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CAST ANNOUNCEMENT📣
We're excited to announce the cast for this year's JMK-Award winning production
#GuardsattheTaj
Adam Karim directs Usaamah Ibraheem Hussain and Maanuv Thiara in Rajiv Joseph's
gripping modern classic.
📅 26 Oct - 16 Nov
🎟️ From £15:
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We’re grateful for support from the
#CulturalRecoveryFund
, which means that the Orange Tree Theatre will survive through until the spring of 2021, ready to re-emerge as the independent producing powerhouse it has become in recent years.
#HereForCulture
Full statement ⬇️
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⭐⭐⭐⭐“The brilliance of the dialogue and performances, and the rambunctious humour, mean that it's impossible not to have a good time.”
@WhatsOnStage
Paul Miller's production of THE FALSE SERVANT runs until 23 July🎭
🎟️:
📷:
@_otherrichard
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NEWS! Our production of
#AnOctoroon
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins will transfer to
@NationalTheatre
in June 2018!
#NTnews
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⚡Your first look at Diane Page's production of Dael Orlandersmith's YELLOWMAN, now playing until 8 October👥
🎟️Tickets from £15:
📷: Ali Wright
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Announcing Dame
#JudiDench
in conversation, hosted by
@gylesB1
: available to stream online to support the Orange Tree Theatre from Sun 26 April at 3pm.
Find out more >>
Watch the trailer…
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We're excited to announce that Hanna Streeter has been appointed as the next Executive Director of the Orange Tree Theatre. She will succeed Sarah Nicholson in March 2019, working alongside Artistic Director Paul Miller.
Find out more >
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We're thrilled to welcome Liam Shea as the OT's new Education & Participation Director.
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We're excited to announce that
@JMKTrust1
winner Roy Alexander Weise (
@RAWeiseArtist
) will direct Uprising: a collage of short plays and works-in-progress from our Writers Collective on 1 July.
Roy just directed
#NineNight
@NationalTheatre
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We are looking for emerging writers to join the Orange Tree Writers Collective 📣
A programme cleverly curated by OT Associate Directors Guy Jones and
@NatashaRickman
⭐
Applications will close on 31 July 2023 📅
Apply now:
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Today we wave goodbye to Sarah Nicholson, our Executive Director of almost five years. Sarah's contribution and personality cannot be summed up in 280 characters, but she has been inspirational and we feel very fortunate to have benefited from her incredible leadership. ❤️🍊🌳
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We're delighted to announce that next month we'll be welcoming the award-winning and wildly talented Ben Whishaw to the OT as the next guest in our Under the Orange Tree series🍊🌳
Ben will be in conversation with Patricia Myers OBE on Sun 18 Feb👏
🔗
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A huge welcome to our new Executive Director, Hanna Streeter, who starts today. Hanna joins us from
@painesplough
, where she was Senior Producer.
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We're delighted to announce that Tom Littler has been appointed as the next Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre.
🔗:
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We’re delighted to welcome Bec Martin-Williams (
@becm42
) to the Orange Tree family as our new Education & Participation Director!
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We’re thrilled that
@ace_national
and
@DCMS
are supporting the Orange Tree’s recovery with a Culture Recovery Fund grant.
#HereForCulture
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ARTISTS ASSEMBLE!
The Orange Tree is delighted to be starting The OT Artist Network for professional artists. As part of the network there will be monthly talks and events.
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It's five years since Paul Miller (
@pmiller67
) became our Artistic Director! We're celebrating by taking a look back at the last five years this week...
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We are proud to announce the six playwrights on the Orange Tree Writers Collective 2018. They are Samuel Bailey, Zoë Guzy-Sprague, Femi Keeling, Freddie Machin, Carmen Nasr & Ross Willis
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Enjoying
#Bridgerton
? Huge congrats to OT acting alumni including
@nicolacoughlan
@SabrinaLois13
@MartinsImhangbe
@ItsAshHunter
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Our love language:
🎭 🎭 🎭 🎭
🎭 🎭 🎭
🎭 90 minutes 🎭
🎭 no interval 🎭
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🎭 🎭
🎭
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NEW WRITERS’ OPPORTUNITY
We’re opening submissions for 3 playwrights and 1 dramaturg to join the OT’s Writers Collective, a development programme for emerging writers led by OT Literary Associate
@guymeirionjones
.
