You’ve got three more chances to catch Titus Andronicus at Greenwich Theatre. Come tonight for our post show Q&A talk, or tomorrow for the afternoon matinee, or tomorrow eve for an electric last night! And if you’re an actress interested in working with the company, you’ve now got an extra reason to see the show… [...]
With Titus Andronicus up-and-running in Greenwich (after a wonderful opening last night), it’s time for us to announce our summer plans… and our new show! We’re very excited to reveal that Titus Andronicus will be returning to the Edinburgh Fringe this year after a UK tour (full dates below). After taking the Fringe by storm [...]
Tonight, over two years after its inception, and loads of touring, our triple-award-winning paint-soaked unruly all-female production of Titus Andronicus finally descends on London! The show is in good shape: the new cast are phenomenal, the new set is epic, and we’ve spent months reimagining the show from the ground up. The fights are [...]
Call all theatre makers! We’re going to be looking for more people to join our team for the Summer Tour. Detailed job descriptions to follow soon, but if you’re interested in the below, please do drop us an email. We’ll be taking Titus Andronicus and a not-yet-announced-but-very-exciting second show on tour, partly in [...]
Here at Smooth Faced Gentlemen we love teachers. Our school teachers were the first people who introduced us to Shakespeare. The Hamlets, the Macbeths and all the syllabus-based Shakespeare, got us started, and it was the knowledge and attention of our teachers that inspired us to work. So, that’s why we’re running a little [...]
Just a quick post to wish good luck Anonymous Is A Woman Theatre Company and the four of our members who just set out on tour with them! You can catch Leila Sykes, Henri Merriam, Maddie Gould and Stella Taylor in F.A.N.Y., a new play (written by Leila) about the first women in the ambulance […]
Throughout the process of TITUS ANDRONICUS we’ll be bringing you a series of guest blogs from our lovely cast and company, old and new. Today, we hear from actor Ariane Barnes, about the first workshop with our joint fight & movement directors. You can catch Ariane playing the title role in TITUS ANDRONICUS, our all-female production [...]
The time has come to announce the line-up for our revival of Titus Andronicus at Greenwich Theatre in April! We had almost 1,500 applications by the end. We auditioned 50 extraordinary actors and somehow managed to whittle it down to the lovely ladies you see above and below. It’s been a humbling experience casting this (and […]
So, we’ve almost cast our new production of Titus Andronicus, and it’s time to finish building the rest of the team. We already have a cracking Technical Designer, a silky-haired Sound Designer, our lovely Composer, two top-notch Dramaturgs, and a very exciting Fight Director, but there are a few more people we’d like to [...]