Tag archives for The Stables Theatre
General Medical Emergency Ward 10
Dyad Productions, known mainly for historical plays (That Knave, Raleigh, I, Elizabeth, A Room of One’s Own) have staged a brand new theatre collaboration with Company Gavin Robertson (General Medical…
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…
Horror Comes Home, in an East Sussex Production
LEON CUTHBERTSON Prepare for a nerve-shattering theatrical experience at The Stables Theatre (Hastings) this month, as they present Henry James’ classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. It’s a…
Female Heroes Launch Scene & Heard Festival
JANE MIDWINTER Thursday 5 June marked the inspiring launch of the Scene & Heard Festival at The Stables Theatre, and the official opening of the Female Heroes exhibition – a…
Life, Rhymes, and a Lot of Hats
EBM HUMPHREYS Billed as ‘like Kafka, but funnier’, I had high hopes for The Life and Rhymes of Archy and Mehitabel, after days of abysmal technology failures and endless loops…
Miss Julie then and Now
PATRICK KEALEY As a seasoned actor and director, I often reflect on why I’ve chosen the projects I have. I often think that the plays one arrives at for unconscious…
Chekhov, Chairs, Complexity
ELIZABETH ALLEN on the multi-faceted Cherry Orchard Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard is a slippery play, mood and perhaps genre shifting within the same scene: farce and frivolity jostle with pain…
McNiff: Everything’s a Song
Local singer/ songwriter Jason McNiff launches his 9th album, Everything’s a Song, at The Stables Theatre in Hastings on 2 June. He will be joined by talented musicians and writers…
Ploughing the Salt Sea – a Must-See!
CAF FEAN Ploughing the Salt Sea is a unique home-grown solo show, crafted by singer-songwriter and composer Bev Lee ; Hastings born-and-bred, Bev never knew her maternal grandparents: her mother,…
An Unassuming Prodigy
Again, musical excellence takes varied, and often unexpected, forms, genres, and performance levels, and Hastings seems to have more than its share. We go on here to hail yet another…
Shakespeare-on-Sea
In an interview with HIP, John Knowles, Hastings’ actor, director, producer and founder of Fetch Theatre, argues that radical action is urgently needed to revive the idea of theatre in…
Programming Juggling Act
Neil Sellman, chair of the Stables, outlines his vision for Hastings’ only independent theatre, and the dilemmas of mixing in-house amateur productions with those offered from touring or outside companies.…
Carmen Unpacked
By Nick Pelling I need to start with a confession: I find opera a bit depressing. The beautiful women always seem to die in the final act. Usually by melodramatically…
ARTS DIARY
Beginning Again The Wealden Consort choral singers are preparing for an ‘uplifting’ choral and classical music concert in Christ Church, Silchester Road, St Leonards on Saturday 30th October. The concert,…
ARTS DIARY
Black Magik Black Magik Fest is a new arts festival in St Leonards celebrating what it means to be Black and British. It’s devised and curated by resident Jack Kennedy…
Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen (Dir: Carol Hunt) Adapted by Simon Reade The Stables Theatre, 1-9 June 2018 Review by Hugh Bryant I was there on the first night of this classic in…