Thomas Everchild and Philippa Hammond

Afterthought Theatre Productions (ATP) began with Suns and Lovers, an intimate evening of storytelling at a small artists run Brighton gallery (The Bear Cave Gallery) one Brighton Fringe. This developed into Unreliable Romances expanding on the original with stories, poetry, stand up, and music with bassist Mike Eyers, followed by Glimpse a quartet of one woman plays sweeping from 5th century Egypt, through Edwardian film making, 1940s film noir and present day backstage at a strange fringe theatre show…

These two shows, developed and produced in the then David Land Centre were later performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The adaptation of Fanny Hill followed them to Edinburgh two years later…

For several years now, Thomas Everchild and Philippa Hammond have participated in leading the Monday Evening Drama Group hosted by The New Venture Theatre in Brighton.

During these occasional sessions we have developed our practical Acting and Directing from A Script programme.

The evenings run most months (with a couple of exceptions) and are lead by various invited facilitators.

New Venture Theatre Website: https://newventure.org.uk/

Dan Leno was a major Victorian music hall star, whose work influenced the likes of Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin.

Unlike them, he died young, so never had the opportunity to work in film, or sound.
He did just make it into an ancestor of the future film industry; the Mutograph.

The (so far) only remaining complete Mutograph reel of Dan Leno has been restored by Studio 1919.

Sussex Playwrights meetings continue to meet on the first Sunday of the month at the New Venture Theatre…

This year is The Sussex Playwrights Club 90th anniversary –
We’re building the ‘new and improved’ website here…

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