News & Blog
Keep up to date with all our activities by reading our regular blogs written by actor and theatre practitioner Janine Haynes.
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The National’s new online initiative…
11 July 2019
You may have seen a post I put up on Facebook at the end of last week, about The National Theatre’s new initiative, which will give the world online access to its vast archive of theatre productions.
The purpose of the initiative is to reach as many people as possible…
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Introducing - Chloe Todd Fordham. One of five symposium Scratch playwrights
9 July 2019
We are delighted to announce that playwright, Chloe Todd Fordham, will be joining us in September at our symposium ‘Taking the Stage: Women in Performing Arts’.
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‘Splendour’ is coming to Stantonbury!
25 June 2019
We are delighted to tell you that we have been given the go ahead to produce the powerful and edgy all-female play, ‘Splendour’ by BAFTA award-winning writer, Abi Morgan.
Splendour premiered at The Edinburgh Festival in 2000 to great acclaim, receiving its long-awaited debut in London five years later.
Between that…
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Funding received for ‘Taking the Stage – Women in The Performing Arts’
12 June 2019
Funding received for ‘Taking the Stage – Women in The Performing Arts’
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Social media - friend or foe?
22 May 2019
I think most of us put our hands up there; and I bet a large percentage have more than one account. I know I do...
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Is taking the arts away from schools the right thing?
14 May 2019
Over the last year there has been a great deal of dialogue around the removal of the arts from school curriculums.
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Students break down stigma of mental health in musical
25 April 2019
Mental Health is a huge topic that affects people of all ages from all walks of life, but it remains a taboo subject. So, are we talking about it enough?
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New tour dates for “Funny Faces”
24 April 2019
New tour dates announced for “Funny Faces”
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Masks, masks and more masks!
18 April 2019
Well, we had a wonderful second workshop with Vamos Theatre Company...
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Workshops from Vamos Theatre Company
12 April 2019
Two wonderful workshops this year (2019) from Vamos Theatre Company who we first worked with on “ Shoulder To Shoulder”. Vamos is the UK’s leading mask theatre company so we are so thrilled to be working with them again.