New Theatre (Nottingham)

New Theatre (Nottingham)
The New Theatre.

The New Theatre is a playhouse and production company based on University Park campus, Nottingham, England. It is funded in part by the University of Nottingham Students' Union and constitutes one of the Union's 10 Student-Run Services.[1] It is the only entirely student-run theatre in England.[2]

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Organisation and Structure

The New Theatre is housed in the Archaeology and Classics building of the University of Nottingham. In 2001 an extended foyer was added to the building, due to a generous donation from Mr Wallner, an alumnus of the University.

All aspects of the theatre are run by the 16 members of the New Theatre committee, although the producer and director of individual shows are given a large degree autonomy with regards to their productions.

Committee

The theatre's productions are open to the public and any student at the University of Nottingham can become a member. Once you are a member, you can receive a discount on theatre tickets and get involved in any aspect of running the theatre. Each semester a 'proposals meeting' is held by the committee at which any member/s can suggest a play that that they wish to direct. Once the upcoming season's plays are chosen by the committee, auditions are held by the production team of each play. As soon as the plays have been cast at the 'casting meeting', production teams are given a budget by the theatre treasurer and allowed a certain amount of autonomy, with the support of the Productions Co-ordinator on hand if they need it.

Each play is expected to break even but many make a profit that is then channeled back into improving the theatre's facilities and offering.

Productions

New Theatre at the Fringe

Each year, the New Theatre takes an 'official' show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and supports any number of shows being performed and produced at the fringe by its members. In 2007, these shows included an adaptation of 'Alice Through the Looking Glass'(New Theatre[3]), 'Dearly Deported' by Charles Brafman (Ankle Productions[4]) and 'Slippery Soapbox: Spotbanded Skat' (ShutYOface Productions).

In 2008 the New Theatre took two shows; an ensemble devised piece ('Crossing The Rubicon', C Soco Chambers Street 12pm), and a piece of new writing by Anthony Lau ('Cross-Stitching', C Soco Chambers Street 1pm) officially. Also performing were Ribcaged Productions Ltd ('The Bear Who Paints'), Ankle Productions ('The Third Condiment'), Chimera Theatre Group ('Vivien') and Cicero Productions ('Written Off', their casts and crew being New Theatre members and alumni.

In 2009 the New Theatre took Warehouse 364, written and directed by Andy McNamee, who stepped into a role for one performance when a cast member was unable to perform.

In 2010 the New Theatre took another two shows; Only One Wing, written by Lizzie Bourne and directed by Andy McNamee, and The Retreat, written by Jenni Herzberg and directed by Becky Caitlin.

In 2011 the New Theatre took another two shows: Beef written by Rose Williams and directed by Liz Stevenson, Chasing Dragons written by Adam H. Wells and directed by Dan Rae-Scott.

In 2010 and 2011, Paulden Productions (co-founded by former New Theatre president Matt Leventhall) took FRESHER: The Musical to the fringe, where it won several accolades, including Musical Theatre Matters award for "Best New Musical".

New Theatre at NSDF

In 2007 and 2008 New Theatre entered a number of shows into the National Student Drama Festival competition. In both years two productions were selected by the NSDF judges as finalists and were performed at the Festival in Scarborough. In 2008 the theatre's shows 'Disco Pigs' and 'Proof' won 6 awards between them, with the theatre also receiving the 'Judges’ Award for Promoting Student Theatre'.[5]

"The NSDF, however, is about drama, not drama students, and a university with no theatre studies at all had two shows in performance. Nottingham University presented an in-the-round version of Enda Walsh’s violent, despairing Disco Pigs, and a polished production of the American David Auburn’s recent West End success Proof. Directed by a student of industrial economics, a cast consisting of a physicist, an English major, a sociologist and a student of Spanish and Portuguese became convincing Chicagoans in a coolly filmic study of family relations. The linguist Anna Wheatley won the Spotlight award for best actress as the daughter who bears the curse of inheriting her father’s mathematical genius, and Guy Unsworth, who designed the atmospheric set as well as directing the excellent cast, won the Directors’ Guild award." (Robert Hewison,© Copyright 2008 Times Newspapers Ltd.)[6]

In 2011, four separate shows from New Theatre were selected by NSDF, from a total of 13 shows nationally.[7] These included: After the End, Orphans, Bluebird and This Wide Night. The company went on to win four awards at NSDF 2011: three Judges' awards for acting, one to Douggie McMeekin (Orphans), and two to Meg Salter and Lucy Bromilow (both for This Wide Night) respectively, and Best Design for After the End.[8]

Alumni

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