Carlton Dramatic Society

Get your ideas in to the committee for what you'd like to dofor the 2004 workshops, taking place at the WCC on February 26 and 27. One-act plays, short monologues, whatever you like. The more the merrier! Click here for the 2003 Workshops programme.

Get your ideas in to the committee for what you'd like to dofor the 2004 workshops, taking place at the WCC on February 26 and 27. One-act plays, short monologues, whatever you like. The more the merrier! Click here for the 2003 Workshops programme.

Well Done to all involved in this fantastic production!According to a local reviewer, the show had

"Bollywood dances, comic interludes, a scene- and hat-stealing dog, great original music and fantastic costumes combined to make a wonderfully enjoyable evening's entertainment. The set was innovative and flexible, and the intrusions from the other Verona play (R&J) were hilarious."

You all deserve a pat on the back and a pint of foaming nut-brown ale for your efforts, with the venue changing under your feet, performance week being brought forward and so on.
Watch this space for the website, complete with photos - coming sooner than you think!

Welcome all to the updated website! Take look around, thereare a few slight changes.

The Hypochondriac has had a facelift, the News & Gossip page has been revamped - all the old news flashes are now in the Archives (just click the links to the right), and the the front page has been given a swift cleanup. Enjoy!

The time is upon us! The guys have been working extra-hard over the weeks, so come on down to The Charles Cryer Theatre in Carshalton and take a look at the fruits of their labours.

See here for more information.

The Visit is now a stylish black!

I've been modernising the Amadeus pages - now looking somewhat more artistic than they did!

Find out what these two are fighting about! Visit the Much Ado About Nothing pages

Our production for November 2003 is Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare. Directed by Pippa Cain, this is a colourful musical production and is rumoured to include a pitch invasion from that other Shakespeare play from Verona. See here for more information.

Finally, the details of this production are online here!

See here for an exciting story.

RawActive! Theatre is a Theatre Games event taking place during AbbeyFest at Merton Abbey Mills. Teams of actors, many of whom are from The Carlton will battle it out in various acting games to become the RawActive! Theatre champions of 2003. Click here for details.

"An amateur dramatics group who were saved with the help of actress June Whitfield after the closure of Wimbledon Theatre are making a bold comeback with a new production.

Carlton Dramatic Society, who were left without a performance venue for their plays since Wimbledon's closure in June, are set to stage a special version of Shakespeare's Two Gentleman of Verona. The humorous and surprising play, adapted by husband and wife directing team Adam and Pippa Cain, is to be staged at Carshalton's Charles Cryer Studio Theatre from Monday to Friday, October 17.

A hilarious story of love and mishaps the show will combine Gilbert and Sullivan songs, Bollywood dancing, cross-dressing, bad hairdos, and even see a pitch invasion from Romeo and Juliet!

The show will be particularly poignant for the directors who met through the society five years ago, as they are shortly moving to Gloucestershire. Mr Cain said: "It has been great fun doing this play from writing it to performing it with our 20-strong cast. It will be very sad to leave all our friends in the society when we move but this show will be a great note to leave on. Everyone in the group have been determined not to let the closure of Wimbledon Theatre stop us from performing and we were thrilled to find a new venue in time."

The society hit a crisis in the summer after the theatre suddenly closed. It meant the profits from their May production of Dr and Mrs Faustus at the theatre could not be paid until the new owners, the Ambassador Theatre Group, took control of the finances. In August the society's president, June Whitfield, opened a fete in a member's Wimbledon Village garden which raised nearly £500. The result meant Carlton could still stage its autumn production. The society hope to return to the Wimbledon Studio theatre once the venue reopens next year.

Performances of Two Gentlemen of Verona are at 8pm. Tickets are £7 (concessions £5). Box Office: 0208 770 4950."

Our production for May 2003, Dr. and Mrs. Faustus by MehmetC. Izbudak was a great success - well done to everyone involved. Webpage coming soon!