Skylight analyses the aftermath of an adulterous relationship between two lovers after three years apart. In David Hare’s multi-award-winning play, questions of love and politics collide.
The play will be performed by Bedford’s Swan Theatre Company, who have a long-standing tradition of bringing great shows to Brussels.
Warehouse Studio Theatre, 1 & 2 November 2013 at 8pm
Tickets €15, available here: Swan: Skylight (1-2 Nov 2013).
“Miss Julie” is probably Sweden’s best-known play. This 90 minute play is set in a manor house, and the plot is built around the tensions that arise when the count’s daughter visits the servants in the kitchen on a midsummer’s evening. It will be performed at the Warehouse 10-14 June 2014.
Auditions will be held at rue Veronese 28 (close to Schuman) on:
We are looking for:
For more information, contact the director Anna Holmén,annaholmen@hotmail.com or 0473-870998.
The ECC is proud to present a pantomime for all the family – Jack and the Beanstalk directed by Conrad Toft. Fun and entertainment for all the family in this production written especially for the Brussels audience.
The cast includes Cath Howdle in her Brussels debut as Jack, Henri Colens (Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Diana of Dobsons) as Simple Simon, Charif Wehbe (The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest) as Widow Twanky, Hugo de Chassiron (The Glass Menagerie, The Merchant of Venice) as Baron Hardup and many, many more.
Tickets are €18 for adults and €14 for children.
18 to 22 March 2014
Palais des Beaux Arts, Rue Ravenstein, 1000 Bruxelles
Info and tickets: 02 507 8200 / www.bozar.be
Joanna Patrick will be directing A Lady of Letters and is looking for a woman capable of playing someone middle-aged
Jonathan Stockwell will be directing Soldiering On, and is looking for a woman to play a character aged 55 or above
Mark Prescott will be directing Her Big Chance and is looking for a woman capable of playing a character aged 25 to 40
The ECC is proud to present:
“Miss Julie” by August Strindberg
Miss Julie plays with fire and pays the price in this landmark of European theatre
Performances: 10‐14 June, 8 pm, 14 June, 3 pm at the Warehouse Studio Theatre
Book tickets here (€15 each).
The ECC will be holding auditions for its pantomime ‘Aladdin‘ in June. The show will run from 9-11 January 2015 at the Auderghem Cultural Centre in Brussels. It will be performed in English.
Pantomime is a comedic genre that tells traditional folk tales through farce and musical theatre. We are looking for actors of all ages with a sense of fun, who enjoy high-energy theatre and cross-dressing. Whilst not essential, we will be interested in singing ability. The principal parts are:
If you think you could bring these and other characters to life, please come and audition on:
at the Warehouse, rue Waelhem 73, 1030 Brussels
Please contact Henri Colens on 0479 671 766 for any further information or if you are interested in auditioning but cannot attend on any of the abovementioned dates.
Three Monologues by Alan Bennett 23-27 September 2014: The Warehouse Studio Theatre, Rue Waelhem 69a, 1030 Brussels Tickets – €15.
Lady of Letters (Sara Hammerton, Directed by Joanna Patrick)
Soldiering On (Rachel Cuff, Directed by Jonathan Stockwell)
Her Big Chance (Ailsa Higgins, Directed by Mark Prescott)
Following last year’s successful production of Jack & The Beanstalk, the ECC present their latest pantomime: Aladdin. This well-loved story will be told with energy, music and dance and promises to be fun for all the family.
Aladdin lives with his mum, Widow Twankey, who runs a laundry in Old Peking in the shadow of the Imperial Palace. Aladdin dreams of a better life when one day he meets the Emperor’s beautiful daughter, Princess Jasmine. The boy has to grow up fast when a mysterious uncle turns up asking for his help in obtaining a lamp from a magical cave. This episode sets off an exciting and hilarious chain of events that bring Aladdin love and riches beyond his wildest dreams.
Combining humour, songs and special effects, the show will delight young and old. It will feature the traditional pantomime classics, such as ‘he’s behind you!’ and ‘oh no it isn’t!’ and poke gentle fun at expat life.
