Published:
11:30 AM May 6, 2021
Sarah Holmes with the team at New Wolsey Theatre. The Ipswich theatre celebrates its 20th anniversary this year
- Credit: Mike Kwasniak
Spring is a time for renewal and rebirth. At the end of May, the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich will be opening its doors once again, hoping to put the deprivations of lockdown behind it, and looking forward to a future full of colour, innovation and entertainment.
Turn back the clock 20 years, and in 2001, the New Wolsey Theatre was doing the same thing. After two years of closure, following the collapse of the previous Wolsey Theatre company in 1999, the theatre was reborn as the New Wolsey and guided by two new, but experienced theatre-makers, the husband and wife team of Sarah Holmes and Peter Rowe, who had been enticed away from Theatr Clywd in north Wales, to run the Suffolk theatre.
Published:
11:30 AM May 5, 2021
Richard Mainwaring, Violet Patton-Ryder, Matt Joplin, Geri Allen , in rehearsal for a previous Eastern Angles Christmas show Stoat Hall written by Julian Harries and Pat Whymark. Last year s postponed show is being resurrected as a slice of summer silliness
- Credit: Mike Kwasniak
Eastern Angles is bringing some much needed laughter and what would have been seasonal cheer to its newly reopened and refurbished theatre in June – thanks to the inspired invention of writer/actor Julian Harries.
Julian, for many years the ‘architect’ of the Eastern Angles Christmas show, has adapted what would have been last year’s extravaganza into a summer sleuthing caper entitled ‘Sam Snape and the Curse of the Chillesford Chough.’
Published:
11:30 AM May 5, 2021
Richard Mainwaring, Violet Patton-Ryder, Matt Joplin, Geri Allen , in rehearsal for a previous Eastern Angles Christmas show Stoat Hall written by Julian Harries and Pat Whymark. Last year s postponed show is being resurrected as a slice of summer silliness
- Credit: Mike Kwasniak
Eastern Angles is bringing some much needed laughter and what would have been seasonal cheer to its newly reopened and refurbished theatre in June – thanks to the inspired invention of writer/actor Julian Harries.
Julian, for many years the ‘architect’ of the Eastern Angles Christmas show, has adapted what would have been last year’s extravaganza into a summer sleuthing caper entitled ‘Sam Snape and the Curse of the Chillesford Chough.’
Published:
7:00 PM February 24, 2021
The New Wolsey sporting its new signage as part of the redevelopment of its cafe/bar and foyer. The theatre is starting a recruitment campaign prior ro re-opening.
- Credit: New Wolsey Theatre
With theatres able to re-open with limited capacity audiences from mid-May East Anglia’s playhouses are looking to dust the seats, fire-up the follow-spots and welcome back audiences hungry for some live entertainment.
The New Wolsey Theatre, Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds and the Colchester Mercury have all got preparations underway but remain cautious as to when they will be able to welcome full-houses again.
Published:
7:00 PM February 24, 2021
The New Wolsey sporting its new signage as part of the redevelopment of its cafe/bar and foyer. The theatre is starting a recruitment campaign prior ro re-opening.
- Credit: New Wolsey Theatre
With theatres able to re-open with limited capacity audiences from mid-May East Anglia’s playhouses are looking to dust the seats, fire-up the follow-spots and welcome back audiences hungry for some live entertainment.
The New Wolsey Theatre, Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds and the Colchester Mercury have all got preparations underway but remain cautious as to when they will be able to welcome full-houses again.