Take part in a series of vocal sessions at which you can develop your singing skills as part of an ensemble and learn a number of arrangements. Sessions are led by Jo Collins, Chickenshed’s Director of Music. No previous experience or ability to read music is required - all you need is a love of singing and plenty of enthusiasm!
Chickenshed
These end of year shows are the final pieces by students that have studied on our BTEC or Foundation Degree courses and represent the culmination of all their learning and creativity during their time here.
Studio Theatre
Chickenshed’s Performance Workshops are a series in which you will develop your performing skills and creative ideas using Chickenshed’s methods and practices. During the 8-week workshop you will explore a number of performing arts disciplines and will gain skills, confidence and understanding of how to develop creative ideas and take them further.
Chickenshed
Tales from the Shed once again returns to Dugdale Centre for summer 2013. Tales from the Shed is a highly entertaining, interactive theatre show that is perfect for young children. It is informal, lively and amazingly engaging as the performers and audience share the same space. We guarantee that every show will be fun, really silly and that there will be plenty of colourful puppets and live songs.
Dugdale Centre, Thomas Hardy House, 39 London Road, Enfield, EN2 6DS
Tales from the Shed is a highly entertaining, interactive theatre show that is perfect for young children. It is informal, lively and amazingly engaging as the performers and audience share the same space. We guarantee that every show will be fun, really silly and that there will be plenty of colourful puppets and live songs. Children are always encouraged to make a lot of noise and to make the story happen.
Studio Theatre
Please join us for the return of this hugely enjoyable night of comedy. Following an exceptional line-up from our Spring gig, which included Shappi Khorsandi, this new event is sure to be another hit.
Chickenshed Bar
Saturday Shed is a great opportunity for young people aged 5 - 12 years old (from School Year 1) to develop their performance skills using our proven teaching methods and unique performance style.
Dance Studio
Jo Collins is an immensely talented singer-songwriter and is Director of Music at Chickenshed. Backed by her in-house band, Jo plays a thrilling set of eclectic covers taking in pop, soul, funk and folk. During the evening guests are also welcome to take to the stage for a song or two as part of this fun, relaxed and highly enjoyable Saturday night event.
Chickenshed Bar
This is a fantastic chance for the wider public to come and see our Youth Theatre (aged 13-21) perform a piece that they have devised and written together and that will be performed in Chickenshed's characteristic physical style.
Rayne Theatre
Using Cardboard Citizens' Forum Theatre techniques and Chickenshed's devising style, this will be a unique chance for those aged 16+ to take part in a free collaborative workshop that will help to creatively develop a new work.
Rayne Theatre
The sensational pianist/composer Neil Angilley and his outstanding Latin rhythm section; Davide Mantovanni on bass and Davide Giovannini on drums, entertain with pulsating Afro-Cuban music from their unique albums Havana Club and Chango.
Chickenshed Bar
Be a cast member in a flash mob event! Join us for a free workshop where you will learn the material needed to take part a flash mob performance entitled All Together Now that will take place in various locations around Kensington and Chelsea. All ages and abilities welcome and no previous experience in dance or performance required – just an interest in taking part and plenty of enthusiasm! Suitable for age 11+.
Chelsea Theatre, 7 World's End Place, Kings Road, London, SW10 0DR
Members from Chickenshed Kensington and Chelsea Theatre Company will join together with members of the public to perform a flash mob performance exploring the things that connect us. All Together Now will bring people together through dance, physical theatre and song in places where people usually just pass each other by.
Various times and locations between 11am - 4.30pm in Kensington and Chelsea
A perfect opportunity to enjoy a family day out at Chickenshed, this mini festival has both much-loved and new routines from Tales from the Shed, plus lots of stalls where children can watch or take part in fun and creative activities.
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Participants at these week-long events will explore and develop a wide range of performance skills through workshops that involve drama, dance, singing and story-making. Parents and friends will be invited in on the final afternoon to see a performance. For 5 - 12 year olds (from School Year 1).
Chickenshed
A great opportunity for young people aged 6-14yrs to develop their performance skills in drama, music, dance and singing using Chickenshed’s proven teaching methods and unique performance style.
Chelsea Academy, Lots Road, SW10 0AB
Become a Tales from the Shed cast member for a week as the team get their show Fairies' Tale ready and then perform on stage. Experience all areas of the Tales world including movement, singing, improvisation and puppetry. Those taking part will appear in at least 3 performances of Fairies’ Tale and will need to attend all the scheduled times of the workshops. For 6 to 10 year olds.
Studio Theatre
Instantly plunged into a young man’s compelling story of growing up in turbulent Zimbabwe, we live and breathe his extraordinary and dramatic journey from innocence to escape, finally returning to his homeland to witness Mugabe’s greatest betrayal. Actor Ashley Maynard enacts Christopher’s extraordinary story and the characters that he meets along the way in this warm, funny and at times brutal and shocking play.
Pleasance Dome, Potterow, 1 Bristro Square, EH8 9AL
When humans grow up, they stop believing in fairies. For your average fairy, on the other hand, humans are a mysterious race that exist only in legends and fables.
