6th, 7th and 8th October 2009
TheTheatre, Church Street, Leatherhead, Surrey KT22 8DN.
23rd and 24th October 2009
The Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre, Manor Road, Walton on Thames, Surrey KT12 2PF
27th October 2009
Whitehaven Civic Centre, Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria CA28 7SH
http://www.northcountryleisure.org.uk/copeland/page/187
29th October 2009
The Maltings Theatre & Arts Centre, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland TD15 1AJ
3rd- 7th November 2009
The Wimbledon Studio Theatre, New Wimbledon Studio, The New Wimbledon Theatre, The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1QG
http://www.ambassadortickets.com/information.aspx?VId=681&cat=aboutus
10th November 2009
The Hawth Theatre & Conference Complex, Hawth Av, Crawley, RH10 6YZ
13th November 2009
The Firestation, The Old Court House, St Leonards Rd, Windsor, SL4
28th November 2009
The Mart Theatre, CCM Auctions, Gargrave Road, Skipton BD23 1UD
please click here to read further deatils of our exciting new production "Joshua" which will be touring Theatres and Arts Centres in the autumn.
We held a fund raising event on the 30th of May at the Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre in Walton on Thames, in order to help raise funds to support this tour. The event was a fantastic success and raised over £3000 for the tour. We are so grateful to everyone who contributed and supportd us!
After months of preparation and detailed planning the evening ran so smoothly. Everything worked brilliantly. The Riverhouse looked stunning, the food, all catered by Susan Segal was delicious and looked so pretty, the enormous drawing of a pinned butterfly commissioned by us for the play looked quite breathtaking in the corner of the Barn. Every little detail added to the atmosphere of the evening, which was laced with excitement and felt so wonderfully supportive. All the guests had a really wonderful evening – and why shouldn’t they? The auction items and raffle prizes were superb – thanks to all the friends and colleagues who donated themselves and their services. The music got everyone dancing and the cabaret got everyone laughing. Our auctioneer did a back flip on stage for £20 and we performed a scene from Joshua to give everyone a taster and to encourage them to the rehearsed reading to be held a few weeks later. What really touched me about the event was the support I received from my friends and community. So many people turned up on the afternoon of the event to help put out tables, set up the band, blow up balloons, lay tables and prepare the auction tables. It was a wonderful feeling and I shall never forget the generosity shown. I am particularly grateful to Susan at The Riverhouse, who has been my mentor since the very beginning of Hotbuckle and who let us use the barn for free that night. Priceless.
Money from Surrey County council paid for the beautiful butterfly, drawn by Internationally acclaimed artist Julian Farrar, which formed and will form a major part of the set for the rehearsed reading and for the tour. It also paid the actors for the rehearsed reading ……
Hotbuckle Productions Community Interest Company is a Surrey based, professional theatre company created by actors Adrian Preater and Gemma Aston. Hotbuckle's purpose is to bring excellent theatrical productions to the general public at an affordable price. Our company value is to "do as you would be done by". In other words, as employers we only ever ask things of our employees that we would be happy to have asked of us. As a company we treat our clients as we would wish to be treated ourselves.
From our experience as jobbing actors and having worked for many companies ourselves, we have concerns that some theatre companies produce some very mediocre and expensive productions and take advantage of both their actors and their clients, once they find themselves in a position to do so. Our mission is never to do this but instead produce excellent theatre that impresses all concerned and that actors are proud to perform. We practise a policy of "equal opportunities" employment.
