Fri 11th April - 7:30 pm @ Lincolnshire Poacher, Mansfield Road, Nottingham

All members and supporters are welcome to join us for our next business meeting.

During the meeting, we will look at recent activities, things coming up, funding and all that. It is not as dry as it sounds.

If you want more details get in touch.

guy@hothousetheatre.com

Please confirm that you can make it and are happy to read.

If you want a copy of the script emailed ahead of the session let me know.

You are invited to Hothouse Theatre's Read Through Night.

This is an opportunity to have a close look at a couple of the Theatre projects in the pipeline. We will be reading through:

Miss Fletcher's War – this is the second read through and the piece has now been whittled down to 60 minutes. The story follows the fortunes of Lucy a nurse in the First World War, and Miss Fletcher's attempts to make Lucy's story relevant to a bunch of wayward children in the late 1960's.

They Turned Up - the first half of a new project by Stuat Whomsley - “It is about 40 minutes worth. It is the first half of the play up to the interval. There are 9 characters in the play up to this point. I would be interested in people inhabiting the characters and then getting an idea of how they would respond to situations in the second half.”

The read throughs are not auditions, they are part of the writing process.

Thanks for your support.

If you are interested in reading on the night then get in touch info@hothousetheatre.com

Have a go sessions Sat 12th and 26th April, 10 - 2pm @ Bakersfield Community Centre

For 10 - 18 year olds

A chance to mess around with cameras and sound recorders to create sketches go on trips, and have a whole lot of fun and make new friends!

All the sessions are FREE!

For more information or to sign up for our have-a-go sessions send us an email.info@hothousetheatre.com

You can also book onto the sessions via eventbrite.

Places are limited.

Hothouse Theatre’s youth project, also known as Film Club (although we are just as likely to do audio projects these days), has been running for about 15 years.

Over the years we have done a lot of messing around making short films, going on fun trips, visiting other community projects, running film festivals, and making podcasts. It is now expanding to include young people in Bakersfield, St Anns and Sneinton.

The young people are between the ages of 10 – 18 and are in control of the projects they undertake, and are involved in all aspects of the productions and reports.

All sessions will be led by our Workshop Leader who is a fully trained teacher, experienced community worker and youth worker, and a support worker.

Check out some of our recent audio projets

For more information or to sign up for our have-a-go sessions send us an email.info@hothousetheatre.com

You can also book onto the sessions via eventbrite.

Places are limited.

The postponed part 3.1 of Introducing Mr Charles Dickens will be released on Oh My Nottz in May.

Auditions for the next instalment will be in June. To make the whole process a lot less time consuming we are looking to rehearse and record at the same sessions.

If you are interested in being involved with the Dickens project

info@hothousetheatre.com

Introducing Mr Charles Dickens so far.

The audio version of The Mermaid and the King is nearly all now available. Just the grand finale, Part 4 to finish off editing and place on the Oh My Nottz website, which will be done in the next couple of weeks – watch this space!

There will, after that be a second version produced for release as a podcast, with Monday in the role of Rumpelstiltskin.

Catch up with The Mermaid and the King parts 1-3 Click Here

OMN Spring Collection

A selection of audio pieces produced by various Hothouse Theatre community projects that have been posted on the Oh My Nottz website.

This edition includes a report from the Wilder Nottinghamshire Celebration event, the Belvoir Challenge, feedback from Hothouse Theatre's youth project, a fake advert from Dunc and 3 poems.

click here

Hothouse Theatre Pod
Folktale Project

This will be a celebration of the Hothouse Theatre's Folktale projects and will feature Pinocchio – in 4 parts, Cinderella, Jack and the Bean Stalk, a Robin Hood yarn, and The Mermaid and the King, plus a few others thrown in for good measure.

The first episode will be released in May.

Pix-Mix is going to be an audio magazine full of sketches, stories, poems and other stuff.

This will be a programme for all ages so no politics and no swearing, unless it is censored with a bleep! (The swearing that is ... not the politics)

Hothouse Theatre will be editing the programme and our decision will be final.

Pieces need to be 10 minutes or less, to fit in with the 30 min programme.

If you want to submit an audio piece, then follow this link.

We will need a WAV file of the piece, a photo to go with it, a short description, and a few words about you. Oh and you will need to fill out the submissions form to confirm that you have all the permissions for the piece.. Interested getting involved? Drop us a line pixmix@hothousetheatre.com

Hothouse Theatre has stopped using Twitter. We are currently experimenting with Threads and Mastodon as alternative social media platforms.

We are still on facebook as Hothouse Theatre, Oh My Nottz and Writer's Block

A Nottingham based poetry collective. Produces DIY Poets magazine and regular poetry events.

Hothouse supports them by providing access to our Zoom account for meetings, technical support for performances, and Guy recently wrote and launched their new website.

Click here

A project supporting people for whom English is a second language.

Hothouse supports them by providing access to our Zoom account for meetings.

Click here

Meeting up on Wednesdays and weekends, Keeping it Wild is all about connecting with nature and each other. We are wildlife campaigners, conservationists, fundraisers, adventurers and your new best friends! We manage our own reserve on behalf of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, collaborate with and visit other trusts, and love a good board game!

Hothouse is supporting them to produce podcasts.

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