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With a rich tone and sense of swing that is both moving and exciting, Rachel Sutton performs classics from The American Songbook, together with her beautiful original compositions which have been hailed as 'a revelation' by Jazz Views. Her latest album “A Million Conversations” has been received with considerable acclaim and she will be performing material from this album plus, as she puts it a “sneak preview of my new single due for release at the end of January”. Also featured this afternoon is her swinging rhythm section of Roland Perrin-piano, Curtis Ruiz-bass & Paul Robinson-drums.

PANEL DESCRIPTION If you're an emerging playwright, director or theatre creative looking for insight on how you can get your work into the hands of a producer, this panel discussion is for you. In this course we will be demystifying the job of a producer - what they do, how they do it, the different types of producing, how to find them, how to pitch to them and more. With Producers Simon Castle (Grey Castle Productions), Mwansa Phiri (Visual Sauce), Benjamin Alborough (Liebenspiel) and Alex Critoph (Women's Writes), hosted by Drayton Arms Theatre Artistic Director Audrey Thayer (Lost Girl Productions). Bring a notebook, pen and your questions! PANEL DETAILS This panel will run 7pm-9pm, including a Q&A at the end. YOUR PANELISTS Simon Castle is a queer, new writing producer. Through his production company, Grey Castle Productions, he develops and stages original new work which platforms bold LGBTQIA+ talent, on and off stage. Producing credits include: Is the WiFi Good in Hell? (Underbelly, Off West End Award finalist) Dead Dad Show (Soho Theatre/UK Tour); Two Tribes (Leeds Playhouse, Shortlisted for both the Tony Craze and Charlie Hartill Awards); lenny. (Omnibus Theatre, Fringe Theatre Award-nominated) Simon was also the engagement producer on Positive (Southwark Playhouse) and on All Of Them, Dead (Everyman Cheltenham, Pegasus Theatre, Prime Theatre). Currently developing: DYBBUK (artsdepot) Simon is an alumnus of The National Theatres Playwriting Programme, Soho Theatres Writers Lab and Soho Theatres Alumni Group, The PappyShows Mentoring Programme and The North Wall Arts Centres Catalyst Residency. Mwansa Phiri is a multi-award-winning creative producer and theatre-maker, and a recent nominee for Best Producer at the 2025 Black British Theatre Awards. An alumna of Stage Ones Bridge the Gap and Tamashas Digital Producers programmes, she is also a BAFTA Connect member and Stage One bursary recipient. Mwansa is the founder of Visual Sauce, a multi-disciplinary production company creating critically acclaimed work that amplifies impactful and underrepresented stories across theatre, film, and immersive productions. Alex Critoph is a freelance producer whose credits include Salt-Water Moon at the Finborough Theatre, named One to see in London by The Times, featured as Lyn Gardners Pick of the Week, and awarded nine four-star reviews, including from The Stage. She produced Five Characters in Search of a Good Nights Sleep at Southwark Playhouse, directed by the acclaimed Mike Alfreds, praised as a showcase of the very best of acting (London Living Large, 5-stars). Other work includes Well Dance on the Ash of the Apocalypse at The Park Theatre's Come What May Festival. She has also produced multiple ACE-funded play development periods, including in partnership with Liverpool Everyman, The Bush and Oxford Playhouse. Through her company Womens Writes, championing female-identifying and non-binary playwrights, Alex has produced work at VAULT Festival, The Arcola, and an ONCOMM-nominated online festival during lockdown. Womens Writes has been named Socially and Politically imperative by London Theatre, Redressing the balance by The Stage and Empowering by DIVA Magazine. Benjamin Alborough is a theatre producer and programmer and recipient of the 2022 Stage One bursary award. As a freelancer he manages tour bookings and general management for a wide range of clients across both the subsidised and commercial sectors. Recent shows include a sell-out national tour of The Pirates of Penzance, opening at the Chichester Festival Theatre. With his company Liebenspiel, he helps develop new comedy and cabaret formats and programmes seasons of work in existing venues and acts as a consultant for venue programmers and live promoters, in addition to programming comedy and cabaret for international music festivals - seasons include at the Brighton Spiegeltent, Bedlam Theatre, King's Head Theatre and music festivals like Camp Wildfire. Liebenspiel is a recipient of the Keep it Fringe fund and a nominee for a Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality. Previous work includes Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story at Jermyn St Theatre (6x Offie noms, 2x Offie wins), a national tour of hit Fringe show ...Earnest?", touring improvised comedy Locomotive for Murder and avant-garde interactive theatre show The Faustus Project. Benjamin has been producing since 2014, acting as Associate Producer for Islingtons Hope Theatre and Head of Programming for RED Entertainment. Over the course of the last five years, Benjamin has placed over 800 performances of just over 60 productions in approximately 300 venues around the UK Audrey Thayer is a freelance producer, dramaturg and Artistic Director of the Drayton Arms Theatre. She graduated in 2015 from Chapman University after earning degrees in both Theatre Studies and English Literature. Previously Audrey worked as a Resident Assistant Producer at Theatre503, after which she began freelance producing before taking over as Artistic Director of the Drayton Arms Theatre in November 2016. Since then she has programmed over 500 productions, with roughly 83% of those productions being brand new work. Over the past several years, productions at the Drayton Arms Theatre have achieved 9 Off West End Award nominations, 5 finalists for the London Pub Theatre awards as well as 1 win, plus countless additional nominations over the past several years. Works produced by Audrey's theatre company Lost Girl Productions include The Lesson (Theatre503), Midnight Tattoos (Drayton Arms Theatre). Works produced freelance or in association include A Sacred Place (rehearsed reading, Drayton Arms Theatre), Tenderfoot (Drayton Arms Theatre), The Laundry (Drayton Arms Theatre), You're Human Like the Rest of Us (Finborough) and Top Trumps (Theatre503). Spaces are limited! For any further questions please email [email protected] All participants get 50% off a meal downstairs in the Drayton Arms pub