Submissions open from 5 – 22 Jan.
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📢CASTING CALL📢
We are advertising for two unique and brilliant roles for an actor who is deaf and an actor who identifies as disabled in the acclaimed play, THE SOLID LIFE OF SUGAR WATER by Jack Thorne, directed Indiana Lown-Collins.
Find out more👇
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We're thrilled to have won the
@uk_theatre
Award for Most
#WelcomingTheatre
in London for a record-breaking third year in a row! Huge thanks to everyone who voted for us and congratulations to all our brilliant, hard-working staff. 👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆
Winner of the UK’s Most
#WelcomingTheatre
in
#London
is…
@OrangeTreeThtr
👏👏👏 Congratulations!
#UKTawards
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Here is the first look at THAT FACE in rehearsals👪
Playing from 9 September, the previously announced Niamh Cusack stars alongside
@SaritaGabony
Kasper Hilton-Hille, Dominic Mafham and
@rubysstokes
directed by
@josh_sey
🎟️Get your tickets now:
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Today is our 50th birthday! 🎂
#OT50
Founded by Sam Walters on 31 December 1971, our first performance was of Go Tell It on Table Mountain by Evan Jones, in a room above the Orange Tree pub.
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We're delighted to have won this special award for the 2nd year in a row! Thank you to all our audiences who voted for us!
#WelcomingTheatre
Congratulations
@OrangeTreeThtr
! You have won the 2017 public vote & are named London's Most
#WelcomingTheatre
>>
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We’re thrilled to announce plans for the reopening of the OT on 22 May with five productions. We can’t wait to welcome you back safely.
#OTRecoverySeason
#BackOnStage
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We're looking for an exceptional director to direct an abridged version of Macbeth which will play to around 3,000 young people in Spring 2019 as part of our Shakespeare Up Close project.
#artsjobs
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All at the Orange Tree are shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Alex Beckett. A superb actor of great range, charm, intelligence and wit, he shone in Caryl Churchill’s Blue Heart at the OT in 2016. An enormously warm, kind man: he will be much missed.
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Congrats to
#Offies2018
winners
@ned_bennett
&
@Ken_Nwosu
for
#AnOctoroon
! Transferring to
@NationalTheatre
in June.
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Announcing the cast for Arinzé Kene’s
#LittleBabyJesus
, directed by
@TristanFAiduenu
, Winner of the JMK Award 2019. Welcome to
@ANYEBEGODWIN
,
@RachelShapes
and
@KhaiShaw
!
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Rehearsals have begun for HERE IN AMERICA📽️
We're thrilled to have this incredible company at the OT. This morning's table read was fantastic so, audiences, you're in for a real treat.
📅 14 Sep - 19 Oct
🎟️ Tickets selling fast:
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Full details announced for
#AnOctoroon
@NationalTheatre
We're delighted that the entire cast and creative team return for the transfer of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins extraordinary play to the Dorfman following its sold out run here!
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#competition
To celebrate Michael Morpurgo's
#IBelieveInUnicorns
- RT for chance to win a set of children's books before midnight 8 Jan
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We want to say a huge thank you and congratulations to everyone involved in Arinzé Kene’s incredible
#LittleBabyJesus
, so brilliantly directed by JMK Award winner
@TristanFAiduenu
, which ends its phenomenally successful 5 star run today! 👏👏👏
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📣 Want to direct a play at the Orange Tree this autumn? Directors 35 and under: find out more about applying for The JMK Award, in our new partnership with
@JMKTrust1
- applications close Wednesday ⏰
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Tonight we were joined by
#PhilipGlenister
&
#JohnSimm
for an In Conversation with Artistic Director Paul Miller, a special fundraiser for the work of the OT. Thanks to everyone who came and supported.
