About St Bart'S Theatre
A new theatre venue in east Reading offering a large and flexible space for many kinds of performance, installations or concerts
St Bart'S Theatre Description
St Bart’s Theatre is a new venture making use of a large flexible space with plenty of character and history. We are already working in collaboration with Stage-Fright theatre community, Reading Between the Lines, Reading Hexagon and the Church of England.
We are starting to build a programme of professional touring companies as well as producing new shows with two resident companies. We will also be offering activities and events for the local community. We look forward to developing new opportunities with a range of artists, both locally and further afield. St Bart’s Theatre is a new venture making use of a large flexible space with plenty of character and history. We are already working in collaboration with Stage-Fright theatre community, Reading Between the Lines, Reading Hexagon and the Church of England.
We are starting to build a programme of professional touring companies as well as producing new shows with two resident companies. We will also be offering activities and events for the local community. We look forward to developing new opportunities with a range of artists, both locally and further afield.
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St Bart's is chuffed to be one of Alt Reading's Best of Reading 2015
A big thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday night for JUMP. Here's a link to the photographs taken on the night by MACH photography. Check them out! http://www.machphotography.com/sbt1215
JUNCTION presents JUMP
featuring 11 new pieces from 11 talented acts
... An exciting new scratch night for dance lovers in Reading. Join us for our first JUMP featuring a fantastic line-up of dance shorts from professional, semi-professional and youth dancers creating innovative new work. JUMP will be followed by a freestyle dance JAM where you can join us on the floor. Raise the bar at JUMP.
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at St. Bart's Theatre, Reading! We've got a whole host of festive treats heading our way over the next few weeks from dance nights to poetry, from family shows to sing along carols. All the details visit our website, or take a look at our 'Events' tab.
www.stbartstheatre.org
Ideal for all the family
Things are not going well for world famous storyteller Ebenezeer Sneezer.
He’s lost. There is snow in his wellies and his wise and faithful dog, Cracker, has some strange ideas about Christmas.
... Caught taking shelter in Mrs McGinty’s barn, she allows them to stay on condition that Ebeneezer warm-up her Christmas with some of his seasonal stories. If they bring her enough glad tidings there’s a hot supper on the cards. If not they will be thrown back out into the storm.
With Mrs McGinty’s frozen heart in need of a magnificent miracle and Deadly the dastardly donkey ready to kick comfort and joy out of his stable, will Ebeneezer triumph? Despite turbulent turkeys and hysterical hay fights, he has a plan and some tremendous tales to turn things around.
So pull open this delightful cracker packed with comedy, puppetry, and seasonal storytelling, as Riding Lights offers the whole family a magical glimpse into the heart of Christmas.
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Mesmerising words and atmospheric music combine in this collaboration between poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and musician John Sampson.
Carol Ann Duffy The first female, Scottish Poet Laureate in the role's 400 year history, Carol Ann Duffy's combination of tenderness and toughness, humour and lyricism, unconventional attitudes and conventional forms, has won her a very wide audience of readers and listeners.
... John Sampson John is an Edinburgh-based professional musician, composer and actor. A well known and loved performer on the UK music scene for nearly forty years and a respected actor for almost as long, he has also appeared extensively on the continent.
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An enchanting masked Christmas story, Silver Moon tells the story of two very different children.
Helda is cold and alone, but her imagination is filled with her grandfathers’s folk tales. Jurgen is surrounded by beautifully wrapped presents but needs a friend to help make his everyday magical.
Age guidance 4+.
This Saturday 21 November: TAKE TWO Witness a passionate theatrical perspective on Palestine Political Drama | Saturday 21st November | 7:30PM http://www.stbartstheatre.org/take-two.ht ml
~ THIS SATURDAY ~ An incredible adaptation of a Chinese classic comes to St. Bart's this weekend before transferring to London's West End next year. Diao Chan: Rise of the Courtesan by Red Dragonfly Theatre Productions Saturday 14th November | 19:30 | Full: £12 | Con: £10
"A rib-tickling new show for adults and families" by Fol Espoir
It’s 1942 and a horde of Yankee servicemen have just arrived in England - where the locals speak a strange dialect, boil all their food, and talk endlessly about the weather. The Americans see the Brits as a strange race. Get ready to judge for yourself in a night of joyous laughter and downright silliness as a crack team of experts attempt to explain the rules of British life.
"Induces a helpless laughter that a...lmost incapacitates the audience... an unforgettable experience." **** The Stage
"Ridiculous witticisms, idiotic imaginations and a wonderful on-stage dynamic... this show is definitely one to see." - A Younger Theatre
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THIS FRIDAY - 6 November: 'Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain' 8pm "A rib-tickling new show for adults and families"
... It’s 1942 and a horde of Yankee servicemen have just arrived in England - where the locals speak a strange dialect, boil all their food, and talk endlessly about the weather. The Americans see the Brits as a strange race. Get ready to judge for yourself in a night of joyous laughter and downright silliness as a crack team of experts attempt to explain the rules of British life.
Tickets available here http://www.stbartstheatre.org/instruction s-for-american-ser…
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