Lights Up!

Artistic Directors Barney and Cait sit down to talk about the incredible range of new productions coming up, including Flare Path, Death and the Maiden, Shakespeare in Love, It's A Wonderful Life, Alligator and Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

Tickets for all shows will soon be available on putneyartstheatre.org.uk

Artistic Directors: Barney and Cait Hart Dyke. 
Podcast Editor and sound design: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Recording at the Putney Arts Theatre.

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The Putney Theatre Company at The South West End!
See us online – www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/whatson

Host: Cait Hart-Dyke.
Producer, podcast editor and sound design: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

10 plays in 8 days, The Putney Theatre Box Set Summer Festival brings the energy of the Edinburgh Fringe to your doorstep. Cait interviews Festival Director Ian Higham about everything you'd like to know.

For tickets and full information, take a look at https://www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/event-5741694

Performances: 27 July –  2 August main stage

A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy
Directed by Cait Hart Dyke
Cast: Isabella Walsh-Whitfield

Bobby & Amy by Emily Jenkins
Directed by Geoff Saunders
Cast:  Zach Matcham & Ellen O'Farrell

Borders by Henry Naylor
Directed by Paul Dineen
Cast: Sarah Assaf & Nathan Chatelier

Comment is Free by James Fritz
Directed by Jeff Graves
Cast: Elly Meacham, Ian Felce & Sarah Perkins

Edgar & Annabel by Sam Holcroft
Directed by Graham Kellas
Cast: Hannah McCorry, Govind Hodgson, Carol Hudson, Andy Hall
& Alice Jade

Growth by Luke Norris
Directed by Perry Savill
Cast: Robert Wallis, Will Hunter & Lyndall Brown

How to Date a Feminist by Samantha Ellis
Directed by Frances Bodiam
Cast: Alexa Adam & Owen T Jones

How to Spot an Alien by Georgia Christou
Directed by Lois Savill
Cast: Emily Fellows, Ian Wainwright & David Miller

How We Begin by Elisabeth Lewerenz
Directed by Loetitia Delais
Cast: Alice Wilson & Jessica Allen

Not Talking by Mike Bartlett
Directed by Jim Dixon
Cast: Roger Blitz, Clare Wall David, Harry Pavlou & Sophie Anderson

Artistic Directors: Barney and Cait Hart Dyke. 
Podcast Editor and Sound Designer: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Elements Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

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The Putney Theatre Company at The South West End!
See us online – www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/whatson

Host: Cait Hart-Dyke.
Producer, podcast editor and sound design: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

Recorded in our busy theatre (four directors and their casts in all parts of the building), Cait interviews Angel Witney (Lady Melksham, Past), Emily Dixon(Miss Williams, Past) and Reid Edmond (Amyas Crale) from the stunning new production.

Agatha Christie's Go Back for Murder is a stunning drama from the Queen of Crime. After a wrongly convicted woman dies in prison, it is up to her daughter to recreate the scene of the crime and exonerate her memory. When Carla Crale receives a letter from beyond the grave, she believes her mother was wrongly convicted of her father’s murder. In a passionate attempt to clear her name, she persuades those present on the day of her father’s death to return to the scene of the crime and ‘go back’ 16 years to recount their version of events.

Directed by Zoe Thomas-Webb
Production dates: 18-22 June 2024
(Saturday matinee, 22 June)
Putney Arts Theatre

Cast:
Cara Bullimore: Clara Crale (Present)
Reid Edmond: Amyas Crale
Isla Mackenzie: Caroline Crale
Jack Willard: Justin
Adriana Abara: Angela Warren (Present)
Anna Angela Warren (Past)
Angel Witney: Lady Melksham (Past)
Josie Murphy: Lady Melksham (Present)
Charles Golding: Philip Blake (Present)
Alberto Lais: Philip Blake (Past)
Julia Blyth: Miss Williams (Present)
Emily Dixon: Miss Williams (Past)
Jerome Joseph Kennedy:Meredith Blake (Present)
Oscar Whitaker:Meredith Blake (Past)
Murray Deans:Jeff
Enid Gayle: Turnball
Dotty: Clara Crale (Past)

