A Christmas Carol - Rehearsals

We are thrilled to have SOLD OUT our special, candlelit performance at Southside House and cannot wait to see you all there!! 

Happily, we still have tickets available for The Coach & Horses, Barnes, on 23rd November at 3pm & 7pm - get yours online now at www.ticketsource.co.uk/shadowroad or in person from The Coach and Horses and prepare to get your festive season off to a fantastic start with us...🎄✨❄️

We look forward to seeing you there.  In the meantime, we thought you might enjoy a sneaky peek at some behind the scenes photos of our wonderful cast during rehearsal! 

Meet the Cast #6 - Sophie Carmichael

We are delighted that the lovely Sophie Carmichael - last seen as Peter Pevensie in Shadow Road's 2018 Christmas production of The Lion, The Witch &The Wardrobe - will be joining us for our 2019 winter season as well, playing a number of roles in certain performances of A Christmas Carol! 🎄✨❄️

Sophie has moved away from acting in recent years, in favour of retraining as a Speech and Language Therapist.  As you can tell, she’s doing well shaking the bug!

Theatre credits include: Macbeth (MOPA Theatre Company UK tour) Last Post (Theatre Royal, Bath), Just So Stories and The Princess Bride (Theatre Alchemists) Hansel and Gretel (Teapot Theatre), Bullpen (Theatre Delicatessen) and The Lion, The Witch &The Wardrobe for Shadow Road.

Television includes: Search for the Brontës (BBC), Football Focus (BBC).

New Information Packs Available!

We are hugely excited to launch both our PRIVATE EVENTS and our SCHOOL VISITS information packs on the website today! 🎪🍾🥂

As you will see, we are available for both commercial and private bookings – performing anything from a single play to a maximum of five in one day, if booked for both the daytime and the evening.

Why not make your event – be it a birthday or a wedding, a festival, a corporate party, or an alternative celebration for adults or children – extra special by arranging for a private theatrical performance for up to 45 of your guests at a time? 🎭🎵🎂👑✨

Please visit the Bookings page for more information - or you can download either of the packs below!

• Our perfect new Private Events pack is available to download here.
• Our shiny new Schools Pack is available to download here. 

Some Changes Afoot!

In mid-June, Emma King-Farlow and Amy Floyd sat down to discuss the changes in cast and script that were being made to the Fireside Folktales scripts in advance of their upcoming bookings at St Osmund's Church (July), Ham House & Garden (August), and Strawberry Hill House & Garden (September).  Somehow, they also ended up talking about Australian vocabulary!

Four Months On...

In the previous episode of the podcast, Emma King-Farlow and Amy Floyd were making plans for the next phase of their Fireside Folktales adventure. As they sat down for a chat on their four-month anniversary in late May, that second phase was already well under way, with several new bookings confirmed - including one for their first ever evening performances at St Osmund's Church, Barnes SW13 9RT (tickets available HERE)!
 

Feedback on Film!

As promised, here's a selection of the fantastic feedback we captured on film after our debut shows at the Barnes Children's Literature Festival 2019!

‘Fireside Folktales at BCLF 2019 - Audience Reaction' from Shadow Road on Vimeo.

What Next?

A few days after Fireside Folktales made their hugely exciting debut at the Barnes Children's Literature Festival 2019, Emma King-Farlow and Amy Floyd sat down to discuss their experiences - and to think about what comes next...

We Did It!

Well, we did it!  Our hugely exciting debut at the Barnes Children's Literature Festival saw us delivering no less than six incredibly well-received performances, each to a packed out audience, across the weekend of 11th-12th May 2019.  Many photos were taken and enthusiastic audience reaction recorded - both on paper and on film!
 

We'll be sharing some more of that feedback with you very soon.  In the meantime, however, we have now arranged some of the photos we took at the festival - and in rehearsals - on our beautiful new GALLERY page!  Do take a look and see what you missed if you were unable to make it this year.

If you did happen to come along to see us at the festival and you didn't get a chance to sign our Visitors Book or to record a vox pop on the way out, we'd still love to hear what you thought or to see any photos you might have taken.  Please drop us a line at firesidefolktales@gmail.com with any comments or pictures you'd like to share - we'd be delighted to hear from you!

One Week To Go!

On 2nd May 2019, with a little over a week to go until the Fireside Folktales company make their debut at the Barnes Children's Literature Festival, Amy Floyd and Emma King-Farlow take stock - and consider the dubious merits of releasing an unedited episode of the podcast!

Meet The Cast #4 - Alexa Bushell

Meet our final cast member! 🎪🏹🎭

We're delighted to announce Alexa Bushell, who will be playing the roles of Fox in Aesop's Fables; Demeter in Persephone & The Pomegranate Seeds; and Sergeant Cooper in A Tale of Robin Hood.

Alexa trained in dance, drama and singing at Elmhurst before touring her cabaret throughout the South West. A nominee for several Swan Awards, she has loved being part of the numerous Shadow Road productions she has previously performed in and cannot wait to share these latest ones with you!

Recent credits include Mr Tumnus & the Dwarf in The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, Miss Pickhart in Cut The Rates, David & Sir Henry of the Lea in Robin Hood, and Annas in Jesus Christ Superstar.

Three Months On...

Three months after their very first chat about Emma's mad idea of doing some 'theatre in a tent' - and two weeks before their opening performances at the Barnes Children's Literature Festival on May 11th & 12th 2019 - Amy Floyd and Emma King-Farlow reflected on the huge amount of progress they'd made over the previous 12 weeks...

Meet The Cast #1 - Sarah Robinson

It's time to meet the cast! 🎪🎭👏

We are excited to introduce you to the wonderful Sarah Robinson, who will be playing the roles of Ant and Narrator in Aesop's Fables, the Gardener and Lukas in Persephone & the Pomegranate Seeds, and Friar Tuck and Alice in A Tale of Robin Hood.

Sarah is delighted to be performing with Shadow Road Productions for the second time, having previously played Mrs Beaver in The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe. Since training at The Bridge Theatre Training Company, she has played roles such as Miss Merry in Misfits, Mrs Cratchit/Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol and Mug in The Empire Builders. She has also performed in pantomimes and musicals including 9 To 5, Cabaret and The Witches of Eastwick.

Two Plays Down, One to Go!

On the 12th April, Amy Floyd and Emma King-Farlow discussed their progress, following the previous weeks' Fireside Folktales rehearsals. Topics of conversation this time around included the weather, the tent, a lack of shoes and the continuing search for a meaningful ending!

The Flyers Are Here!

Our beautiful flyers for our upcoming debut at the Barnes Children's Literature Festival arrived today - hooray! 😍👏

The post is so exciting at the moment - always filled with exciting parcels and envelopes, containing everything from flyers, handmade wooden stools, animal ears, tails, antennae, shells and glasses, to eight-metre bell tents and metal trolleys on which to carry them! 😂

Every day brings new - and sometimes slightly weird - surprises...