Studio Theatre
Become a Tales from the Shed cast member for a week as the team get their show Fairies' Tale ready and then perform on stage. Experience all areas of the Tales world including movement, singing, improvisation and puppetry. Those taking part will appear in at least 3 performances of Fairies’ Tale and will need to attend all the scheduled times of the workshops. For 6 to 10 year olds.
Studio Theatre
Participants at these week-long events will explore and develop a wide range of performance skills through workshops that involve drama, dance, singing and story-making. Parents and friends will be invited in on the final afternoon to see a performance. For ages 5 - 12 year olds (from School Year 1).
Chickenshed
Tales from the Shed are highly entertaining, interactive theatre shows that are perfect for young children. They are informal, lively and amazingly engaging as the performers and audience share the same space - children are always encouraged to make a lot of noise and to make the story happen. We guarantee that every show will be fun, really silly and that there will be plenty of colourful puppets and live songs.
Studio Theatre
A series of theatre workshops for the over 60s which also provide a great opportunity to meet new people with a shared passion for theatre and the performing arts as well as the chance to work with Chickenshed’s highly experienced practitioners. We recommend booking your place early as places are limited.
Chickenshed
Take part in a series of vocal sessions at which you can develop your singing skills as part of an ensemble and learn a number of arrangements. Sessions are led by Jo Collins, Chickenshed’s Director of Music. No previous experience or ability to read music is required - all you need is a love of singing and plenty of enthusiasm!
Chickenshed
Saturday Shed is a great opportunity for young people aged 5 - 12 years old (from School Year 1) to develop their performance skills using our proven teaching methods and unique performance style.
Dance Studio
The brilliant jazz bassist presents a captivating show that reflects his life-long passion for Spain and its music. Spanish Accents features the acclaimed jazz violinist Christian Garrick, the authentic Spanish guitar exponent Phil Robson, renowned saxophonist Mark Lockheart, specialist Latin-percussionist Demi Garcia and the ‘baby’ of the Dankworth Dynasty, Alec’s talented vocalist daughter Emily Dankworth. A unique evening of sparkling Spanish spirit and Mediterranean warmth.
Chickenshed Bar
Come and visit us on for unique guided tours of our modern, accessible purpose-built theatre. You'll be taken to usually restricted areas such as the Rayne Theatre, Studio Theatre, dance studio and backstage areas. Along the way you'll be able to gain an insight into what makes Chickenshed such a special building - there might even be the chance to watch a rehearsal of our upcoming autumn Studio Theatre show!
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Professor Hallux has been building a body, but there’s a problem. Together with his brilliant assistant, Nurse Nanobot, he must check through every component from the brain, heart and lungs to the eyeballs, nails and teeth to work out just what’s gone wrong. This multi-media and immersive production will have bags of participation and fun. Meet characters from medicine’s past and present and enjoy getting to know a bit more about how the body works.
Studio Theatre
The Chickenshed Challenge is a fantastic way to get fit and help to raise money for a local charity - last year 200+ people took part, raising over £10,000 for Chickenshed. This year we're looking to exceed the amount raised in 2012!. We do hope that you will be able to join us, as the event promises to be bigger, brighter and bursting with even more energy than before.
Starts 10am at Chickenshed
A group of small town money-grabbing officials get the shock of their lives when they learn that a Government Inspector is being dispatched to investigate their town and all its local dealings. But as panic and self-preservation set in, will anyone think to question the Inspector’s credentials?
Studio Theatre
Participants at this week-long event will explore and develop a wide range of performance skills through workshops that involve drama, dance, singing and story-making. Parents and friends will be invited in on the final afternoon to see a performance. For 5 - 12 year olds (from School Year 1).
Chickenshed
On the opening night of the London Jazz Festival, Jazz at Chickenshed brings you a sensational show featuring both of Chickenshed’s major box-office attractions on the same bill! Experience the unrivalled jazz funk of Julian Marc Stringle and the Dream Band featuring Neil Angilley, Dominic Ashworth, Mike Bradley and Chris Dodd plus the unique, powerful, charismatic and ‘not to be missed’ jazz vocal entertainer Liane Carroll.
Chickenshed Bar
It's Christmas Eve and, too excited to sleep, the children are desperate to tear into their huge sack of presents. However the gifts they find are clearly not for them - instead these are gifts meant for Cinderella's Ugly Sisters, Mr Ebenezer Scrooge and The Snow Queen. So the children realise they must journey to magical faraway lands to return these presents, learning the true meaning of Christmas as they go - and all before Midnight!
Rayne Theatre
Christmas Tales is a fun and festive celebration that takes the very best of our wonderful Tales from the Shed shows and then sprinkles it with new, magical and larger-than-life characters – and then puts the whole thing on our biggest stage, The Rayne Theatre!
Rayne Theatre
After the 5.30pm performance of The Night Before Christmas on Sunday 15 December, join us for a glass of wine and a mince pie and celebrate the launch of ‘Chickenshed – An Awfully Big Adventure’ – a new book which commemorates Chickenshed’s many highlights and achievements over the last 40 years.
Chickenshed Bar