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Tonight’s the night! After over a year of closure, we reopen our doors to you! 😊
#BreakALeg
to the cast and all the team working on
#ShawShorts
, our first production in the
#OTRecoverySeason
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Huge congratulations to Branden Jacobs-Jenkins for winning the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright for
#AnOctoroon
- we were so thrilled to produce its European premiere. See it
@NationalTheatre
from June.
#ESTheatreAwards
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CAST ANNOUNCEMENT📣
We’re excited to announce the cast for the world premiere of HERE IN AMERICA📽️
James Dacre directs Michael Aloni, Jasmine Blackborow, Faye Castelow and Shaun Evans in David Edgar's compelling new drama.
📅 14 Sep – 19 Oct
🎟️
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Wahoo!! Huge congratulations to the wonderful
@IsleyLynn
who has won the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright for
#TheSwell
at this evening’s
@EveningStandard
Theatre Awards. We are THRILLED
#EveningStandardTheatreAwards
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We're excited to announce the cast and full creative team for our first live-streamed show, INSIDE, direct from the Orange Tree auditorium into your living room next week from 25 - 27 March.
£10 Early Bird Tickets available until Thursday.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Paul Miller will step down as Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre this year.
🔗
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Sadly Josh Azouz’s
#TheMikvahProject
played its last performance on Saturday night. At the time we didn’t realise it would be the last. With remaining performances cancelled, we wanted to take a moment to say a huge thank you to everyone involved in this wonderful production 🙏
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Here is our 2023 OT Writers Collective✍
️Oli Higginson, Kelly Jones, Clarisse Makundul, Anne Odeke, Ric Renton and Lydia Sabatini.
The Collective is an opportunity for a group of writers to share skills and fire up conversations and collaborations🍊🌳
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“The expectation is that in the 15 months after we reopen we would spend £440,000 on freelancers – the survival of the Orange Tree is also about the survival of the freelance ecology.”
@pmiller67
talks to
@lyngardner
in
@TheStage
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We're thrilled to announce Dame Maggie Smith in conversation with
@GylesB1
on 19 Nov. Tickets on sale midday 5 Sep.
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OT Ambassador
#FionnWhitehead
talks about starring in the film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s
#TheChildrenAct
. Fionn started acting in our Youth Theatre.
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We're excited to announce the cast and full creative team for our live-streamed show, OUTSIDE, direct from the Orange Tree auditorium into your living room next week from 15 – 17 April.
Part of
#InsideOutside
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Huge congrats to the AMSTERDAM team for tonight’s press night! 👏👏👏
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We stand in solidarity with Black artists, colleagues, audiences, and the Black community. We do not and will never tolerate racism in any form.
#BlackLivesMatter
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A round of applause to the amazing company of UNCLE VANYA who have their final two shows today.
You have astounded over 8,000 people with your beautiful production and it's been a pleasure to see🧡
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"I think it's going to speak to all of us in lots of different ways.”
On the hottest day of the year so far, rehearsals kicked off for the world premiere production of
#HereInAmerica
with an electrifying first readthrough👇
📅 14 Sep - 19 Oct
🎟️
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We're thrilled to announce INSIDE/OUTSIDE: a collection of world premiere short plays by six emerging and established writers, performed and live-streamed from the Orange Tree Theatre auditorium via
#OTonScreen
.
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NEWS: We’re thrilled that our Artistic Director
@pmiller67
will be directing
#Macbeth
@ChichesterFT
this autumn
John Simm and Dervla Kirwan head the cast of
#Shakespeare
’s great tragedy of ruinous ambition,
#Macbeth
. Chichester-born
@pmiller67
directs a contemporary production on the Festival Theatre stage.
#Festival2019
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We're delighted to have won
@UKTheatreAwards
for
#MostWelcomingTheatre
in London! Thank you to everyone who voted!
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#Arinz
éKene's
#LittleBabyJesus
has been nominated for 3
#Offies
!
🏆PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE
@ANYEBEGODWIN
@RachelShapes
@KhaiShaw
🏆DIRECTOR (PLAYS)
@TristanFAiduenu
🏆SOUND DESIGN
@nicolatchang
Congratulations!
