Kirkwood play 'The Children' opened in the West End and transferred to Broadway in 2017, was the winner of the Writers’ Guild Best Play award, and was nominated for a Tony Award.
The Playhouse Company is an amateur company based at the Cheltenham Playhouse.
Further details from: playhousedramaco@gmail.com
Follow: @Playhouse Company on Facebook
Playhouse Company: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Wednesday 26 Feb 2025
Play Reading: Monday 28th April 2025, 7:30pm
Green Room Bar, Cheltenham Playhouse
Auditions (on arrival come to the Green Room Bar):
- Wed 7th May 2025 - Pittville Room, 7pm-9:30pm
- Thu 8th May 2025 - Pittville Room, 7:30pm-10pm
- Sun 11th May 2025 - Montpellier Room, 2:30pm-5pm
Rehearsals will start at the beginning of June 2025
Performance Dates at Cheltenham Playhouse Main Stage:
Wednesday 1st to Saturday 4th October 2025, 7:30pm, + Matinée on Sat 4th October, 2pm
Roles (mainly Edinburgh/light Scottish)
The Teachers:
Miss Jean Brodie (late 30s/40s)
Miss Mackay, the Head Mistress (40s/50s/60s)
Mr Teddy Lloyd, the Art Teacher (late 30s/40s) - could have an English accent
Mr Gordon Lowther, the Music Teacher (late 30s/40s/50s)
The Schoolgirls:
The Brodie Set: Sandy, Mary, Monica, Jenny (late teens/early 20s) - Sandy could have an English accent
Clara and 3 other Schoolgirls (late teens/early 20s)
Ages are for guidance only - don't worry if you are older/younger
Miss Brodie is a formidable figure who moulds young minds to her form. And what is more, she is so intensely interesting, that the girls admire her above all else. But Miss Brodie is not honest. She prevaricates, and then tells the girls to do as she tells them, not as she does herself. She is having an affair with the Music Teacher, and has had one with the Art Teacher.
Jean Brodie has her favourite - her 'Brodie Set' - the beautiful Jenny, the timid Mary, the dramatic Monica, and the sharp-witted and ever-watchful Sandy. At the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in the conservative and respectable Edinburgh of the 1930s, we follow the girls' journey under the influence of the charismatic Miss Brodie, from their adoration to their disillusionment.
Carol Meredith
DIRECTOR
The Playhouse Company is an amateur company based at the Cheltenham Playhouse.
Further details from: playhousedramaco@gmail.com
Follow: @Playhouse Company on Facebook
