Community
We are excited to meet people who live and work in Islington who may not have been to the Almeida before or may not have considered taking part in one of our projects before.
Community Audition Workshops
Would you like to meet new people and challenge yourself to try something different?
We are looking for people who live, work or study in Islington to be part of a fun rehearsal process, working with a professional team to make and perform in a new play that will be performed at the Almeida in August 2025.
The play is the second part of a trilogy that celebrates Islington’s communities, looking at key moments in our lives: celebrations, rites of passage and moments of change.
To take part, you need to live, work or study in Islington. You don’t need to have acted before – we welcome people who have had no experience. For this specific project we are really looking for local people who would not identify as working professionally as artists – be that currently engaged in productions or aspiring to be.
Audition workshops: Sat 8 and Sun 9 Mar
Rehearsal period: Thursdays 7-9pm and some Sundays between April and July
Intensive rehearsals: A mixture of Saturdays and Sundays from 27 July
Tech, dress rehearsal and performance week: Mon 18-Sat 23 Aug
The project is completely free to take part in. Anyone selected to take part in the project will receive a contribution toward travel expenses in each session.
The Almeida is committed to supporting participants with access requirements. If there is anything you would like to let us know that will support you through taking part in the workshops, you can do so by emailing us at participate@almeida.co.uk
We will be running audition workshops on:
Sat 8 Mar 11am-1pm | Sign up here >
Sat 8 March 2-4pm | Sign up here >
Sun 9 Mar 11am-1pm | Sign up here >
Sun 9 Mar 2-4pm | Sign up here >
These will all take place at William Tyndale Primary School, Upper Street, N1 1RG.
You will have the opportunity to take part in some group activities, games, and exercises, meet some of the team and ask questions. You won’t need to prepare anything in advance, and you do not need any experience to attend the audition or be a part of the project.
There are around 25 places available on the project – and we will be looking for a mixture of ages, experience levels and an ability to commit to weekly rehearsals and performances.
Community Play Trilogy
This ambitious trilogy of productions, taking place over three years, will bring together professional creatives, local artists and community performers to explore what it means to live, work, love, pray, celebrate and mourn in Islington through a day, a lifetime, and countless millennia.
The project is being told in three productions 24 (Day), 81 (Life) and 1000 (Millennia).
The first of these productions, 24 (Day), took place in August 2023. The production invited the audience on a riotous road-trip to explore the hidden life of Islington from dawn to dusk. From Arsenal football stands to Rowans bowling alley, we joined seventy-year-old carer Liz as she ran, bowled, danced and crowd surfed around Islington and away from the conversation she needed to have with her grandson. Find out more.
81 (Life) will celebrate Islington’s global diaspora communities through the rituals that mark the rites of passage in a human lifetime, capturing the infinite identities and experiences of people who are born, live, work, love, build families, die, and are remembered in our borough.
1000 (Millennia) will journey deep into our borough’s history and reach far into our future to construct an imaginative, mythic Islington – an origin story for how we got here and a vision for our future.
More information about 81 (Life) and 1000 (Millennia) will be announced soon.
If you want more information about how to get involved, email community@almeida.co.uk or call 0207 288 4917
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