Crew 
Zoe Webb-Thomas:Director
Edith Webb: Costume Designer 
Katie Bonham:Producer 
Aiste Mizgeryte: Assistant Director 
Kate Halstead:Set Designer 
Rich Evans:Lighting Designer 

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The Putney Theatre Company at The South West End!
See us online – www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/whatson

Host: Cait Hart-Dyke.
Producer, podcast editor and sound design: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

Cast preview  with Debra Bond ( Laura) and Des Healy (Danny). Interviewed by Cait they discuss the themes and drama of David Eldridges powerful play Beginning, directed by Ben Clare.
Laura's thrown a housewarming party at her new flat. Danny is the last man standing. It's meant to be isn't it? Or is it? They're both single. They both really like each other. But can they take the leap?
A brilliantly observed, funny, poignant play about being fortyish and single and being open to falling in love again. Award winning writer David Eldridge's play include Under the Blue Sky, In Basildon and Festen.
"It's the tentative (anti) romance for 21st century London life and it , quite simply, magnificent... never less than utterly refreshing." Evening Standard
A Putney Theatre Company production, 14-18 May 2024, in the Studio.
Some tickets still available here

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The Putney Theatre Company at The South West End!
See us online – www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/whatson

Host: Cait Hart-Dyke.
Producer, podcast editor and sound design: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

The Lovely Bones cast members Isabella (Susie), Ava (Lindsey) and Andrew (Mr Harvey) interviewed by Cait (Grandma Lynn).  Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones has been a bestseller throughout the world and the 2009 film, directed by Peter Jackson starring Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon won a number of international awards.
Now a major new production by the Putney Theatre Company, with a wonderful ensemble cast and crew led by director Frances Bodiam.
Susie Salmon is 14 years old. She is dead. Murdered by a neighbour. When she arrives in her Heaven she can have anything she desires except to be alive again.  But she is determined to help her family through their grief and identify her killer. She watches helplessly as her family falls apart and her brother and sister grow up without her, but can she exact revenge for her death from her place in heaven?
Putney Theatre Company presents The Lovely Bones, 23–27 April 2024, at Putney Arts Theatre. Box Office: putneyartstheatre.org.uk.

Cast and Crew
Susie Salmon - Isabella Walsh-Whitfield
Mr. Harvey - Andrew Curry
Franny - Penny Weatherall 
Abigail Salmon - Cat Roche
Jack Salmon - Tim Iredale
Lindsey Salmon - Ava Moore
Buckley Salmon - Elisa Benham 
Grandma Lynn - Cait Hart Dyke
Ruth Connors - Alice Jade
Ray Singh - Callum Locker
Ruana Singh - Shilpa Varma 
Len Fennerman - Jason Rosenthal
Samuel Heckler - Harry Jefferies 
Principal Caden - Sarah Kitchen
Mrs Flanagan - also Sarah Kitchen

Director – Frances Bodiam
Assistant Director – Theo Leonard
Production Manager – Sarah Jillings
Stage Manager – Helen Woods
Set Design – Simon Crump
Original Music and soundtrack – Nick Wells
Choreography - Penny Weatherall 

Visual assets courtesy of Adobestock and Shutterstock. With excerpts of The Soundtrack, The Lovely Bones (Putney Theatre Production) by Nick Wells/jakejackson451.

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The Putney Theatre Company at The South West End!
See us online – www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/whatson

Host: Cait Hart-Dyke.
Producer, podcast editor and sound design: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

Episode featuring Scandaltown by Mike Bartlett, a new production from the Putney  Theatre Company, directed by Stuart Watson. Cait interviews cast members Lucy Oglesby, Louisa Pead and Sammy Moore.

About the play:
Moral and progressive young heroine Phoebe Virtue disguises herself as an IT consultant and journeys to London to rescue her brother Jack from the temptations of the depraved metropolis, where she suspects he is taking drugs and reading the Daily Telegraph.

