StoneCrabs Theatre is looking for actors for Playdoh, StoneCrabs Young Directors’ Online Research & Development Session CASTING CALL CLOSED Actors required for 7 hours across 3 sessions that can be decided between director and actor on...
Read morePride In The Face Of Prejudice: The Stonewall Riots
A retrospective on the Stonewall Riots Today marks the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. On this day in 1969, at around one in the morning, the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a New York bar on Christopher Street that was a haven for the...
Read moreLatest news – a heartfelt thank you
StoneCrabs is incredibly grateful to have been awarded the Arts Council Emergency Response Fund thanks to the National Lottery Players (for organisations – non NPO). Scroll down to learn what this means to us. A heartfelt...
Read moreOUR STORIES MATTER – Open Call to LGBTQ+ writers
Our Stories Matter, open call to LGBTQ+ writers with an Isle of Wight connection Out On An Island invites members of the LGBTQ+ community with an Isle of Wight connection to contribute their experiences of life on the island for a new book to be...
Read moreCoronavirus: how it affects our activities
We are monitoring the coronavirus outbreak closely, taking guidance from our Board of Trustees, the UK Government and the NHS daily. Our position up to now has been to continue our work as normally as we possibly can, but with an eye to an...
Read moreStoneCrabs Theatre appoints Fabio Santos MBE as Executive Director
StoneCrabs Theatre has appointed arts consultant Fabio Santos to the newly created post of Executive Director. He will be working alongside the company’s founding director, Franko Figueiredo, who continues in his role as Artistic Director. Fabio...
Read moreWhat We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Coming Out’
It’s a whole genre of videos on YouTube, a feature of almost every LGBTQ+ storyline on television and there’s a whole day dedicated to it on October 11th each year. But what exactly do we mean when we talk about coming out? Little ways we come...
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Can we live and love in a different way?
“Inês and myself got really inspired by the audience responses to “Tieta” our last play and decided to re-work the idea, and together with Almiro Andrade, we created something that used all the elements that the audiences had enjoyed. We...
Read moreOpportunity to join StoneCrabs board of trustees
StoneCrabs Theatre is seeking new Trustees to complement and expand the skills and networks of our existing Board.
Read moreIntercultural theatre: a melting pot of inspiration….
Many well-known theatre practitioners have turned to other cultures for inspiration: from Antonin Artaud, who was particularly inspired by Balinese dance, to Bertolt Brecht, who was interested in China’s theatrical traditions; from Jerzy...
Read moreWhy StoneCrabs’ Training for Young Directors is Important and how YOU can Help!
There’s no straight road to becoming a theatre director. The route is winding, improvised, long, hard, unpaid and often without promise. It’s lonely – and most of the time completely terrifying – attempting, as a training director, to guide...
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