LSBU Student Theatre Company presents...

The LSBU Student Theatre Company gives students the chance to work with a professional theatre team: director, production manager and designer. Throughout the year, the Company put on a number of performances.

Upcoming productions

The LSBU Association is offering all alumni the chance to register early for the LSBU Student Theatre Company productions in January, as well as a special reduced price of just £6.00.

The Good Soul of Szechuan by Bertolt Brecht directed by Jon Lee
Date: 23 - 25 Jan at 7.00pm
Venue: Edric Theatre

The Good Soul of Szechuan (translated by David Harrower) is set in Szechuan province in China but is at heart a political comment on the corruption of western capitalism. In cruel times Shen Te is the ‘tart with a heart’, the only good citizen left.  Struggling with the harshness of the times she meets three Gods and finds a way out of poverty when she miraculously becomes the owner of a tobacco shop.  But can Shen Te’s goodness survive the ruthless demands of the world of business?  Her solution is nothing less than ingenious.

This production is directed by Jon Lee, artistic director of Dirty Market Theatre.

The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Emma Caplan
Date: 16 - 18 Jan at 7.00pm
Venue: Edric Theatre

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (translated by Alistair Beaton) In a city ravaged by war a woman flees with all her possessions, leaving behind a child – her own child.  A simple servant girl sacrifices everything to care for the child and protects him through harsh and dangerous times as if he were her own.  Years later when the war is over the woman comes back to claim the child and a judge rules that only the test of the ‘chalk circle’ can determine who is the child’s rightful mother.  In a culture of corruption and deceit who will win?

This production is directed by Emma Caplan, artistic director of Moving Stories.

To book your place, please email Gill Foster on fosterg@lsbu.ac.uk and quote "Alumni Offer".