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Did you enjoy this year's Chiswick Book Festival sessions with the writers of ITV's Victoria and the films The Girl on the Train and Before I Go To Sleep? If so, we thought you might also be interested in the Love Theatre event taking place at St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall this Friday, with playwright Jonathan Maitland and three theatre producers. Book here or read more.....
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Last year at St Michael’s, in ‘How to Make A Drama out of a Dead Sheep’, Jonathan Maitland and Denise Silvey, of Cahoots Theatre Company, discussed how they brought the story of Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe to the stage.
‘Dead Sheep’ is now on a nationwide tour; their second play, ‘An Audience with Jimmy Savile’, was a 4-star sell-out hit in London and Edinburgh; and the third – ‘Deny Deny Deny’, about drugs in sport – has just opened at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park. Denise is also the Production Supervisor of The Mousetrap, the world's longest running stage show, now in its 64th year.
On Friday November 25th, they return to St Michael & All Angels to discuss their new play and what they’ve learned, as part of a wider discussion on the state of theatre today with two other Chiswick residents who are making things happen in the theatre:
– Fred Perry, co-artistic director of the Tabard Theatre;
– and Bob Benton, of Bob & Co and the Cultural Capital Fund.
Bob Benton founded the Bob and Co family of businesses (TV, film and theatre) in 2011 after a career in Investment Banking. In 2014 he launched the Cultural Capital Fund, a unique private equity vehicle open to individuals. The fund currently has assets invested in shows such as Wicked, Beautiful: The Carole King Story, The Kenneth Branagh Season, The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, Red Shoes (Sir Matthew Bourne) and the upcoming Dreamgirls. Separately, Bob and Co are involved as producers, investors and commissioners of new plays under the Ghostlight name.
Chaired by Torin Douglas, former BBC media correspondent.
6.30 for 7pm, Friday November 25th 2016 in St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall. Tickets £5. Bar from 6.30 in aid of St Michael’s Christmas Charity Appeal, for:
- The Upper Room, helping the needy in west London;
- The Mulberry Centre, helping those affected by cancer;
- Msaada, helping people in Rwanda make a new life.
Book here or buy tickets at the door.
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