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Exciting news, as well as bringing Play On Words back to Buxton, Three's Company will be bringing two new episodes of their interactive-comedy-radio-show A Live Transmission of Adventure Time!

3C's alter-ego Comedy Trio attempt to record Episodes 3 and 4 of their spooftastic radio comedy, but a late actress, broken CDs, script malfunctions and a large dollop of over-ambition see the audience dragged in to save the day.

Join Tom, Yaz and I (as Jon, Jazz and Martin (playing Nigel, Ronnie and Archie)) with a special guest appearance from Buxton favourite Kayleigh McDonald.

Click here to book.

This summer, Noir is the new Black!

Labels: adventure time, announcements, buxton fringe, comedy trio, interactivity

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After a hard month of negotiations, we're very proud to announce confirmed plans for Three's Company's 2009 Summer Tour.

By popular demand, 2007's award-winning, sell-out hit Play On Words will return, starring all three of Michael Grady-Hall, Tom Crawshaw and Yaz Al-Shaater. We're over the moon to be performing a full show together again for the first time since 2005! In an act of reckless hubris, we have further decided to rotate the three male roles (Fred, Eddie & Jonnie) so we each play a different part each night.

We are particularly pleased to announce that the show has been chosen to appear at the Pleasance Dome at the Edinburgh Fringe - a venue which has hosted such internationally famous acts as Cheek By Jowl, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The League Of Gentlemen, Bill Bailey, and The Mighty Boosh. We'll be there, as part of the world's biggest arts festival, every day from 5th - 31st August.

Of course we'll be bringing the show home to the Buxton Fringe in July as well - where we'll also be running a cracking line up at Underground Venues - and to London in June (venue tbc). There also plans to take the show further after Edinburgh.

We're very proud to welcome Mariam Bell (who you may have seen in our mini-play Dreams May Come) who will be taking the role of Jen for the tour.

This does not, however, mean that our other work on Adventure Time and the development of Auditorium has been put on hold. Workshops will continue over the next few months - so look for announcements soon!

Finally, our thanks to all those in our all-new Support Scheme - who have made, and continue to make, this work possible.

Labels: 2009 tour, announcements, buxton fringe, edinburgh, play on words

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Breaking news... Three's Company have just been invited to speak at The Centre for Excellence in Theatre Training (CETT) this April. We will be taking part in the two day 'Theatre Materials/Material Theatres' conference this April, speaking about Creative Enterprise. The event will be led by Karl Rouse, Senior Lecturer in Alternative Theatre & New Performance Practice at Central School of Speech & Drama, with David Kirby (distinguished author of Entrepreneurship) and Elizabeth Bradley from New York University.

The international conference is one of a series of annual events run by CETT, and we're very excited to be involved!

More details to follow soon. Click the title of this post (or here) to find out more about the conference, or book your place...

Labels: announcements, cssd

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Congratulations to Tom, whose Play On Words has been chosen to be performed in a High School theatre festival in Austin, Texas. Following Three's Company's successful Edinburgh Fringe production of the play (as part of its first ever UK tour) it attracted a number of offers from directors from around the globe.

Play On Words will hopefully be seen closer to home in the not-too-distant future, with plans for a Three's Company revival on the cards...

Labels: announcements, edinburgh, play on words, tom

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We're very excited to announce Auditorium - a sparkling new experimental comedy that we'll be taking around the UK for our Summer 2008 Tour.

We can already confirm that Yaz Al-Shaater will star as 'Guy' - the accident-prone bookshop owner who finds an audience in his storeroom. The project will also see Tom, Yaz & Michael finally reunited after completing their various training (at Oxford, CSSD and RADA respecively).

Auditorium will be a farce like none before, mixing traditional theatre conventions with a truly unique, interactive, multi-media experience. It will be Three's Company's largest production to date with a planned cast in excess of 10 and is aiming for some of the Edinburgh Fringe's largest theatres. Watch this space for more info - and how to be involved...

Labels: 2008 tour, announcements, auditorium, interactivity

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Yes that's right! - after it's sell-out success in Edinburgh, the fast-punning tragi-comedy will be making a transfer to the Etcetera theatre in London next month.

This is your last chance to see this production as it comes to the end of its 43 performances across the UK. Performance dates are confirmed as:

• Tuesday 9th October, 9:30pm
• Wedneasday 10th October, 9:30pm
• Thursday 11th October, 9:30pm
• Thursday 18th October, 9:30pm
• Friday 19th October, 9:30pm
• Saturday 20th October, 9:30pm
• Sunday 21st October, 8:30pm

The Etcetera Theatre is a fantastic studio found above The Oxford Arms on Camden High Street. It's a minute down the road from Camden Town tube and just opposite Camden market.

Whether you missed it in Edinburgh or fancy seeing it again why not pop along one night and join us all for an exciting night's entertainment and a drink in the pub after. Do drop us a line or join our facebook event if you're coming so we can look out for you. And if you still need convincing - check out our reviews and awards or audience feedback.

Labels: announcements, london, play on words

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Ok so today we're announcing the launch of our new service: 'Scripted'.
This will be an online service to link young writer and directors initally, but will gradually grow into a resource and social utility for small theatre companies, young practitioners, and all makers of small scale/fringe theatre.

Features include:

• Writers - upload synopsis and overviews of scripts you've written
• Directors/Producers - browse scripts and request full versions from writers
• A forum for makers of small scale theatre to exchange ideas, advice and meet each other
• Articles with advice for small/startup theatre companies

The service will be launching over September - if you're interested then please add your email address to the box on the right.

Watch this space!

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Apologies to those who were not able to make it into Play On Words over the last few days. Due to fire regulations we were not able to fit any more in. Our final performance on Saturday has also sold out... but we can confirm that we will be adding another on Sunday at 1:30pm: book now!

Labels: announcements, buxton fringe, play on words

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We can now confirm that Ronia Salman-Lord will be appearing in the role of Jen in Play On Words. Haroun Al-Shaater will also join us in the role of Jonny - the technical operator who also takes a fair role in the action.

Labels: announcements, buxton fringe, casting, play on words

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