The Final Curtain

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'Greenwich Playhouse answers cynical landlord claims to keep the venue open post-April 2012'

 

The Greenwich Playhouse will close its doors on the 10th April 2012 after twenty years of service to theatre and following a final production by Galleon Theatre Company of the great John Webster classic The Duchess of Malfi.

The Greenwich Playhouse will close in April 2012 as the theatre’s landlords - Beds and Bars - have decided not to renew this popular South East London venue’s lease in order to exploit commercial opportunities offered by the Olympics. Theatre landlord’s Beds and Bars, run hostels throughout Europe, offering cheap bunk-bed facilities for backpackers.

The Greenwich Playhouse is located in a building which has housed a studio theatre since 1989. Galleon Theatre Company took residency at the venue in 1995 and has since staged an incomparable body of work. The Greenwich Playhouse is Greenwich’s all year producing theatre. Annually it stages in the region of 12-14 theatre productions and these generate work and entertainment for some 15,000 people.

The venue and resident company’s artistic director, Alice de Sousa, said:

“The Greenwich Playhouse and Galleon Theatre Company have over two decades made an immeasurable contribution to our capital’s cultural infrastructure. The Greenwich Playhouse is one of London’s most established small scale theatres. The work shown at this critically acclaimed venue draws annually from all over the world and the immediate community many, many thousands of people. The Greenwich Playhouse has been a platform for celebrating theatrical excellence since 1995, when Galleon Theatre Company became resident. It has staged hundreds of high quality theatre productions which have entertained and created work for hundreds of thousands of people. It is regrettable that the theatre’s landlord Beds and Bars, who have benefitted for eleven years from generous revenue generated by the theatre’s substantial trade, should have their sights focused on such short term objectives as the Olympics.’

The Greenwich Playhouse and Galleon Theatre Company are in discussions with Greenwich Council, who have been active supporters of the organisation’s efforts to find a new home in a borough where they have been resident for over sixteen years.

The Greenwich Playhouse’s final production:

THE DUCHESS OF MALFI

by JOHN WEBSTER Dates: 21st February - 18th March 2012

Directed by Bruce Jamieson;
Produced by Alice de Sousa;
Presented by Galleon Theatre Company at the Greenwich Playhouse

Costumes by Natasha Piper;
Scenery by Charlotte Randell;
Lighting by Philip Jones.

Tues-Sat @ 7.30pm & Sun @ 4pm
Tickets: £13, £10 (concs)

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Nico a Noite

Alice de Sousa appeared on Portuguese television to discuss her twenty five year career as an internationally award winning actress, producer and writer. In a prestigious interview on Portugal's national television channel RTP 1 and on its major show 'Nico a Noite' hosted by Portugal's star of television and film Nicolau Breyner, Ms. de Sousa spoke at length about her many past theatre productions and of her future plans for the exciting slate of feature films which she is currently developing with international partners.

For an extract of this interview, please visit here

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Iris Productions UK Ltd

Alice de Sousa and award winning film maker and producer Nicolas Steil have created Iris Productions UK Ltd. a film production and financing company.

Iris Productions UK is the British representative of The Iris Group, a film production group based in Luxembourg, with sister companies in France, Belgium, UK and Germany. The Iris Group has been producing high quality independent cinema, animation and documentary since 1986. The company has produced nearly thirty feature films, many of these have internationally won awards, are regularly selected for inclusion in international festivals and have been selected by the Academy of Motion Pictures in the Best Film in a Foreign Language category.

The Iris Group annually produces four high quality features.

For further information please contact Alice de Sousa on alicedesousa@iris-uk.eu

For further information on the Iris Group, please see the website www.theirisgroup.eu

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The Maias - A Galleon Theatre Production

Galleon Theatre Company’s world première of THE MAIAS was originally stage at the Greenwich Playhouse in 2002. In 2011, Galleon is reviving this production which was nine years ago uniformly and internationally acclaimed.

The Maias will be showing the the Greenwich Playhouse from 8th March until 3rd April 2011. For full details download the official press release.

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And the nominations are...

Galleon Theatre Company is delighted to announce that its company directors, Bruce Jamieson and Alice de Sousa, have been respectively nominated in the ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Producer’ categories for the Off West End Theatre Awards - The OFFIES.

The OFFIES reward and honour the excellence of independent theatres in London.

The OFFIES will be announced on Sunday 27th February during a reception hosted by Simon Callow.

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Alice de Sousa wins second international award in six months...

Alice de Sousa, Artistic Director of the Greenwich Playhouse and Galleon Theatre Company, and CEO of Galleon Films, was presented with the coveted award ‘Prémio de Talento ‘ in the category of the ‘Performing Arts’...

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Galleon Films announces that casting for The Duchess of Malfi feature film has commenced

Galleon Films Ltd. (UK) in co-production with Iris Productions (Luxembourg - www.irisproductions.lu) will create the first ever filmic reworking of this incomparable classic, which has for nearly four hundred years secured won towering stage performances from the leading actors of each successive generation.

Casting has commenced for The Duchess of Malfi feature film, which will be directed by the 2010 Oscars shortlisted director and Palm Springs Film Festival nominee - Nicolas Steil.

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