On the 17th March 2020, the Triptych at the Old Red Lion was the final performance given on the London stage. Simon Stephens moved his Q&A forward by a night to leave us with a message of “Never despair. Never despair. Never despair.” And in the weeks, and many months …
Interview with Alexander Knott, New Artistic Director at Old Red Lion Theatre Towards the end of last year, it was announced that Alexander Knott would be taking over from London Pub Theatre Award Winner Katy Danbury in 2020. This is our first opportunity to find out more about his tenureship …
In Honour of ‘Mental Health Awareness Week’, we thought we would reflect on our Artistic Director’s personal experience with dealing with poor mental health and anxiety. Zöe’s blog was the basis for the commission that would, almost two years later, become HEDGEHOG. We open at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre …
We’ve been doing LOOP for so long, we’ve forgotten what it’s like putting a new piece of work out there. For ages it’s been, “we’ll have a couple of rehearsals there, we’ll just dust the show off and we’ll be ready to go” that we’ve forgotten how nerve rackingly terrifying …
So we’re halfway through. Apparently Fringe time is a thing, where your whole life while you’re up here just sweeps past in one long day, punctuated only by excessive drinking, watching a cornucopia of good (and sometimes hysterically bad) performances, and the odd couple of hours of sleep, before …
Blog by Alexander Knott (Co-Director, Resident playwright) Fringe is brilliant. “You know – maybe this is Theatre of Symbolism”, I said to the cast of LOOP in rehearsals one day last week. And, naturally, I was met with a bunch of blank stares, and James saying “What are you on …
We are bringing LOOP back and going on the road! We are delighted to announce our two venues for our tour. First up: Our first stop is Gerry’s Studio, the exciting new writing space at Theatre Royal Stratford East! GerrysTRSE 22nd – 24th March £12 /£10 Tickets: HERE Second up: …
We had a busy first week of intensive rehearsals, in the heat wave and all. All our actors worked incredibly hard, through the sweat and it resulted us in setting all of the physical movement in four days, which meant we could attempt a stumble through on the Friday. (Which …
It was a sunny Sunday morning and the Artistic Director thought it was a good idea to shoot a film… trailer. It was such good fun to make, if even we were battling the sun dipping behind the clouds every five minutes. I think we got some good shots and …
Today we introduced the past to the present and worked on some of the last scenes in the play. Emily Thornton and James Demaine here working on bonding as grandson and grandma with Co- director Alexander Knott dishing out the notes
