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600 Seconds: 7 DEADLY SINS – February 2025
Our Spring season 2025 kicked off with a sell-out scratch night: original playlets set in Purgatory and written by members of our advanced scriptwriting workshop.
- Nurturing new writing and showcasing new voices
- Exploring themes related to the seven deadly sins, including hatred, forgiveness, betrayal, animosity, jealousy, truth and desire
- Featured regular Spontaneous performers
- Audiences and performers love the variety of ‘scratch nights’ – like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re going to get!
Thumbelina: TINY BUT MIGHTY – March 2026
Our first family show of the year was a reimagining of the classic fairy tale, with the heroine transformed into the world’s smallest superhero by magical pollen. Battling a menacing spider, with the help of a hayfever-suffering honeybee, this was a wonderful mash-up of Hans Christian Andersen and the Marvel Universe.
It received some of our most positive audience feedback yet, with many describing it as our best show so far. It incorporated imaginative use of video effects and animation, and with help from Ravensbourne students we had one of the most impressive sets in many years.
Many sell-out performances, with audiences on their feet cheering and dancing at the end.
Many sell-out performances, with audiences on their feet cheering and dancing at the end
THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA / THE ENORMOUS TURNIP – March 2025
We transformed Upstairs at the Sydenham Centre into the Tokyo Museum of Vegetables as we presented our ‘very veggie double-bill’ of THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA & THE ENORMOUS TURNIP – featuring Spontaneous legend Hjalmar Nordén as a giant talking pea.
- Technically innovative – our staging including video projection effects and animation by Joe Kaufman of Red Kite Films
- Featured a special performance from our Japanese intern Hinako Nakamura as museum guard Midori
- First time staging a ‘two fairy tales for the price one’ show
ENDURANCE: THE ERNEST SHACKLETON STORY – April 2025
This was our biggest production to date, at St Bart’s Church. It was a hugely ambitious show about one of Sydenham’s most famous former residents, ERNEST SHACKLETON, and featured a special appearance by Mensun Bound, who led the 2022 expedition to find the Endurance in Antarctica.
- Funding from Backstage Trust enabled us to stage a more ambitious show
- Featured a cast of six Spontaneous regulars
- Was co-written by six members of our advanced ScriptHub scriptwriting workshop