Tag Archives: Coulsdon Community Centre
Bruising drama that delivers a punch against the patriarchy
KEN TOWL goes 12 rounds with the latest must-see play to be staged at the Coulsdon Community Centre. Photos by STEVE NORTH Director Anya Destiney has not made things easy for herself. The Sweet Science of Bruising makes big demands. … Continue reading
The Sweet Science of Bruising, TW Coulsdon, from Mar 21
C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T For ticket bookings for The Sweet Science of Bruising and more information about Theatre Workshop Coulsdon, visit their … Continue reading
Women are boxing clever to punch through the glass ceiling
It’s Victorian London, 1869. At the Angel Amphitheatre, four women are preparing for the battle of their lives. Polly Stokes has always been a fighter, ever since she was abandoned on a doorstep in Blackburn. Irish-born Mattie Blackwell lives on … Continue reading
The Sweet Science will be landing a blow for women’s cause
KEN TOWL got a behind-the-scenes preview of the next production from Coulsdon’s acclaimed theatre group, which he says will be a real knock-out In December, when I went to the Coulsdon Community Centre, I saw a great performance of My … Continue reading
Now wouldn’t that be loverly?! My Fair Lady comes to Coulsdon
Some of the best-known and most-loved show tunes ever written are about to be dusted off and performed with suitable gusto, as My Fair Lady is brought to the stage of the Coulsdon Community Centre this December. Possibly one of … Continue reading
Star performance by Scorziello brings true anarchy to Coulsdon
Our veteran theatre critic, BELLA BARTOCK, slips into her kitten heels and puts on her pearls for a big night out in Coulsdon, where the performances on stage were truly electric I was quite taken by surprise when the doorbell … Continue reading
Coulsdon theatre troupe quick to sign up for Capra’s classic
It could prove to be Croydon’s hottest ticket this Christmas, with seats selling fast even before Theatre Workshop Coulsdon confirmed performance dates for their production of It’s A Wonderful Life. One of the all-time great Christmas movies, directed by Frank … Continue reading
Coulsdon’s cast goes out to sea to deliver a complex catch
The latest play being performed this week on stage at the Coulsdon Community Centre is not to be missed, says KEN TOWL The orca is, in many ways, not what it seems. Also known as the killer whale, it is … Continue reading
Theatre Workshop Coulsdon production of Orca, Apr 20-27
Theatre Workshop Coulsdon production of Orca, Apr 20-27
‘Underhand’ Tories blame residents for medical centre delays
The almighty row in Coulsdon over a long-promised medical centre has seen the local Tories panicked into issuing multiple press releases to stake claim to some kind of “victory”, after the Tory-led council broke its promises to residents by putting … Continue reading
Spiffing adventure promised as Reg Rare comes to Coulsdon
They’ve “done” Dick Barton, Special Agent. Now Dan Dare is about the get the Theatre Workshop Coulsdon “treatment”. Coming to a community centre near you next month is Reginald Rare (geddit??!!), a fast-moving spoof about the “rocketeer extraordinaire”, for a … Continue reading
Coulsdon ‘shafted’ by Tories as NHS centre site put up for sale
CROYDON IN CRISIS: After an eight-year wait for a new health centre, residents have been shocked to discover the council flogging off the promised site. And now Mayor Perry claims there’s nothing he can do to prevent the sale. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading
Bah! Humbug! Scrooge-like poverty haunts modern Croydon
As the country slides into the kind of social division not seen since Victorian times, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon has a new production of a Dickens classic that shows we really ought to do better. KEN TOWL went along to see … Continue reading
Coulsdon theatre group donates to food hub at Christmas
Christmas Eve… A time for joyful anticipation, celebration and goodwill to all! Perhaps not all. To the poor and the hungry in Victorian London, Christmas Day was just another day to struggle through. And for Ebeneezer Scrooge it’s a day … Continue reading
Scorziello steals the show as Coulsdon drama gamble pays off
The latest play being staged by Coulsdon’s high-achieving amdram group succeeds in its huge ambition, says KEN TOWL The people at Theatre Workshop Coulsdon are ambitious. Instead of the relatively light and broadly mainstream fare of amateur theatre, in Machinal, … Continue reading
These Grimm Tales can lift the mood on the greyest of days
Stories of fairies and witches, goblins and wolves are being re-told red in tooth and claw, as BELLA BARTOCK, our arts correspondent, found out at the Theatre Workshop Coulsdon’s winter production It was only three o’clock in the afternoon on … Continue reading
Long-planned Coulsdon medical centre in ‘critical condition’
The long-planned development of the Coulsdon Medical Centre on the site of the CALAT building has been placed on hold. The front page of the latest edition of the newsletter from the Coulsdon West Residents’ Association puts it bluntly: “Critical … Continue reading
Death on the Thames: Conan Doyle’s writing rises again!
The latest theatre production at the Coulsdon Community Centre was good enough to have been a genuine Conan Doyle. ALLISON MACKENZIE joined an audience that was transfixed by the performers, and by the staging I had to check carefully when … Continue reading