Meanwhile, vampy, scheming Lady Susan Climber attempts to ascend the ladder of influence and land a breakfast TV spot by getting cancelled for being outrageous on social media. Their fates collide in a night of mayhem, mistaken identities, and mind-blowing sex at the Netflix masked ball.

Mike Bartlett’s post-pandemic love letter to the reopened theatres is a rollicking modern take on Restoration comedy that holds a satirical mirror up to the fads and fashions of our time, as well as a joyful celebration of London.

Production dates:
Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 March 2024, 7.45pm, main stage
Matinee: Saturday 23 March, 3pm

Cast:
Aunty Julie/Rebecca de Souza: Sarah Perkins
Phoebe Virtue: Lucy Oglesby
Kevin the postman/Sir Dennis Hedge: Roger Beaumont
Jack Virtue: Sammy Moore
Hannah Tweetwell: Katie Kelly
Freddie Peripheral: David Lindley-Pilley
Jenny Hood: Megan Good
Lady Susan Climber: Louisa Pead
Carson/Peter Media OBE: Roger Blitz
Matt Eton MP: Tom Sainsbury
Rosalind Double-Budget: Emily Fellows
Tom Double-Budget: Owen Thomas James

Crew:
Director: Stuart Watson
Assistant director:Megan Good
Movement and choreography: Angela Botha
Set and costume design: Lexa Barbulescu
Production manager: Tom Sainsbury
Composer: Simon Herd
Sound designer: Barney Hart Dyke
Lighting designer: Rich Evans
Stage manager: Helen Wood
Assistant stage managers: Bryony Aird, Anastasia Babich, Emily Kate Dixon, Annie Spencer
Costume assistants: Ally Dixon, Sylvie Hobden, Sorcha Verey
Hair and wigs: Peter Love

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The Putney Theatre Company at The South West End!
See us online – www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/whatson

Host: Cait Hart-Dyke.
Producer, podcast editor and sound design: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

Cait interviews Frances,  Mel and Paul, the cast of Lucy Kirkwood's tense drama, The Children.

Hazel and Robin live in a cottage by the sea because their house has been made uninhabitable by a catastrophic radiation leak at the nearby nuclear power station where they both worked. One day Rose, an old colleague, arrives on a visit. Her visit stirs up memories and reflections on life, love and relationships, but why has she come back after many years away?

The play poses pressing and challenging questions about responsibility but does so through the interactions of the characters in a familiar domestic space where the dialogue can range from deceptively light and funny to harsh and bitter within seconds. 

The Children by Lucy Kirkwood, directed by Carrie Cable
20-24 February in the Studio 
A Putney Theatre Production at Putney Arts Theatre

The Cast
Hazel: Frances Bodiam
Rose: Melanie Wakeley
Robin: Paul White

TIcket link: https://www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/event-5338829

Artistic Directors: Barney and Cait Hart Dyke. 
Podcast Editor and Sound Designer: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Elements Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

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The Putney Theatre Company at The South West End!
See us online – www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/whatson

Host: Cait Hart-Dyke.
Producer, podcast editor and sound design: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Lowe's celebrated musical comes to the South West End!

Director: Tom Sainsbury and Musical Director Richard Campbell lead a fabulous cast and crew, with the classic songs, 'I Could Have Danced All Night', 'Get Me to the Church on Time', 'Wouldn’t It Be Loverly', 'On the Street Where You Live', extravagant dancing and pinpoint performances of Eliza, Professor Higgins, Freddie and Colonel Hugh Pickering.

A brilliant family production for Christmas.

This new podcast episode features Cait interviewing cast members Alys (Eliza), James Pritchard (Higgins) and Jim Dixon (Freddie), chatting through their preprations and inspirations for the production.

