Stables Doors Open for Hot Tap
VICTORIA KINGHAM
Dean Stalham’s Hot Tap Theatre year at St Andrews Mews is now complete, and, having had a number of great theatre nights, he is moving on to a new project in association with The Stables Theatre.
His playwriting workshops, often a one-stop shop for writers who feel excluded, disenfranchised, or under-represented, have materialised into 16 short plays. And in association with The Stables Theatre, the Old Red Lion and the Hen and Chickens theatres in Islington, original plays will be showcased at The Stables before performing two shows in London. All the writers are from Hastings.
Plays will be performed in The Stables’ new 50-capacity studio space on the first floor of the theatre, which has professional lighting and sound. On four dates, every three months over the next year, a different play can be staged for two nights. Two weeks later, it will show for two nights at the Red Lion and two nights at the Hen and Chickens. “It’s all pretty high quality writing,” comments Dean.
Neil Sellman, Chair of The Stables Management group, has a pool of eight actors to pick from to play the various parts. The project will open with one of Dean’s plays in July.
In October, another play stars Sydney Kean. And then the third production is a play called The Monologues of Men, one that has already been performed in London. The fourth date is open for a brand new play from a new writer – an open call to all local playwrights.
Stalham is grateful to Sellman. “He’s really opened his doors to us.”
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