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Graduate Showcase 2020
Coming soon is our West End showcase of work by graduating students from our Professional Acting Courses. They will be entering the industry after they graduate and are currently seeking representation. It will be held at 1.30pm Wednesday 16th December 2020 at The...
The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov Adapted and Directed by Mark Akrill with The Company. 'Oh my childhood...All the days of my innocence I slept in the nursery. I looked out of that window at the cherry orchard...and happiness woke with me every morning.' Regarded as a classic of 20th...
The Winter’s Tale
By William Shakespeare Direction by Mark Akrill “He thinks - nay, with all confidence he swears - that you have touched his queen forbiddenly.” King Leontes and Queen Hermione head the passionate and elegant Sicillian court. Leontes and King Polixenes...
We’re Moving Office!
The Bridge is moving office! As of Monday 28th October 2019 our office will be based at Cecil Sharp House in Camden - home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. We already hold classes there so we're excited to be spending even more time there! The new address...
Animal Show 2019
Animal Show - Friday 29th November 2019 Wander in and out as you please as our new site in Camden is turned into a zoo with our actors appearing as tigers, snakes, gorillas, lizards, bats, penguins and many more over a 3 hour period. You may feed the animals with...
Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
Mr Burns; A Post Electric Play By Anne Washburn Direction by Sean Turner “Maybe there is no moral. Maybe it’s just a bunch of stuff that happened.” - Lisa Simpson. From Homer’s Odyssey to Homer the Heretic, when civilisations are destroyed the...
Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell Adapted For The Stage By Ian Wooldridge Directed By Robert Nicholas ‘Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever’. George Orwell’s political satire is as...
Graduate Showcase 2019
Coming soon is our West End showcase of work by graduating students from our Professional Acting Courses. They will be entering the industry in July and are currently seeking representation. It will be held at 1.00pm Thursday 30th May 2019 at The Criterion Theatre,...
The Tempest
The Tempest ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on’ The Bridge’s new timeshifting production of The Tempest mixes the Elizabethan world with the 1950s painter’s studio that is Prospero’s desert island. Betrayed by family and peers and racing against time to complete...
Animal Show 2018
Animal Show - Friday 30th November 2018 Wander in and out as you please as our new site in Camden is turned into a zoo with our actors appearing as tigers, snakes, gorillas, lizards, bats, penguins and many more over a 3 hour period. You may feed the animals with...
Bridge News 2018!
It's an exciting time at The Bridge! Here's some of the things we'll be getting up to this academic year: This year is The Bridge’s 25th anniversary! To celebrate we’ll be putting on events and working with a number of industry figures to make it a special year....
Blue Stockings
Happiness is love, is it? But what if you had to choose? Between love and knowledge. Which would you choose? A doting husband or a life of intellectual fire… and you’re perfectly alone? 1896. Girton College, Cambridge, the first college in Britain to admit women. The...
Graduate Showcase 2018
Coming soon is our West End showcase of work by graduating students from our Professional Acting Courses. They will be entering the industry in July and are currently seeking representation. It will be held at 1.30pm Wednesday 23rd May 2018 at The Criterion Theatre,...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
'Are You Sure That We Are Awake It Seems To Me That Yet We Sleep, We Dream' When four young lovers enter a forest and encounter supernatural beings their lives are changed forever. The Bridge’s stunning new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a moving...
Songs For The Bridge
Over the past 25 years actors, singers, and musicians at The Bridge have created a wide range of original music for our productions. From the jazzy, sexy 40s night club of the song for Mariana in Measure To Measure to the highly charged folk rock protest song created...