There are just a few tickets left for Remarkable Things, which is simultaneously our first ever dance theatre project and our first ever intergenerational project. 

Over the last 9 weeks, members of our young companies aged between 10 and 87 have been working with Senior Citizens on a beautiful, delicate new movement-led piece inspired by the tiny little events that have an enormous impact on who we are.

There are a few tickets left for the show, but they have been claimed very fast.  If you wanted a ticket but haven't been able to get one, please contact us.

Photos from the project are now online - see them here.

For full job descriptions and application details please click here

See the Remarkable Things blog.

We've uploaded some photos  from our most recent Remarkable Things rehearsal, in which our young and not-so-young participants explored balance, weight and lifting. 

Click here to see the gallery.

James will bring a huge range of local expertise to the Board having served on the Council since 1994.  He was Deputy Leader from 2000-2006 and Leader from 2006-9.

The AGM also passed our accounts and budget, received a presentation from our Community Theatre Trainees about our activities in the last year and approved the formation of a new Creative Circle to advise on artistic policy.

The minutes from the meeting will be available to download from Friday.

Contact us for more information.

Work in Progress members Hayley Thomas and Daniel O'Keefe made their fringe theatre debuts on Monday night, performing Adam Barnard's Sixteen at the Old Red Lion as part of the first ever Bare Bones Night.

Their performances - each with a monologue depicting a sixteen year old going through turbulent changes in their lives - won over a large audience, with many of the professional actors and theatre makers involved in the night fulsome in their praise for two of our boldest performers.

The review website remotegoat.co.uk, seem to have enjoyed it too:

Top mention has to go to 'Sixteen', written by Adam Barnard and directed by Ned Glasier. I've seen a number of plays that address the 'youth of today' - their anger and malaise, their relationship with technology, adults and drugs - but none which packs a punch like 'Sixteen'. Jodie and Joe, both 16, take turns on stage; she is preparing for an internet blind date with 'a real man' - compulsively processing all her thoughts and fears through Facebook. That moment of sexual awakening, looming adulthood - and painful naïvete - are captured perfectly by (18 year-old) Hayley Thomas. Daniel O'Keefe (also 18) as a white boy from a screwed-up home trying to make good in a last chance special school for disruptive pupils is, if possible, even more compelling. In one long monologue that never loses pace he moves through all the moods of a life on the brink as his sixteenth birthday plays out; O'Keefe's delivery, emotion and physical presence combined to produce something very special. Both actors and director Ned Glasier, of Islington Community Theatre, got the best out of some very astute writing from Barnard. Exciting stuff indeed.

(read the full review)

The writer, Adam Barnard, was delighted with the performances.  "I loved the production of Sixteen. To say that Dan and Hayley "got it" would be an understatement: they took my script, invested themselves in it, and came back with so much more. Their performances were alive, intelligent, honest, real. They worked with true integrity, and paid close attention to both the rhythm of the language and the feelings of the characters. They were just great. I sat in the audience grinning from ear to ear."

There will be a video of the play online soon.  In the meantime, do check out photos of the show in the production gallery.

Bare Bones Nights has been set up by Rebecca Adamson to give emerging writers, directors and actors the opportunity to create new work on a London stage.  It is primarily a showcase of their work at a London venue with a great reputation and a central location.

Islington Community Theatre are a regular partner in the events and over the next few months we hope to give a number of our Work in Progress members a chance to perform alongside professional actors in some of London's most important fringe venues.

Hayley and Daniel will be performing with over 20 other actors on Monday night, with plays by Tom Jensen, Michael O'Brien, Greg Glover and Rosalind Wylie.  Mel Hilyard, who helped us create One Year On in October last year is directing I See Myself as a Bit of an Indiana Jones Figure by Kieran Lynn as part of the night.

Unfortunately, the small size of the Red Lion means that tickets for the event have been extremely restricted and it is now sold out.  We will, however, post some photos and video from the event online soon.

For more information about Bare Bones, visit the Bare Bones website.

The project has been commissioned by Islington Council as part of the opening celebrations for Islington Assembly Hall - a beautiful 500 capacity venue right beside the town hall, re-opening after 30 years of neglect after an extensive period of refurbishment.

To help celebrate, we're creating our first ever integenerational piece of work, bringing a wonderful company of people aged anywhere between 10 and 87 together with the choreographer Ben Ash and ICT's Artistic Director Ned Glasier.  The piece will be led by dance and movement and is an exploration of the tiny things that happen in our lives that make us who we are.

The first full rehearsal took place on Saturday and we made some wonderful discoveries.  More news to follow as the project develops.

Islington Youth Theatre came back with a vengeance, with a whole weekend of workshops exploring themes for our forthcoming production, tentatively titled The Pact (June 28 - July 4, Pleasance Theatre).  Lots more information coming soon.

Before that, we've got another exciting production taking place - as part of the opening for the Islington Assembly Hall, an incredible 500 capacity venue recently refurbished by Islington Council.  Our piece, Remarkable Things, will be created and performed by over 30 people aged anywhere between 10 and 88.  It's our first intergenerational project and we're really excited about it.

We're also running our normal array of projects - with two new Oracle Projects planned for this term, including a major new production centred around the Highbury Oracle.  Work in Progress are back for a term of specialist 'taster' sessions from professional artists across the theatrical spectrum.

And a verry big welcome to Jo Gibson, who has joined us as our new Administrator.  Thanks to a generous one-off grant from Islington Council we've been able to bring in Jo two days a week and tie Ned Glasier, the Artistic Director, to a permanent contract. 

Lots more news coming soon - Happy New Year!