The show runs from 9-11 January 2015 at the Auderghem Cultural Centre, Boulevard du Souverain 183, 1160 Brussels. Tickets (€16/€12) are available here.
ECC Brussels will be presenting War Brides by Marion Craig Wentworth at FEATS 2015 in Hamburg (22-25 May 2015). The show will also be performed earlier in May in Brussels.
There are seven characters (four women, three men) in the show:
The script (copyright-free) is available from http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14602. If you are interested in auditioning, please contact the director, Conrad Toft, to arrange an audition time. Auditions will take place on 13 & 15 January 2015 at 20:00 and 18 January 2015 at 11:00. If you are unable to make those audition times, we may be able to find alternatives.
Warehouse Studio Theatre.
Directed by Janet Middleton.
Tickets available from http://www.thelittleboxoffice.com/ecc
Warehouse Studio Theatre
Europe is at war. The young women of a small rural village in an unnamed country are being strongly encouraged to become “war brides” – to marry the young men going into battle and produce the next generation of soldiers for the Empire. But what happens when some of them refuse?
Marion Craig Wentworth’s play was a runaway success in America in 1915 and made into a 1916 film before being banned when the USA joined World War I.
The play is directed by Conrad Toft and stars Peyton Cimino, Izzy Poston, Joanna Patrick, Richard Daly, Amanda E. Ekdahl, Gareth Lewis & Andy Blumenthal.
Tickets (€8) can be booked at http://thelittleboxoffice.com/ecc for performances at 8pm on 14 & 16 May 2015, and 8:30pm on 19 May.
ECC Brussels will also be taking this one-act play to the FEATS (Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Society) in Hamburg on 23 May 2015.
The ECC is auditioning for its January 2016 Pantomime, Dick Whittington and his Magical Cat, which will be taking place at the Auderghem Cultural Centre from 8-10 January 2016.
Auditions will be held at The Warehouse Studio Theatre, Rue Waelhem 69a, 1030 Schaerbeek on:
There are speaking and chorus parts for both adults and children, so come along and enjoy the fun. You don’t need to prepare anything in advance for the auditions.
For further information email conradtoft@gmail.com.
by Nicholas Wright
Warehouse Studio Theatre, 22 – 26 September at 20:00
Melanie Klein has just lost her son in what appears to be a climbing accident. His death brings the long-standing conflict with her daughter Melitta to a sharp climax. Professional rivalries mix with visceral family resentments – and taboo-breaking psychoanalytic theories. Caught (or carefully positioned) between the warring mother-daughter pair is Paula – Melitta’s friend and Mrs Klein’s would-be protégée.
Tickets (€15) can be booked at http://www.thelittleboxoffice.com/ecc
ECC AGM
21 October 2015, 8pm
The Bar Room, Rue Waelhem 73, 1030 Brussels
The AGM will be followed by a play reading session of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound – this promises to be a lot of fun! All are welcome to participate, or simply enjoy listening to others read this very funny play.
The committee is always keen to welcome new members, if you feel you would like to be more involved in the running of the club please let one of the committee members know, email our Chair Lyn at chair@ecc.theatreinbrussels.com or just turn up on the night!
To register your intention to come to the AGM, or to ensure your regrets are recorded, please sign up via our Doodle Poll: http://doodle.com/poll/gwxca4vednepdbuu#table
PLEASE NOTE: We are required by law to circulate the minutes of the previous AGM. To facilitate this we have updated the September 2015 Ecco, and you will now find the minutes of the October 2014 AGM and a Nomination Form for officers and members of the ECC Committee for 2015, attached to ECCO here: http://ecc.theatreinbrussels.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-September.pdf. If you wish they can be printed off from this link.
