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Theatre Workshop Coulsdon production of Orca, Apr 20-27
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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 show generated festive spirit with food donations
This year’s Christmas show at the Coulsdon Community Centre might have been about tight-wad Scrooge, but it prompted a massive outpouring of generosity and goodwill from locals, who provided a van-load of donations for the Purley Food Hub. Theatre Workshop … 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
Here’s wishing our readers a Wassailingly great Christmas
And a Wassailingly good Christmas to all Inside Croydon’s loyal readers! Thanks to the lovely people at Theatre Workshop Coulsdon and the cast of their Grimm Tales show for this musical Christmas card for 2022. We’re switching off the Roneo … 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
Spine-chilling Christmas awaits in a magical forest of myth
The Coulsdon Theatre Workshop has a spine-chilling Christmas special lined up next month, all staged in a dark forest of magic and myth. Their latest production is Grimm Tales – a new theatrical adaptation weaving 10 of the best tales … Continue reading
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Actors achieving greatness in a Coulsdon wooded glade
DRAMA IN THE PARKS: Somewhere under the trees in Old Coulsdon is an Elizabethan rom-com romp. BELLA BARTOCK had it, and herself, covered As I gazed across the fairway at one of Coulsdon Court’s “twilighters” ferreting around in the undergrowth … Continue reading
Twelfth Night, Coulsdon Manor Hotel, Jul 27-Aug 6
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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
Sherlock Holmes, Coulsdon Community Centre, Apr 2-9
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Jason and the Argonauts, Coulsdon, Dec 11 to 19
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Community at the heart and centre of Coulsdon’s latest mystery
Whodunnit? SANJANA IDNANI went along to the Theatre Workshop Coulsdon’s long-delayed production of an Agatha Christie classic and found the community centre the subject of a made-in-Croydon cliff-hanger There was something odd about sitting among a sold-out auditorium at the … Continue reading
The show must go on: theatre groups prepare for reopening
SANJANA IDNANI reports on how local theatrical venues and amdram groups have been dealing with the covid lockdown as they prepare to put on their summer shows Theatre companies and performers across the borough have faced their fair share of … Continue reading
Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Jul 31-Aug 7
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Culture deals with covid-19 without making a song and dance
The sense of doom and gloom caused by the covid-19 pandemic had well and truly taken hold of London by the middle of last week. There was a dark humour about the place reflected by the public address system at … Continue reading
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