CAST and CREW

Eliza – Alys Watson Brown
Higgins  – James Pritchard
Pickering  – Mark Hunter
Doolittle  – Roger Blitz
Freddie  – Jim Dixon
Mrs Higgins / Ensemble  – Alison Roux
Mrs Pearce / Ensemble  – Leanne Gilder
Mrs Einsford Hill / Jamie / Ensemble – Alexa Adam
Harry / Ensemble  –  Florence Henderson
Mrs Hopkins / Ensemble  –  Charlie Hempstead
Lord Boxington / Ensemble  –  Mo Sahir
Karpathy / Barman / Ensemble  –  Ian Wainwright
Ensemble  – Chris Routledge
Ensemble  – Holly Marsden
Ensemble  – Marie Spicq

Production Manager  –  Carrie Cable
Stage Manager – Mike Curley

Performances:
Wednesday 13 – Friday 22 December, 7.30pm, main stage
(no performance on 18 December)
Matinees: Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 December, 3pm

Artistic Directors: Barney and Cait Hart Dyke. 
Podcast Editor and Sound Designer: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Elements Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

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The Putney Theatre Company at The South West End!
See us online – www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/whatson

Host: Cait Hart-Dyke.
Producer, podcast editor and sound design: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

One of the great plays of the 20th century, Amadeus is a riveting, must-see story about the difference between talent and true virtuosity. A sublimely operatic, darkly engrossing take on music, madness and…whisper it... murder.

In this latest episode of Light's Up!  Cait interviews three members of the Amadeus cast: Paul, Nathan and Emily.

Director: Ian Higham

Cast:
Antonio Salieri: Paul Dineen
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Nathan Chatelier
Constanze Weber (later Mozart): Emily McCormick
Joseph II, Emperor of Austria: Govind Hodgson
Count Johan Killian Von Strack: Kim Dyas
Count Franz Orsini-Rosenberg: Jean-Pierre Agius
Baron Gottfried van Swieten: Bill Boyd
Venticello One: Joe Bradley
Venticello Two: Alberto Lais
Ensemble: Ally Dixon, Anastasia Babitch, Caroline D'Arcy, Edward Ogilvie, Emily Dixon, Frances Bodiam, Jodi Rilot, Justin Hopper, Megan Goode and Will Hunter.

Crew:
Stage Manager: Megan Good
Assistant Stage Manager: Jodi Rilot
Production Manager: Caroline D’Arcy
Set Design: Ian Higham with Tony Bennet and Robert Hellstrand
(Construction - Simon Crump, Kim Dyas, Barney Hart Dyke, Simon Rilot & Sasha Adam Grylls)
Lighting Design: Martin Jessop
Costume Design: Simon Crump with Millie Burman
Sound Design: Barney Hart Dyke
Hair and Make Up: Ally Dixon with Peter Love

Performances 14–18 November 2023
Artistic Directors: Barney and Cait Hart Dyke. 
Podcast Editor and Sound Designer: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Elements Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

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The Putney Theatre Company at The South West End!
See us online – www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/whatson

Host: Cait Hart-Dyke.
Producer, podcast editor and sound design: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.

Hear Cait talking to Amanda, Chris and Geoff about the latest awesome production, Apologia by Alexi Kaye Campbell. 

Alexi Kaye Campbell's Apologia is a powerful truthful family drama that delves into how the past can shape the present and examines the sacrifices we are willing to make to fight for what we believe in, no matter how it impacts the ones we love.

Directed by Jim Dixon, with the cast:

Kristen: Amanda Benzecry

Peter: Darren Chancey

Trudi: Eloise McCreedy

Claire: Ellen Woszatka

Hugh: Richard Seedhouse

Simon: Chris Cully

Also, with Geoff Saunders as the official dramaturg for the production.

In the Studio, Tuesday 17 – Saturday 21 October, 7.45pm and a matinee: Saturday 21 October, 3pm. Tickets at  putneyartstheatre.org.co.uk
Artistic Directors: Barney and Cait Hart Dyke. 
Podcast Editor and Sound Designer: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Elements Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre and The Kitchen's rehearsal studio.

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The Putney Theatre Company at The South West End!
See us online – www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/whatson

Host: Cait Hart-Dyke.
Producer, podcast editor and sound design: Nick Wells. 
Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.