All at: Rue des Atrebates 27, 1040 Brussels
Very close to Montgomery Metro – Contact Janet for more details
Janet: 0495 94 2991 or middletonjanetk@gmail.com
Hugh: 0494 33 7025 or hughjamesdow@gmail.com
CREW
We are also hoping to encourage new back stage crew – so if you’ve had a secret hankering to become involved without having to perform on stage, now is your chance to let us know! We will find you someone to help you along the way, so please don’t think you’ll just get thrown in and left to flounder. To register your interest, please contact Janet – or just come along to the AGM.
Following on from the successful productions of Jack & the Beanstalk in December 2013 and Aladdin in January 2015, the ECC is proud to present a brand new panto –Dick Whittington and His Magical Cat! This well-loved British tale is (very loosely!) based on the legends surrounding Richard Whittington (Lord Mayor of London from 1354-1423) and is told with humour and energy and promises to be great fun for all the family.
Dick Whittington leaves a country village with his cat, Tommy, to make his fortune in London, where the streets are paved with gold. When he arrives he finds, instead streets overrun by rats.
This launches Dick on an adventure that takes him from London to Brussels and beyond. Along the way, he meets the girl of his dreams, Alice, as well as Alderman Fitzgerald, Sarah the Cook, King Rat and many, many others, including you!
Bursting with humour, songs and magic, this show will delight young and old. Oh, yes it will!
Performances are on Friday 8 January (20:00), and Saturday and Sunday 9-10 January (13:30, 17:00), at the Auderghem Cultural Centre, Boulevard du Souverain 183, 1160 Brussels.
Tickets (€16 for adults, €12 for children) are available fromhttp://thelittleboxoffice.com/ec
FEATS 2016 will run 6-9 May 2016 in Brussels. To learn more about our plans for 2016, and how you can be a part of this exciting event, please come and join us for drinks and nibbles on Friday 6 February at 8pm. RSVP: ecco@ecc.theatreinbrussels.com to find out more (including the address!).
If you cannot join us on the 15th, please email Janet at the above address to register your interest in being involved.
It would be great to get some of you involved in next year’s FEATS festival – a great weekend of theatre! I hope to see you there on Friday.
The ECC presents a double bill of one-act shows:
Dinner for One
written by Laurie Smith
directed by Hugh Dow
&
The Real Inspector Hound
written by Tom Stoppard
directed by Janet Middleton
The performances will take place at The Warehouse Studio Theatre, Rue Waelhem 69a, 1030 Brussels from 8-12 March 2016 at 8pm.
Tickets €15, available from http://thelittleboxoffice.com/ECC
Anna Holmén will be directing the ECC’s production of Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector in November in The Studio Theatre. This will be a two-week production. Parts available for all ages, genders, accents and nationalities.
Auditions will be held in the Bar Room of
The Warehouse, Rue Waelhem 69a, 1030 Schaerbeek
on the following dates:
Sunday 3 April – 11.00-14.00
Tuesday 5 April – 19.30-21.3
Thursday 7 April – 19.30-21.30
Sunday 10 April – 14.00-17.00
For further information please do not hesitate to get in touch with Anna: annaholmen@hotmail.com or 0473 870998 or Facebook.
Please note: the characters the Postmaster, the director of hospitals/charities and Bobchinsky will be female.
Feats 2016 will take place at the Woluwe-Saint-Pierre Cultural Centre, 93 Avenue Charles Thielemans, 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre.
Twelve English language theatre troupes from several European countries will be competing for the awards between 5 and 8 May 2016.
For more detailed information, see the special FEATS 2016 site.
We are delighted that once again this winter there will be another ECC Panto.
Cinderella
11-15 January 2017
Auditions will be held 2-6pm Sunday 5 and Saturday 18 June at The Warehouse Studio Theatre (Rue Waelhem 69a, 1030 Brussels).
All are very welcome to come along, and should prepare a song to sing too (please don’t be put off by this – non singers are welcome as well, but if you can only even vaguely attain a tune you’ll be in the chorus!)
If you are unable to make either of these dates please contact Cath at cath.howdle@gmail.com
Many thanks to everyone has bought a ticket for The Government Inspector, which is now totally sold out!
