THE GRETCHEN QUESTION at The Shipwright, Deptford
The Gretchen Question couldn’t have a more serious theme – the catastrophe facing our planet due to manmade climate change. But rather...
THE ALBANY
Miles Hedley
- Sep 8
- 3 min
TEMPEST HEADLINES AUTUMN SEASON at The Albany
The Albany's autumn programme this year focuses on personal responsibility, activism, forgotten histories and identity issues. Plus, of...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 27
- 3 min
CLIMATE HOME FESTIVAL presented by The Albany
While politicians, big business and The Market prevaricate endlessly about how to ease global warming but still make money, young people...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 27
- 2 min
SUN+SEA at The Albany
Sun & Sea, a multiple award-winning opera that is being given its UK premiere by The Albany, is like nothing else you’ll ever see, an...
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Miles Hedley
- May 22
- 2 min
SUN & SEA at The Albany
In a summer of extraordinary events in south-east London, the Albany is offering its own unique contribution by hosting the British...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 14
- 3 min
SUMMER PROGRAMME at Trinity Laban
An amazing array of public performances is on offer in this year’s Trinity Laban summer programme - legendary names in dance, beloved...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 19
- 1 min
YOU HEARD ME at The Albany
On a Tuesday afternoon in February 2019 Luca Rutherford went for a run before she was due to do a show in Hull. It was part of her...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 18
- 3 min
DEPTFORD DELIGHTS at The Albany
Female voices, some of the best cutting edge music and a wide range of family shows are at the heart of The Albany’s new programme which,...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
THE 12 DAYS (AND NIGHTS) OF CHRISTMAS in and around Greenwich
1 The Queen Of Hearts, Greenwich Theatre till 2 January. Legendary dame Andrew Pollard is back live with his own take on a traditional...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
DONUTS at The Albany
As we walked into the auditorium at the Albany to see the new dance work Donuts, three young women on stage were scrunched up together on...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 21, 2021
- 2 min
THE DIGITAL HOME via The Albany
Theatre matters. The world may be reeling under an apparently unceasing rain of disasters and setbacks – global warming, the Covid...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 8, 2021
- 2 min
SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER at the Albany
In the wake of lockdown, the Albany’s autumn season is using music, theatre, poetry, cabaret, comedy and family fun to celebrate the...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 9, 2021
- 2 min
SUMMER IN THE GARDEN at the Albany
The Albany is set to lift our lockdown blues with a season of outdoor events catering for all tastes and ages called Summer In The...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
VISIONS AS OUR EXILE The Albany online
Open Source Collaborations, a pioneering lockdown project launched by The Albany and Foreign Body Productions to help emerging artists...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 2, 2020
- 2 min
CHRISTMAS FAMILY FUN in Greenwich, Deptford and online
The entertainment sector is in crisis – but the dedicated armies of artists whose work so enriches our lives are determined to carry on...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 11, 2020
- 1 min
CHARLES HAYWARD VERSUS HARMERGEDDON at The Albany
South-east London is a crucible of cultural excellence and one of its most shimmering ingredients is the phenomenon that is Charles...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 25, 2020
- 2 min
ALBANY AUTUMN SEASON
After six months of almost total lockdown, the Albany is not only reopening but is planning an ambitious three-month autumn season of...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 11, 2020
- 2 min
THE HOUSE THAT SLIPPED at The Albany and live on Zoom
There were a great many pleasures to be had in The House That Slipped, a witty and wise lockdown show devised, written and performed by...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 7, 2020
- 2 min
ARRAY FESTIVAL moved online from the Albany
Covid-19 scuppered any hope that Array, a two-night festival of immersive ambisonic sound and colour, would be staged at the Albany....
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 16, 2019
- 2 min
HOCUS POCUS at the Albany
Forty-something years ago, the tagline for the blockbuster Christopher Reeve movie Superman was You’ll Believe A Man Can Fly because the...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 7, 2019
- 2 min
AGE AGAINST THE MACHINE at the Albany, Laban and across Lewisham
Age Against The Machine, an epic three-week festival across Lewisham promoting creative ageing, reached its triumphant climax on Sunday...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
NONCLASSICAL at the Albany
Pure sound, like pure colour in a painting, can be transcendent, revealing depths of consciousness undreamt of in daily life. I had that...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 26, 2019
- 2 min
ROOTS, RIOTS, REMEMBRANCE at the Albany
The three Rs usually refers to reading, riting and rithmatic. But if you’re a Trinity Laban student it can also mean Roots, Riots,...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 24, 2019
- 1 min
SURGE at the Albany
Close to the Albany stands a house where, in 1981, a fire killed 13 black youngsters and injured many more during a 16th birthday party....
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 12, 2019
- 1 min
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT at The Albany
Personal tragedy, particularly one involving the death of a child, is all-consuming. So how do we cope with having to watch other...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 30, 2019
- 1 min
A THEATRE TRIP FOR EVERY CHILD at The Albany
The Albany is giving another 2,000 free tickets to local schoolkids as part of a pioneering scheme – whose patrons are Oscar nominees...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 29, 2019
- 2 min
LIKKLE RUM WITH GRANDMA at The Albany
It’s a sad fact that we don’t tell loved ones often enough just how much we love them. It’s another sad fact that that failure can evolve...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 2, 2019
- 1 min
FLIGHT PATHS at The Albany
Multimedia theatre productions run the risk of letting technology overpower emotion. There was no danger of that, though, when Flight...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 26, 2019
- 2 min
STEAM DOWN at The Albany
Steam Down Collective have already achieved legendary status in south-east London with their barnstorming residency at Deptford nightspot...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 4, 2018
- 1 min
PINOCCHIO at The Albany
It’s tough to find new ways of presenting a fairytale as well-known and well-loved as Pinocchio without spoiling its inherent charm but...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 31, 2018
- 2 min
STEVE HOWE at The Albany
Any talk of living guitar heroes almost inevitably zooms in on Messrs Clapton, Beck and Page. But there are others who are just as...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 11, 2018
- 2 min
DENNIS OF PENGE at The Albany
Euripides may have been one of the inventors of playwriting nearly two and half millennia ago but his works are still relevant, as Dennis...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 25, 2018
- 2 min
CIRCULATE FESTIVAL at The Albany
Some of the most innovative public performance art I’ve ever seen graced Giffin Square, Deptford, over thee weekends in August. Four...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 20, 2018
- 2 min
DIDO & AENEAS at The Albany
Blackheath Halls’ annual opera always has the community at its heart, with local residents and schoolkids performing alongside...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 22, 2018
- 1 min
DEAD AND BREATHING at The Albany
This coruscating two-hander at the Albany offered a near-perfect theatrical experience – a terrific play, great direction, a fine set and...
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