Brazen Hodgepodge is a sketch comedy show! A fast-paced evening of original sketch comedy scenes and songs. Whether it's current events or public figures, absurd situations or social problems, we will make fun of all of it. Join us for a packed show of silliness and satire.

A soulful and versatile jazz & blues singer-songwriter, Meg Lee has graced stages alongside artists such as Rumer, Kat Eaton and Sarah Jane Morris. Bringing a contemporary edge to timeless classics Meg is also a fine songwriter, with her own material earning regional and national airplay. Her various recordings include her 2018 debut album “Meet Me” along with her follow up EP “Wintertime Thing” and her latest single, "Big Beautiful Beat”. Known for her warm stage presence and natural charm, Meg’s style is a true mix of the old and the new and we are delighted to welcome her to the Club tonight. Also featuring the brilliant Brandon Allen (Kyle Eastwood, Eric Clapton)-sax.

Blue Harlem have been widely regarded as one of the top swing/jump-blues bands on the London scene for over 15 years. Their last performance sold out at the club. They enjoy an international reputation - 2007 found them launching the 4th International Film Festival of Dubai and in 2008, they were personally invited by Baz Luhrmann to perform for the launch of his 1940's blockbuster movie 'Australia'. They have been invited on three separate occasions to perform at Highgrove House charity balls for the Prince's Trust. They have an enviable reputation as a party band, having played for society soirees all over the UK - including Buckingham Palace, Annabel's, The Sands Venue and Burgh Island. They also regularly perform abroad, appearing at jazz festivals in Spain, Norway, Belgium and Germany.

Discover how the world can generate and use energy more sustainably to limit climate change in our free gallery. Looking at the past, present and future of energy systems, Energy Revolution: The Adani Green Energy Gallery features recognisable and surprising objects plus interactive exhibits to highlight how we can journey to a more sustainable world—and our role in achieving that low carbon future. See a pioneering electric taxi that’s 100 years old, challenge yourself to balance electricity supply and demand in one of our interactive games, and marvel at a vast seven metre tidal turbine blade, which helped generate enough electricity to power a thousand homes. This free gallery contains three sections, each exploring this century’s defining challenge in a different way:Future Planet explores the climate change we are already experiencing and how scientists use complex computer models to glimpse the climate futures we could face, depending on the decisions we make today.Future Energy focuses on the technologies—and the people behind them—that are reimagining how energy is supplied and used today, as well as showcasing artefacts that have led the way in the energy transition away from fossil fuels.Our Future looks forward to an inspiring new world that is being imagined, with children’s creative ideas of how the world will meet its future energy needs showcased through a hands-on, interactive table. Find out more about the Science Museum Group's approach to sustainability .