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The RSCAW was the brainchild of Birmingham sports journalist and closet thespian Roger Clarke aided by Tom Roberts, producer of the excellent Lichfield Garrick Rep (click for details of the Garrick). The idea is to have a community theatre in the pub and with help and encouragement from Keith Ward, the manager of The Station in Station Street, Sutton Coldfield, we launched The Station Pub Theatre in the summer of 2008. The theatre will put on professional, amateur and pro-am productions as well as open mic nights and workshops. We hope to encourage local writers and actors as well as new works. We are also looking at producing our own radio plays for local radio and hospital radio. PROGRAMME FOR 2010 Our latest production saw Vesey Players, who took a rest from their traditional, annual pantomime last year, performing two one act plays, Last Tango in Little Aston and The Worst Day of My Life. Meanwhile our next production is a new play by David Hendon touring the Midlands, From Me to 3792, starring Caroline Nash. It is on Wednesday and Thursday November 3 and 4 at 8pm. More shortly. Tickets are £7 or £6 bought (they are on sale in the pub) or ordered in advance.. Staffordshire's Opus Theatre Company are looking to bring a new production to The Station this season - the company's Confessions of Honour, written by Opus founder Gerry Hinks made it to the West End and dates are currently being arranged. Meanwhile, behind the arras if you are interested, I am involved in a new venture, a theatrical website, www.behindthearras.com which will be covering Midland theatres, both amateur and professional as well as pubs and clubs. ALSO Lined up in talks we still have Two, Jim Cartwright's play set in a pub with 14 characters and a cast of two. Also in the pipeline is Satin 'n' Steel which is a tale of dreams and hopes in clubland and we are hoping to stage Shirley Valentine if we can find a mutual date with our star. We are currently negotiating performance rights for these productions. Waitress for Godot by one of our own members Paul Bamborough, is also in the pipeline as is Frozen Heart next summer which was at the Lichfield Garrick this month. It is a musical tribute to Irene Nemirovsky who wrote Suite Francaise and the people who lived in occupied Europe in the Second World War.
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