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Group Details

• Type: Adults of all ages
• Age Range: 16-upwards
• Rehearsals: Wednesday

Location

• Town: Acocks Green, Birmingham
• Region: West Midlands

Contact

• Email: stage27 [at] hotmail [dot] co [dot] uk
• Phone: 0776 375 1594
• Website: http://www.stage27.org.uk

More Information:

STAGE27 is a self financed Amateur Dramatics Theatre Company
consisting of seasoned veterans of the amateur circuit and
enthusiastic beginners. The Company started life in the mid-fifties
as the Tracom Repertory Company – the name being an incorporation
of tragedy and comedy, reflecting the Company’s original aim to
alternate Productions between two different theatrical styles. The
Company changed it’s name in the Sixties as a tribute in memory of
their then producer Stanley Evans. More recently the Company
changed it’s name again to achieve a more modernised stature whilst
keeping the original Stanley Theatre initials, STAGE27 (Stanley
Theatre, Acocks Green Entertainers). From it’s foundation, the
Company staged regular Productions at the former Birmingham Theatre
Centre in Islington Row. When Birmingham’s famous Old Repertory
Theatre opened it’s doors to Amateur Groups in September 1972, the
Stanley’s gained the distinction of being the first Amateur Society
to perform with their Production of Noel Cowards’ “Present
Laughter”. The Company has gone on to perform many Productions in
Theatres and Festivals around the country, attracting members from
all walks of life along the way. Our most recent achievement was
winning the BFAME first round of the All England Theatre Festival
at the Dovehouse Theatre in February 2008. STAGE27 went on to
perform at the Quarter-Finals at Much Wenlock, Shopshire where we
successfully passed through to the Semi-Finals in Evesham in May
2008, achieving 3rd place. We won the Adult One Act Winner Award
and the AETF Birmingham Stage One Winner Award during this time and
are very proud of this achievement. Our most recent Theatre
performance was David Tristram’s ‘Ghostwriter’, and we will be
performing the Grimm Tales in January 2009. Stage27 meets every
Wednesday at 8pm for rehearsals at Acocks Green Methodist Church