Stables Theatre Hastings

It’s 18 months since The Stables got its own Improv group and it’s going from strength to strength with a pool of 18 participants and regular monthly shows coming to The Stables’ Gwen Watford performance space from the start of June. Tim Kendrick, Scott Kingsnorth and Aisling Teodorescu recently chatted to Stuart Baillie about the group, its inception and how improv works. It’s a great podcast wit...

It’s always fascinating to sit down with Ross Drury for chat, there’s always so much going with his Spun Glass Theatre company and at The Stade Hall which Ross operates. In this podcast we hear about recent developments - including a new writer in residence - and about how Ross is committed to making theatre and performance accessible to all. Ross will be directing Quiz at The Stables next year.

Hastings born Richard Lock talks about his five year project to bring his play Vincent to the stage. Van Gogh wrote more than 800 letters to his brother Theo and it's using those letters that Richard has created a play that will shine fresh light on the great artist and leave the audience looking at Van Gogh in a way they had not considered him before.

Wilf Truscott from The Stables Youth Board talks about the work he does to encourage young people, who might not otherwise come to the theatre, through the door with a range of workshops and opportunities.

Darren Boyd has spent almost three decades working as an actor in TV and theatre. But what many people don't know is that Darren's love of acting began right here on the stage of The Stables. As he takes on his new role as Patron of The Stables he took time out of a busy schedule to reflect on his career and to recall his first tenantive steps on stage.

While on a cruise, Peter and Debbie meet Elsa, a strange but enchanting American woman and in her eyes their best friend. When she invites herself to stay with them a few months later, they finally look her up and discover her deadly secret but it’s too late! As Elsa quickly makes herself at home the two must find a way to get rid of her politely, and not let her cook them dinner. A frightfully fu...

Young people talking about their youth club and all that they like about their time at the club

Anne (known by everyone as Annie) Edwards is a well known figure around The Stables; she’s as at home on the stage as a performer as she is manning the box office or keeping the diary in order. Earlier this summer as part of the Scene and Heard festival Annie was nominated as one of the Female Heroes, she was nominated by Victoria Fay who said there was no one else more deserving of the recognitio...

Everyone knows about 9/11 not so many know that when the US closed its airspace, 38 planes carrying nearly 7,000 passengers from around the world were unexpectedly diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, nearly doubling the town’s population overnight. Come From Away is a heart-warming and multi award-winning musical, based on this remarkable true story. The show follows both the stranded 'come from awa...

The One Good Thing or Are Ya Patrick Swayze, in conversation with writer Joe Bravaco by Stables Theatre Hastings

Peter Mould is more than just a well known face around The Stables Theatre, he has been capturing amazing images of the shows and the actors in them for nearly a quarter of a century. So it was great fun to sit down and talk to the man behind the lens and find out that the soon to be 80-year-old has been taking puctures since he was just 14.

This absurdist tragicomedy expands upon the exploits of the ill-fated courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. This exhilarating new version presents the play with just four actors, in a rollercoaster of humour and poignancy. An amateur production brought to you by award-winning Different Theatre. Supported by The Cotton Theatre Trust. Directed by Sam Chittenden (Meet Me At Dawn). Featuring Ben Bae...

Cage Birds/White Lead by Stables Theatre Hastings

Set in the 1960s Murder, Maragret and Me imagines the conversations between two formidable women. Agatha Christie the ‘Queen of Crime’ is not thrilled that her dearest creation Miss Marple will be played by ‘funniest woman alive’ Margaret Rutherford. Rutherford herself is mortified about the prospect of being involved with a film which depicts murder. Both carry secrets that they would rather not...

Chris New and the Stable’s regular acting group are pleased to present their third new play here at the Stable’s Theatre ’SIR’. Following the success of the heartbreaking Harvest and the hilarious Power of Love, Chris is writing a large-cast production for the main stage, with parts specifically written for each acting group participant, irrespective of their prior experience.

Mayfly explores rebirth in the aftermath of tragedy. Mayfly premiered at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in April 2018, winning Joe White the Off-West End Award for Most Promising Playwright in 2019. Set in a Shropshire village this tender and wise play is suffused with grief, loss and unexpected laughs in which a family searches for new beginnings. Ben thinks his family might be better off wit...

Patrick Kealey has been described as "...a masterful performer, his renditions of the different characters... are superb." I've said before that I love meeting interesting people and Patrick Kealey is certainly that. An actor, director, producer and soon to be published author the 71 year old says he can look back on a life that he's lived on his own terms, with few regrets. He's directing After M...

'It’s like Kafka, but much funnier’ Through the exasperated voice of Archy, failed poet now reincarnated and trapped in the body of a cockroach, Don Marquis created a brilliant witty satirical insect eye view of humans and their endless follies - both hilarious and piercingly, painfully astute. Classic humour from New York’s jazz age ‘Best Actor - Buxton Fringe Festival 2024’ "Kealey is a masterfu...

It's election night 1945 and the working class is about to elect a new Labour government and herald a seismic change in British society that will alter the old order for good. Meanwhile in the bowels of a large country house, beautiful privileged Julie, daughter of an aristocrat, is playing a dangerous seductive game with John, his lordship's chauffeur. So begins Patrick Marber's brilliant update...

In this podcast we interview a young professional dancer in training, Matthew Potulski, to really learn what it takes to become a dancer in the modern industry. With insights into his journey through education and personal anecdotes about how it's affected him and his life, we lay out, for anyone interested, what becoming a dancer is really like. This is part of a series of podcasts being hosted b...

The Stables Theatre has just launched this year's new play writing competition. The search is on once again for new talent who have created an original piece of writing for the stage. In this podcast Stuart Baillie and Ben Randall talk about the history of the competition and about Ben's hopes for this year. You've got until the 15th of November to get your entries in, check out www.stablestheatre...

What's Going On at the Stables Theatre by Stables Theatre Hastings

“You’re the woman I watch from my train. I call you Jess. He’s Jason and you’re Jess. You have everything I lost. You’re everything I should have been.” Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disapp...

"There's a strange place called grief where all the rules have changed!" On the face of it Meet Me At Dawn, written by Scottish Playwright Zinnie Harris is a simple enough story, partners Robyn and Helen find themselves marooned on a beach after a boating accident. But the two gradually realise that all is not as it seems and the usual laws of time and space have been abandoned. Meet me at Dawn is...

The end, the beginning and the music in between... Last FIve Years is the emotional and intimate musical deconstruction of a love affair and marriage taking place over a five-year period. Jamie is a talented up-and-coming novelist who falls in love with Cathy, a struggling actress. As Rolling Sone said about this play, it: "Knocks you back on your heels. Just like love".