After finishing university I moved home to South East London and got a place on the StoneCrabs Young Directors Program in 2011, something that I am incredibly grateful for. I then went on to successfully gain support from the John Fernald Award...
Read morePlayground2 – Young Director
Thursday 20th March – Friday 21st March A double bill of electrifying theatre selected from the StoneCrabs Young Director’s Festival. LUNA PARK by Donald Margulies directed by HATTIE COUPE A young man has a dream that he is in an...
Read moreSCYD 2013-2014 (Playground and Playground 2)
Our 2013 Young Directors are Camilla Gurtler; Jude Evans; Katharina Reinthaller; Eleanor Chadwick, Mariana Pereira, Lynette Linton, Emma Dennis-Edwards, Anthony Nyagah and Hattie Coupe, together they produced Play-ground, a festival of scratch...
Read moreThe Normal versus The Natural
I’ve just come back from training with LISPA as part of the London International Mime Festival on the ‘Poetic Body’ and ‘Devising Theatre’. Amongst many inspiring moments, one statement stuck with me: “The Normal versus the Natural”. What’s the...
Read moreDirectors and the Transformation of the Acting Space
In looking forward to our coming Play.Ground Festival at the Albany in February, at a recent rehearsal, StoneCrabs’ 9 young directors talked about how directors use space. In a series of lectures entitled “The Empty Space: The Theatre Today”, the...
Read moreStoneCrabs Young Directors Festival
ACTORS NEEDED FOR STONECRABS YOUNG DIRECTORS FESTIVAL – PAID StoneCrabs Theatre is looking for actors for Play-ground Scratch Festival. The scratch plays will be performed at the Albany Studio Theatre in Deptford over three evenings...
Read moreYoung Directors – What does it mean to be a director?
A director is like an architect… It is hard to begin to explain the kind of impact that StoneCrabs Young Directors Programme is having on all of us. After each session, we feel a mixture of exhaustion and bliss. The work itself develops at such a...
Read moreCreating Theatre Beyond Borders
The room is peppered with marker pens and flip-chart paper; we have been brainstorming lots of ideas throughout the week. There have been lots of questions and wonderful discussions about the future of StoneCrabs Theatre Company. It ‘s been over...
Read moreBrasiliance – Project Opening 2013
an oral history project StoneCrabs Theatre Company is launching an oral history project focusing on the oral histories of Brazilians living in London, who migrated to live or study or as a result of the military coups, between 1960s and 1980s...
Read moreThe Decorator – O Decorador
Swinging Sixties. The Girl From Ipanema is sunbathing at the beach; in the apartment across the road, 40 year old Marcia is in a very difficult position: Jane, the wife of her lover, turns up on her doorstep. Jane has come with the express...
Read moreTHE BURIAL – CASTING CALL
StoneCrabs Theatre Company is casting for THE BURIAL. We are looking for actors who are flexible, versatile and comfortable with both British and African (Nigerian) accents. Rehearsals will require both stamina and good physicality. Character...
Read moreThe Burial, by Bola Agbaje
StoneCrabs Theatre Company and The Albany Theatre, Deptford present the World Premiere of Olivier Award Winning Playwright Bola Agbaje’s latest play. The Burial is a lively new satire which explores how the conflicting traditions and religious...
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