Drama

    Saturday 2nd July – Forest Fest

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    A fun day out for all the family, featuring live music, dance and drama performances, children’s activities, specialist workshops – from play-writing to DJing, as well as a wide selection of market stalls showcasing the best art, craft and produce that the local area has to offer! Refreshments and delicious food available all day.

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    Sunday 3rd July – Arts in the Park

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    Family Fun Day in Home Park – In Association with Friends of Home Park. The festival kicks off its opening weekend with five fabulous hours of free family fun, entertainment and activities at Home Park.
    This is going to be the most fun you ever had in one day!

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    Wednesday 6th July – The Wind in the Willows

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    The company that brought you last year’s Alice in Wonderland Tea-Party and The Three Musketeers return with a brand new adaptation of this classic. Join Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad in their magical adventures in the Wild Wood. Featuring some very well-known songs and a few surprises, don’t forget to watch out for the Weasels!

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    Thursday 7th July – The Wind in the Willows

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    The company that brought you last year’s Alice in Wonderland Tea-Party and The Three Musketeers return with a brand new adaptation of this classic. Join Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad in their magical adventures in the Wild Wood. Featuring some very well-known songs and a few surprises, don’t forget to watch out for the Weasels!

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    Thursday 7th July – Scratch Play: An Evening of Short Scenes

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    Turn up, perform and have fun! All performance experiences welcome. A community theatre event for all Scratch Play is an evening of vignettes and short scenes presented with minimal preparation in a workshop atmosphere comprising of monologues, duologues and scenes for multiple voice. All texts and script material that will be used will be sent

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    Friday 8th July – Cedric’s Collection of Useful Things

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    presented by GewGaw Children’s Theatre. If you turn right, walk up to the top of the hill and then stop… look straight ahead… just behind the trees… can you see it? That strange looking house. Do you know who lives there…? Spend an evening in the company of Cedric Hatworthy Esq, late of this parish. But don’t touch his things, that’s what started all the trouble…

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    Friday 8th July – Express Yourself! New Plays Night

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    An evening of exciting and totally original drama, from the next generation of great playwrights! Enjoy these platform performances of fresh, hot-off-the-press, ‘5 minute playlets’ – the fruits of Roy Williams’ playwriting workshop – performed by professional actors.

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    Saturday 9th July – The Wind in the Willows

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    The company that brought you last year’s Alice in Wonderland Tea-Party and The Three Musketeers return with a brand new adaptation of this classic. Join Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad in their magical adventures in the Wild Wood. Featuring some very well-known songs and a few surprises, don’t forget to watch out for the Weasels!

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    Tuesday 12th July – Ocelot Gymkhana: The Final

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    An evening of short plays and sketches by The Brothers Kaufman, presented by Spontaneous Productions Directed by Jonathan Kaufman, original music by Julian Kaufman Ocelot Gymkhana – the show they couldn’t kill – is back! A selection of the Bros Kaufman’s very best, award-winning short plays and sketches. Weird, mildly amusing, ‘generally funny’ (Time Out),

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    Friday 15th July – Pop Up Theatre Project

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    A unique collaboration between local theatre companies and Sydenham Arts Festival, the Pop Up Theatre Project brings live theatre into the high street. Audiences will be invited to sample innovative theatrical experiences in empty shops and premises, specially converted into performance spaces.

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    Friday 15th July – The Joy of Wine

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    presented by The Black Sheep directed by Cal McCrystal (The Mighty Boosh, Spymonkey, Cirque de Soleil) In this gloriously silly and hilariously entertaining show, the Reverend Andrew Jones will try his best to convert the lager-swilling luddites of South London to the drink of kings (and tramps) – wine! Explore the dark habit of the

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    Saturday 16th July – Street Celebration

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    For the final weekend, the high street of Sydenham transforms into a cavalcade of free music, theatre and activities for all the family. Pavements are changed into stages and music venues, shop-fronts converted into playgrounds, empty premises become art galleries and theatre spaces, with buskers, performers and pavement artists along the whole street. And don’t

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    Saturday 16th July – Pop Up Theatre Project

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    A unique collaboration between local theatre companies and Sydenham Arts Festival, the Pop Up Theatre Project brings live theatre into the high street. Audiences will be invited to sample innovative theatrical experiences in empty shops and premises, specially converted into performance spaces

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    Saturday 16th July – Cedric’s Collection of Useful Things

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    presented by GewGaw Children’s Theatre. If you turn right, walk up to the top of the hill and then stop… look straight ahead… just behind the trees… can you see it? That strange looking house. Do you know who lives there…? Spend an evening in the company of Cedric Hatworthy Esq, late of this parish. But don’t touch his things, that’s what started all the trouble…

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    Sunday 17th July – Cedric’s Collection of Useful Things

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    presented by GewGaw Children’s Theatre. If you turn right, walk up to the top of the hill and then stop… look straight ahead… just behind the trees… can you see it? That strange looking house. Do you know who lives there…? Spend an evening in the company of Cedric Hatworthy Esq, late of this parish. But don’t touch his things, that’s what started all the trouble…

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