Guildford Opera Company is looking for a stage manager on the book to prompt lighting cues for our production of 'Lucia di Lamermor'. You would work with the stage director and lighting technician during production week to deliver lighting states for a live opera performance, and would be required to attend some rehearsals during November to familiarise yourself with the score and lighting cues.
The performance will take place in St Nicolas' Church, Bury Sreet, Guildford during w/b 30 November to 5 December. Technical and dress rehearsals will take place 1 December (evening) and 2 December (afternoon), and performances will be 3 - 5 December (curtain up 7 pm 3-4 December and 6pm 5 December).
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Join Hannah Smith, Executive Producer at The Wardrobe Ensemble, to understand the practical steps to starting and running a theatre company.
This session will cover the practical steps of registering your company, statuary obligations (including yearly company accounts). It will also share Hannah's reflections on the opportunities (such as funding streams) and challenges that running a company may bring.
This mid-career masterclass aims to demystify the process of setting up and running a theatre company; supporting freelancers to make an informed decision about whether establishing a company is the right next step in their career. The session will culminate in a Q&A.
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Join a collective of 16-21 year-old young performers and creatives where your ideas take centre stage.
You'll be mentored by Ashlee Elizabeth Lolo – writer, award-winning journalist and facilitator, whose work includes the BBC, Channel 4, National Theatre, Talawa Theatre Company and Birmingham Hippodrome.
Be rewarded for your commitment. Receive £30 per session in All4One vouchers, plus artist workshops, creative mentoring, skills development and great snacks.
Together you'll create bold new performance, produce live events, develop a collective manifesto, showcase your talent and use your voice to make an impact.
This isn't a drop-in. We're looking for young people who are ready to commit, collaborate and create something unforgettable.
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After the announcement of its closure, Forest Forge has allocated remaining funds to support local artists and organisations with grants of between £500 – £5,000.
In 2026 Forest Forge Theatre Company announced its closure after 45 years of making and touring theatre in the New Forest. As the journey comes to an end, the team are eager to support artists and cultural community organisations in the New Forest via some small commissions. We hope that by providing small pots of funding we can support sustainability and can seed fund new ideas.
We have ringfenced some of our remaining funds to support local artists and organisations with grants of between £500 – £5,000. We anticipate making between 5 – 10 Forge Ahead Commission grants.
Projects should deliver activity within one of our three areas of activity:
We are also especially excited to support projects and ideas that complement the Forest Forge ethos; those that are playful, heartfelt, joyful and irreverent.
Funds can be used for any number of costs including artist fees, travel, room hire, materials, marketing, training and can be used as match funding.
We welcome applications from:
Projects must:
Key dates:
Grants are made at the discretion of the trustees and decisions are final. Successful applicants will be required to report back to a Forest Forge Trustee after the closure of the company.
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Come and get a real behind‑the‑scenes look at what it’s like to work backstage on an Emma Rice Company production. You’ll hear directly from our award‑winning technical team and get a sense of the skills and teamwork that go into bringing a show to life. Whether you’re curious about show calling, mixing sound, setting props, or touring, this workshop is a great way to find out more.
We’re looking for people at the start of their career. You don’t need experience in mixing or show calling, but you do need some experience backstage. You’ll be over the age of 18, will have had some training or some work backstage (including youth, community, or amateur productions) and you’ll be looking to take your next step into the theatre industry. We want to hear from emerging Stage Managers, Wardrobe, Sound, Lighting and AV Technicians, with an interest in touring. Or maybe you've got experience in film, TV or music production and are interested in expanding your skillset.
Taster Details*:
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We encourage all participants to attend a performance of Tristan and Yseult, either before or after the tech taster, to get the most out of the day.
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Explore the work of Caryl Churchill with an in-depth exploration of Dominic Cooke’s new production of Cloud 9, Churchill’s daring satirical classic.
Featuring practical demonstrations and interactive talks, this student conference supports A-Level Drama students with their Live Theatre Review, and English students studying the text or Caryl Churchill’s body of work.
The conference will provide a detailed exploration of Cloud 9.
Students will:
Attendees will also receive a ticket to watch Cloud 9 that evening.
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Please note: this event is for schools and colleges, rather than individuals. Teachers will need to apply for tickets for their classes.
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Join our Artistic Director Nuna Sandy to learn about Affinity Groups at Company Three: spaces for young people to come together with artists who share an identity, and to creatively explore that together.
Nuna will share Company Three's journey and approach to this work, and some tips for setting up your own Affinity Groups and making work about identity, led and owned by the teenagers involved.
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Practitioners working with teenagers are meeting increasingly complex needs. The Youth Theatre Census 2024 highlighted young people's mental health as one of the sector's biggest challenges, and many youth theatres are now offering far more pastoral support than ever before.
Wellbeing and care is central to Company Three's practice - it's fundamental that young people can feel appreciated, safe and have fun in all our sessions.
This workshop shares practical tools to help adults centre wellbeing and care in creative projects.
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Led by our Artistic Director Nuna Sandy and our Associate Director Mariana Aritizábal Pardo, this hands-on course will show you how to create devised plays with teenagers about the topics, ideas and stories they care about the most.
Workshop Details:
This is a practical workshop with time to apply exercises and trial learning with the group. Everyone will leave with a toolkit of practical exercises, information and feedback, created in collaboration with the cohort to support in your co-creation journey.
This is a course for people who work with young people and want to provide space and co-create with young people in a wide range of disciplines. As practitioners it’s important we keep learning, growing and being curious. If you want a space to playfully discover or rediscover your practice when looking at co-creation, this is the course for you.
Course Dates:
Thu 15 and Fri 16 October 11:00-16:00
OR
Thu 25 and Fri 26 February 11:00-16:00
Course Cost:
We deliver courses because we think it's important to share practice and provide spaces for artists to grow and learn.
As a charity, we rely on the income from our training courses to sustain and grow our work with young people. This course has been carefully developed through years of practice and reflection at Company Three, drawing on the expertise and experience of our skilled facilitators. Every payment made for this course directly supports our work with young people.
The full price of this course is £250, but we offer a number of subsidised options to make it accessible to as many people as possible.
Options:
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This short online course offers guidance on building meaningful relationships with schools, working confidently with young people, and shaping programme offers that range from one-off workshops to longer projects and sustained partnerships.
Company Three have spent more than a decade delivering drama workshops in primary and secondary schools. This short course shares the practical lessons we've learned along the way. It offers guidance on building meaningful relationships with schools, working confidently with young people, and shaping programme offers that range from one-off workshops to longer projects and sustained partnerships.
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