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Two Faces of Fagin
ELIZABETH ALLEN Most of the audience for Steve Furst’s show at the Stables admitted that they had never read Dickens’ Oliver Twist, but they did know Fagin, one of those…
A Song as Lovely as a Tree
Bev Lee Harling is a disarmingly innocent-looking singer, songwriter, musician and actor with a lightness and naturalness to her performances which belie the care, originality, and thought with which they…
McNiff Sings Cohen
Talented local singer/songwriter Jason McNiff is launching a new theatre show at the Stables on 7 May, which is lined up afterwards for dates around the country. Songs of Love…
What’s The Story?
The Stables theatre is hosting an intriguing photography exhibition throughout February. Gary Willis brings us a series of images which hope to provoke a reaction; a sense of – what…
The Ellen Terry Theatre Haunts The Stables
ELIZABETH ALLEN Following their recent witty and joyful production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Ellen Terry Barn Theatre company returns to the Stables with an altogether darker prospect. This…
The Healing Properties of the Sea
Patrick Kealey is here in conversation with Bev Lee Harling about the latest staging of her one-woman show, Ploughing the Salt Sea, at The Stables. Peter Mould Why should people…
The Knowing Charm of the Eternally Ambiguous
ELIZABETH ALLEN “Ambiguity is essential to The Turn of the Screw: that’s why people find it attractive.” So says Tim Blackwell, writer and director of the latest adaptation of Henry…
Nominate a Female Hero
The first of The Stables’ Scene & Heard festivals brings together a programme of work centred around stories driven by ;The festival runs from 5-21 June 2025, offering three weeks…
The Stables: Saluting the volunteers
STUART BAILLIE’S monthly theatre news Next up at The Stables is Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. It was his last play and takes place on a Russian estate at the turn…
The Politics of KABARETT
VICTORIA KINGHAM takes in Kabarett, a one-night-only presentation at The Stables The word cabaret (meaning ‘small room’) has been used since the thirteenth century. It has eventually come to describe…
Painting Hastings in Oils
VICTORIA KINGHAM on Bill Greenhead’s new paintings at The Stables The genial Bill Greenhead is one of those comparatively rare and happy people whose talent is also their livelihood. He…
Keep Your Tenant in Mind
MERLIN BETTS on a new production at The Stables Imagine for a moment. Your art, your creativity, flushed down the drain. All your hopes of appreciation and success lost in…
Ploughing the Salt Sea
PATRICK KEALEY on Bev Lee Harling’s powerful performance at The Stables Peter Mould “It takes a whole community to make a show”, says performer Bev Lee Harling to the audience,…
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…
Music is My First Love
A young performer recounts the extraordinary journey she’s taken to get on stage at the Stables. My name is Alaska Hilton, I am 20 years old and was born and…
Moving Pictures
Anything Cannes can do… Since its inception four years ago, The South Coast Film Festival has gone from strength to strength. Indeed, this year showings have moved out of the…
Controlling Your Piano
HIP’s reviewer Victoria Kingham is knocked out by a recent recital from daring debutant Daisuke Yoshidaat The Stables. On a seemingly ordinary Sunday afternoon approximately 60 people assembled, almost en…
Arts Diary
Jazzing Up the Stade On Tuesday 5 July, award-winning saxophonist, Gilad Atzmon, will be headlining at the Jazz Hastings July monthly session at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association on…
Weather War
Hattie Ellis reviews a recent show at the Stables It’s May 1944, three weeks before D-Day, and pressure is ratcheting up. Will the Allied forces be able to invade Europe…
Shadowlands
William Nicholson (Director: Jenny Lloyd-Lyons) The Stables, Hastings Clive Staples Lewis, perhaps best known as C S Lewis the author of the successful Narnia series of children’s books, was also…
PREVIEW: Royal Audience in the Stables
Merlin Betts previews The Audience, showing at the Stables Theatre from 8th-16th March Did you know that most weeks the Queen has a private meeting with the current Prime Minister,…
A Doll’s House
Written by Henrik Ibsen Performed at The Stables, Hastings. 9-17 March. Director: Sandra Tomlinson Review by Hugh Bryant What with the price of houses on the south coast, A Doll’s…