See the show >>
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📣 NEW JOB VACANCY 📣
We’re recruiting for an Education & Participation Director to join the OT team, and help us engage with over 10,000 people each year through our unrivalled E+P programme!
📆Applications close 5pm, 24th March 2021.
#artsjobs
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Happy
#LoveTheatreDay
! Celebrating the uniqueness of live theatre.
The Orange Tree is London’s only permanent theatre in the round. Life as it's lived: unplugged and un-miked. Close-up magic. Truths the hand can touch.
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Congratulations are also in order for Kasper Hilton-Hille and Ruby Stokes, who have both received Offie nominations for Newcomer👏👏
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We’re hugely excited that the wonderful
@Georgia___Green
has been nominated for The Stage
#DebutAward
for directing Josh Azouz’s
#TheMikvahProject
, which closed early when we went into lockdown. Congratulations Georgia! 👏👏👏
We are pleased to announce the nominees for Best Director, sponsored by Smith & Williamson are Georgia Green, Martha Kiss Perrone and Alex Sutton at this year’s The Stage
#DebutAwards
.
Find the full shortlist at:
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Congratulations to Kasper Hilton-Hille and Ruby Stokes👏
Both have been named as finalists in the Newcomer category at this year's
@OffWestEndCom
Awards.
#OFFIES
2024 FINALISTS: NEWCOMER (2/2): “That Face” at Orange Tree Theatre
@OrangeTreeThtr
: Kasper Hilton-Hille & Ruby Stokes
@rubysstokes
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We've been nominated for Fringe Theatre of the Year! 🎉🎉🎉
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"New figures show the arts and culture industry now contributes £8.5bn to the UK economy. More than double that of the Premier League."
Arts & culture are the lifeblood of our creative industries - economically as well as creatively. New reports:
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📢 We're excited to announce that
#AmsterdamPlay
will be available for FREE online from 7.30pm tonight!
Our co-production with
@ATCLondon
&
@TRPlymouth
, directed by
@Excalibah
, and filmed live at the OT last autumn 📽️
#WorldTheatreDay2020
>>
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Writers: you can be a part of the Orange Tree in 2018 - applications for the OT Writers Collective open in January. More info here:
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#BreakALeg
to the wonderful cast & team of
#AnOctoroon
for tonight's press night of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins phenomenal play
@NationalTheatre
!
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Here’s Team
#Mayfly
at the
#Offies
:
@MojoeWhite
holding his Most Promising Playwright Award, with cast member actor Irfan Shamji (Best Male Performance finalist) and director
@guymeirionjones
. We’re very proud of you all! 🏆 👏👏👏
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📢 DIRECTORS: We're looking for an exceptional theatre director to direct an abridged version of Romeo &Juliet which will play to around 3,500 young people in spring 2020 as part of our Shakespeare Up Close project.
Find out more >>
#directors
#directing
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We are looking for a Literary Associate to join the OT artistic team and support our programming and development of new artists.
📅 APPLY BY Thur 16 May, 10am
🔗
📷 NORTHANGER ABBEY image by Pamela Raith
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Announcing our New Season! Here's what we've got coming up from September 2017 - March 2018
#OTnewseason
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We’re thrilled that Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has won the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright for An Octoroon and Gloria.
#AnOctoroon
transfers to
@NationalTheatre
in June.
#CriticsCircleAwards
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Delighted that
@ace_national
have awarded £75k over 3 years to the Orange Tree as part of the Catalyst: Evolve fund
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★★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★★ The Stage
★★★★ Time Out
★★★★ The Upcoming
★★★★ Broadway World
★★★★ The Reviews Hub
Catch up on the reviews for
#Arinz
éKene's
#LittleBabyJesus
directed
@TristanFAiduenu
, winner of the JMK Award 2019
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NEWS! Dame Judi Dench will take to the Orange Tree stage for the first time in conversation with
@GylesB1
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This weekend’s performances of
#FrenchWithoutTears
are dedicated to the people of France. Our thoughts are with them
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👀 Keep your eyes peeled. We’ve got some exciting news coming today...
