PUB crowds are notoriously tough – but Camden’s latest acting troupe appears determined to make life harder for themselves.
Multistory, formerly Melting Pot, invites the audience to shout out plot suggestions that the actors then follow.
Playing the improvisation game are a dozen professionally trained and amateur actors. The shows, held fortnightly in the Camden Arms in Randolph Street, Camden Town, are on the first and third Thursday of every month from 8pm.
• THE wonderfully restored St Stephen’s Church in Rosslyn Hill hosts a special one-off performance of the Holocaust drama And Then They Came For Me later this month.
Eva Schloss, the step-sister of Anne Frank, will attend in person and answer questions from the audience after the show. The play, supported by the Hampstead and Kilburn Conservatives, will also go out on the streets ahead of the May 19 show.
• MULTIPLE congratulations to the winners of the New Journal’s two recent theatre competitions.
Mary Geraghty, Mary Osinowo, Joyce Rackham and Stephan De Vos will all be dancing the night away with a friend at Havana Rakatan, Sadler’s Wells’ Cuban sensation on at the Peacock Theatre.
Meanwhile, five lucky entrants – Dee Linnell, H Attarchi, M Howard, E Connolly and JE Creswick – have each won a pair of tickets to the Sondheim classic,
A Little Night Music.
• THE Tower Theatre Company are going from strength to strength.
Building work on their new theatre revealed a very old theatre – the oldest in England, no less – buried on the same site, which historians had long considered lost completely. From next Tuesday (May 12) they will stage a production of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Hamlet, at the Theatro Technis in Mornington Crescent, ahead of taking it to Paris for an open air run in the Bois de Boulogne. Box office: 020 7353 1700. Until May 23.