About Woodhouse Players
The Woodhouse Players - East London's friendliest drama society. We put on new writing, classics, contemporary drama, comedy and pantomime. We're very informal and always welcome new members.
Woodhouse Players Description
We're a friendly amateur dramatics / theatre group based in Leytonstone, East London. We put on at last six productions a year of plays rangng from new writing, classics, contemporary drama, comedy and pantomime, as well as holding occasional acting and technical workshops.
We're very informal and always welcome new members for acting, directing, writing and production roles.
Ticket prices for shows currently £8 (£5 concessions) if booked or reserved in advance, £9 /£6 at the door.
Membership (compulsory if participating in performances) is £25 a year (£15 concessions)
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Hot press.... The signed performance of Puss in Boots will be at 19:30 on Saturday 12th January.
Book early! Last year 5 of the 6 panto performances were to sell out audiences!!
http://woodhouseplayers.co.uk/productions _201901puss.html
Open auditions for "Bull" by Mike Bartlett
Part of our March Double Bill (with "One Day When We Were Young" by Nick Payne). Performance dates 8/9 & 15/16 March 2019
Auditions on 23 November are for both plays. Auditions on 28 November are for "Bull" only
... Full information, including character notes and audition pieces, on the website: http://www.woodhouseplayers.co.uk/product ions_201903bull.ht…
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Open auditions for "One Day When We Were Young" by Nick Payne.
Part of our March Double Bill (with "Bull" by Mike Bartlett). Performance dates 8/9 & 15/16 March 2019
Auditions on 20 November are for "One Day When We Were Young" only. Auditions on 23 November are for both plays.
... Full information, including character notes and audition pieces, on the website: http://www.woodhouseplayers.co.uk/product ions_201903oneday.…
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Open auditions for our March Double Bill will take place at the Welsh Church Hall at 7.30pm on Tuesday 20th November (for "One Day When We Were Young"), Friday 23rd November (for both plays) and Wednesday 28th November (for "Bull"). Full details, character notes and audition pieces on the website http://www.woodhouseplayers.co.uk/product ions_201903double.…
All welcome.... free event....
All welcome. (We have copies of the play but do bring your own if you have one.)
Meet Jade Park. (Sorry, sorry, sorry Jade, please don't hurt us. We promise we'll come to your next dance school audition.)
Jade does love her family but having to watch her mum's favourite film might put a bit too much strain on her relationships with dad Terry and brother Noah.
The cast of The Jurassic Parks written by Superbolt Theatre can't contain their excitement about this weekend's performances. Online booking for tonight's show has closed but tickets are available at the door. Don't miss this brilliantly imaginative and funny show! http://www.woodhouseplayers.co.uk/product ions_201810jurassi…
We've been getting spookily good feedback on the opening performances of The Jurassic Parks written by Superbolt Theatre! Don't miss your chance to see it this weekend, Fri/Sat 2/3 November. Saturday matinee is #BSL signed. The evening shows finish well before 10pm, so there's plenty of time to come along and do all your weekend partying too!
Full information, including how to book, on the website http://www.woodhouseplayers.co.uk/product ions_201810jurassi…
Today is the opening night of our funny and moving show The Jurassic Parks written by Superbolt Theatre - here are some shots from the Dress Rehearsal to whet your appetite. At the Welsh Church Hall 881 High Road Leytonstone E11 1HR (opposite O'Neills). Tonight at 8pm, tomorrow (Saturday) at 2.30pm & 8pm. Same drill next week on Friday/Saturday 2/3 November. 2.30 show on Saturday 3rd is #BSL signed Full details, including how to book at http://www.woodhouseplayers.co.uk/product ions_201810jurassi… (online booking for tonight's show has now closed but tickets are available at the door!)
Don't be like Terry Park and wait on the phone for your ticket to The Jurassic Parks. Simply visit http://www.woodhouseplayers.co.uk/ and you can book online directly on our homepage! We open tomorrow night.
Photo by Derrick Wess.
Meet Noah Park. He loves his family and his dinosaurs. With his mum's memorial coming up he thought it would be a good idea to watch their favourite film.
Is that the sound of a Triceratops? (Noah's favourite)
Time to meet the family!! Terry Park is a cautious man and just wants what's best for his 2 children, Jade & Noah, after the death of his wife Madeleine. They come together to watch their favourite film in memory of her & with it comes a trip down memory lane. Come join the Park family as they take you on their journey filled with family squabbles & stomping dinosaurs. Maybe you'll see a T-Rex.
What's hiding in the undergrowth at the Welsh Church Hall? Come to see The Jurassic Parks written by Superbolt Theatre and find out! Performances 26/27 Oct & 2/3 Nov (Matinee on Sat 3 Nov is #BSL signed.) Full details, including how to book at http://www.woodhouseplayers.co.uk/product ions_201810jurassi…
*Disclaimer: the cute dog is pure clickbait (though she did help a lot with building the set). There are no actual live animals in this show. But there are three actors with boundless energy and wonderful characterisation; there is singing, dancing, a ukulele, a glockenspiel and a rap that includes the word “cretaceous.” And there is a beautiful family story that will make you laugh and cry when you least expect it. And of course Jurassic Park nostalgia. All the Jurassic Park nostalgia. . .
Flyering dino-style for The Jurassic Parks written by Superbolt Theatre at the weekend. Did you spot a T-Rex in Wanstead? See what it's all about at http://www.woodhouseplayers.co.uk/product ions_201810jurassi… and book your tickets now!
A Playreading Night open to all members and non-members. Free event. A chance to practice your sight-reading skills, get to know a new play and meet people (and possibly continue the discussion afterwards in the pub!). This evening we will be reading
An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley.
An Inspector Calls was written by J. B. Priestley and first performed in 1945. It is one of his best known works for the stage, and is considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century ...English theatre. The play's success and reputation has been boosted in recent years by a successful revival by director Stephen Daldry for the National Theatre with a national tour and a BBC production in 2015.
The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in April 1912, focusing on the prosperous upper middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in the fictional town of Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands". The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman, Eva Smith (also known as Daisy Renton). Long considered part of the repertory of classic "drawing room" theatre, the play has also been hailed as a scathing criticism of the hypocrisies of Victorian and Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley's socialist political principles. The play is well known to many teachers, teenagers and their parents as a GCSE text!
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The plays for our March Double Bill have been chosen! They are:
Bull, by Mike Bartlett, directed by Helena Braithwaite; and One Day When We Were Young, by Nick Payne, directed by Thom Faulkner.
... Well done to both our directors!
Performance dates are 8/9 and 15/16 March 2019. Watch this space for information about auditions.
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Very enjoyable panto� well done everyone! Lots of cleverliness going on xx
This was one of the most entertaining pantomimes I have attended. The entertainment was at a continuous level and did not dip but remained on a high. A wonderful family evening with children and adults thoroughly enjoying themselves all the way through.
Saw "Jack and the Beanstalk", but the one where it all goes wrong, with my daughter.
We both absolutely loved it and laughed loads.
Excellent performances from everyone. I had a huge grin all the way through! Good luck for the rest of the run.
Did we enjoy Jack and the beanstalk? Oh yes we did.