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GRIM BRENDA brings together award-winning playwright
@RossWillis0
(Wonder Boy) and director
@ned_bennett
(Pomona, An Octoroon), for a stunning exploration of love, loss and life👼💀
Co-produced with
@FMP_Theatre
(Fleabag).
Find out more👉
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Congrats to
@MojoeWhite
who has been nominated for Best Writer at
@TheStage
Debut Awards for
#Mayfly
. Joe was part of our Writers Collective and we were thrilled to premiere his debut play this year.
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We’re sad to learn of the death of Dame June Whitfield. We were honoured to welcome her to our stage this year for a special fundraiser for the Theatre. We’re so grateful to her for giving her time and for sharing such wonderful stories. Our thoughts are with her family & friends
A standing ovation for Dame June Whitfield after her gala matinee
@OrangeTreeThtr
Richmond! What a treat to be there!
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📣 NEW JOB VACANCY 📣
We’re recruiting for a director for our PRIMARY SHAKESPEARE Project. They will direct an abridged Shakespeare play of their choosing, which will play to around 3,000 young people this Summer.
📆Applications close 9am, 30th March.
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🖌We’ve had a facelift just in time for reopening!🖌
Huge thanks to Designer
@Simon_Daw_
who has reimagined the exterior of the theatre and to all the team who have fitted it.
📸
@_otherrichard
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Huge congratulations to Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who has been nominated for the Evening Standard's Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright for
#AnOctoroon
- you'll be able to see it again
@NationalTheatre
in June 2018!
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With our in conversation with
#JudiDench
being released to watch from Sunday, we thought we’d celebrate some of her work on stage throughout an incredible career.
You can pre-order the film now and support the OT >>
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We're thrilled that
@TristanFAiduenu
is the winner of the 2019 JMK Award. He will direct a production of Arinzé Kene’s
#LittleBabyJesus
here at the OT in the autumn.
Find out more >>
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🧡A huge Thank You and Congratulations to the wonderful
#TheSugarSyndrome
company, creatives and Stage Management on a fantastic run! Thank you from all of us at the
@OrangeTreeThtr
and here’s to the most brilliant final performance !🧡
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We're 45 today! Here's a photo from our first show Go Tell It On Table Mountain by Evan Jones on 31 Dec 1971
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Our Literary Associate will be in Edinburgh next month, seeing new work and making new connections. If you’d like to invite the Orange Tree to your show, please email literary
@orangetreetheatre
.co.uk
#edfringe2018
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We're so thrilled to say that our production of
#TheMikvahProject
by Josh Azouz will be broadcast on
@BBCRadio4
as part of
#LockdownTheatreFestival
, which has just been announced...
Plays from
@royalcourt
,
@OrangeTreeThtr
,
@LyricHammer
and
@rxtheatre
forced to close early will be broadcast on the radio
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Delighted and honoured to be this year's recipient of the Empty Space Peter Brook Award for most innovative venue
@CCTAwards
. Thank you so much.
#CriticsCircleAwards
The Empty Space Peter Brook Award is presented to Orange Tree Theatre. 🏆
#CriticsCircleAwards
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Next Sunday you’ll be able to watch Dame
#JudiDench
in conversation, talking about her incredible career with
@gylesB1
: available to stream online to support the Orange Tree Theatre.
Pre-order now >>
Watch the trailer…
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Confirmed: Alistair McDowall's
#Pomona
transfers to
@NationalTheatre
in Sep &
@rxtheatre
Oct!
http://t.co/14Dx8g9rpb
http://t.co/zcPk8RtkC0
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📢Cast announced for THE SOLID LIFE OF SUGAR WATER by Jack Thorne
As winner of the 2022 JMK Award,
@IndianaLown
directs
@KatieErichActor
and
@AdamPFenton
🎟️Previews from 15 October with tickets from £15
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Huge huge huge congratulations to Kasper and so deserved x
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Absolutely delighted that
@IsleyLynn
has been nominated for Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright for
#TheSwell
in the
@EveningStandard
Theatre Awards.
#EveningStandardTheatreAwards
Photo by Ali Wright
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