Godot – Still Waiting
Beckett’s enigmatic characters, Vladimir and Estragon, have been waiting for almost 70 years for their titular protagonist to appear. To celebrate a landmark Hastings production of the play we offer a trio of reviews and some background. CREDIT: Peter Mould…
A Gentle Play about Murder
The 20th Century seems to feature prominently in the Stables spring programme with two new plays and a revival all set in the last century. The Seventh Swimmer and Here at Last is Love both have gay themes while Dial…
Stables Theatre Rides the Storm
By contrast with the travails of the Electric Palace cinema, the Stables Theatre in The Bourne – less than 400 yards up the road – seems to be surviving the pandemic with an eclectic programme of plays, musical performances and…
Beastly Dark Heart
Kent Barker reviews the latest work from Hastings playwright and director John Knowles. I’ll tell you something for nothing: the three people I would least like to be stuck in a small boat with, were all assembled on the stage…
Bunker Girls at the Stables
The Stables Theatre recently staged Bunker Girls – set in Berlin in 1945. Francis Saunders watched the opening and closing performances on Wednesday 19th and Saturday 22nd ; This was the first time I’d visited the theatre since the pandemic…
Culture Recovery Fund Round 2
Music, arts and theatre venues across the country are due to hear by the end of this month whether they will receive grants under Round 2 of the Arts Council England (ACE) Culture Recovery Fund. The stated aim is to…
Every Woman Every Man, Join the Caravan
Of love. Oh those old-fashioned rhyme schemes bumbling along there. So disarming. Local company Theatre Nation's excellent play Caravan of Love is soon to return from this year's socially distanced and Covid-safe Brighton Fringe and do a two-day run in…
Stables doors open
A cash injection of £71k from the Government’s Cultural Recovery Fund is cause for celebration at Stables Theatre Hastings. The news comes as the volunteer-run venue prepares to open its doors to the public with a calendar of events throughout…
Paying The Piper
Arts Council England (ACE) has announced funding awards totalling £257 million for 1,385 venues, theatres, museums and cultural organisations across the ; The awards are administered by ACE on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as Round…
Alchemy Extraordinary
Caf Fean shares her experience of spending a week with local artists, actors and writers, exploring and pushing the boundaries of their creativity, under the guidance of David Glass and the wonderful team at Theatre Nation. It is a long…