Tickets are no longer available via our booking system, but you might be able to find or advertise unwanted tickets on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/
Alternatively, you could try turning up on the night as very often we have unfilled seats when people fail to turn up. However, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to find you a seat.
The ECC will be staging two one-acts plays from 16-20 May at the Warehouse Studio Theatre, Rue Waelhem, 1030 Brussels. Tickets are available from http://thelittleboxoffice.com/ecc.
A Woman of No Importance (Oscar Wilde) – Directed by Conrad Toft
The ECC will be staging an abridged version of Oscar Wilde’s satire A Woman of No Importance here in Brussels from 16-20 May and at FEATS Frankfurt for one performance between 2 and 5 June. With his usual wit, Wilde takes us on an epic romp of Victorian high society exposing scandals and delivering his fine repartee at every opportunity.
The Impotence of Being Frank (Joe Wilde) – Directed by Hugh Dow
The Impotence of Being Frank is a short farce intended as a tribute to Oscar Wilde and Joe Orton, in which a tenacious detective manically – and ultimately successfully – tracks down the perpetrator of a crime that wasn’t committed. It is the first play by a highly renowned Brussels based biographer and academic, writing under the pseudonym of Joe Wilde. The play, originally written for the radio has never been performed before.
Life Reflected will be an evening of poetry readings, devised and staged by Malinda Coleman. The poems chosen will revolve around big life themes, and will include both old favourites and new discoveries.
Malinda would ideally like six readers: three couples of three age-groups: young (20s-30s) adults, middle-aged, and the pre-old … Everyone auditioning is invited to bring along a favourite shortish poem, but this is not obligatory.
Performances within the period November 5 -18 2017 (possibly not the full 5 performances per week).
For further information about this project, you can e-mail Malinda at malinda_coleman@hotmail.com
For Those who Know Hugh Dow – LET’S HAVE A PARTY
Hugh Dow is holding hour-long poetry and music evenings on the 15th and 16th September.
Some of Brussel’s finest actors will be reading poems which have sustained and delighted him over 65 years. The music will be judiciously added, as tonic to gin, for dilution.
To justify the somewhat extravagant title there will be bubbly and small eats after.
To book just call 0475 65 68 51. There will be no admission charge
Chorus auditions are coming! They will be held from 11-12:30 pm on Sunday, 24 September at the Warehouse Studio Theatre (Rue Waelhem 69a, 1030 Brussels) in the bar room.
If you would like to come along, you can help us by filling in this audition form online
Hope to see lots of you at the auditions!
If you are unable to attend the auditions, but would like to be considered, please contact us at conradtoft@gmail.com.
The ECC’s first production for the 2017-2018 season will be something a little different.
LIFE REFLECTED is an evening of poetry staged and directed by Malinda Coleman
9-11 and 16-18 November 2017 at 8pm
The Warehouse Studio Theatre, Rue Waelhem 69, 1030 Schaerbeek
Tickets: €15 from https://thelittleboxoffice.com/ecc
Malinda Coleman writes: Poetry offers us the pleasure of language played and experimented with, but also can show us things about our experiences that make us feel and understand them differently, more intensely. Inspired by the Shakespearean “seven ages of man”, this collection traces our lives from the beginning to the beginning of the end … encompassing childhood, romance and coupling, parenthood, the challenges of our workaday lives, and the experiences that come along later in life. The poems I have chosen are from both old familiar authors and many unknown contemporary poets.
It sounds serious! But expect to be surprised …I have been lucky to find an exciting group of readers, relative newcomers Agathe Osinski and James Hogan, combined with favourite familiars: Janet Middleton, Liz Ross, David Steen and Mark Prescott. First rehearsals designed to whittle down the long list of poems I compiled have already shown us something of the delight and pleasure this evening will provide.
ECC’s 2018 Panto, Snow White, will be on at Auderghem Cultural Centre from 19-21 January 2018.
Performances:
Come and join the fun for all the family!
Tickets are on sale at thelittleboxoffice.com/ecc (adults: €16, children: €12)