300 Friends

A few photos from the Hackney Wicked performances

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:36:59 +0100

A few photos from the Hackney Wicked performances

Please take a second to read the wonderful review of 300 friends at the Hackney Wicked Festival.

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:31:42 +0100

Please take a second to read the wonderful review of 300 friends at the Hackney Wicked Festival.

300 Friends Opening Night

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:33:00 +0100

It’s here folks! Tonight is the Opening show for 300 Friends at the Hackney Wicked Festival.

All cast and crew are ridiculously excited for our first site-specific take on our treasured play.

Thanks to Lauren and Tom for letting us take over your wonderful flat and transforming it into a thing of dreams - a real life castle no less!

If you still haven’t got tickets but are interested, time to act! Just email 300friends@gmail.com to reserve a place.

There are still a few tickets left for tonight, and some for Saturday 2.30pm and 5pm and Sunday 2.30pm and 5pm.

Look forward to seeing you all there - see you at our 300 Friends bar for a post-show drink!

Its happening this weekend!! Tickets and Directions...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:21:26 +0100

We really hope you enjoy the performance and get some time to look round the rest of the festival.

Performances are;

Friday 30^th July 7.30pm

Saturday 31^st July 2.30pm / 5pm / 7.30pm

Sunday 1^st August 2.30pm / 5pm / 7.30pm

We will be meeting you 15 minutes before these start times at the gates of the Ironworks (directions below) where we will be doing tickets and taking you in the building for your free drink and the performance will begin…

Visit 300 Friends on Facebook by clicking here!

Please also note, we will be running a bar after each show!

Directions to Dace Road, Fish Island. The Ironworks are number 58 Dace Road, E3 2NX

TUBE AND TRAINS

Closest stations are Hackney Wick on the Overground or Pudding Mill Lane on the DLR.

DRIVING

There is a lot of free, street parking all across Hackney Wick

BUS

from oxford circus / liverpool street / bethnal green;

#8 towards bow church, get off at Parnell road and walk over bridge, left up the hill (keeping yellow storage on your left) brow of the hill take a right into a gated path called ‘The Greenway’, dead ahead will be a flight of steps, down steps, take a right, this is dace road, all the way to the end, on right will be the iron works gates.

via clapton / hackney

#388 to hackney wick, terminates at trowbridge road near the overground station, need to walk down chapman road/ wansbeck road or via whitepost lane down the canal and into fish island, dace road is off stour road / smeed road / breem street.

from stoke newington

#276 towards west ham, starts from SN rectory road to monier road, get off and walk down hill to roundabout, straight across (2nd exit) is dace road, take right hand pavement and follow road until you reach the iron works gates at the end.

from kings cross / Islington / dalston

#30 via balls pond road, terminates at hackney wick eastway, walk back down the road to junction, keep left, take left turn and you are at the bus terminus for the #388, follow directions as above.

from mile end

#339 take from diagonally opposite mile end tube exit on grove road, towards wick lane / autumn street terminus; you are in front of the big yellow storage, walk right up the hill and right onto greenway steps as for #8 route (see above)

from DLR / Stratford

take the DLR from stratford one stop to pudding mill lane, exit and take a left out of station across the road and into the olympic building site. follow the route up the hill and along the greenway, the olympics will be on your right, walk to the end and take the steps down to dace road as for the #8 bus route (see above)

THERE WILL BE SIGNS, BUT EVERYONE IN FISH ISLAND IS NICE; ASK FOR HELP IF YOU GET LOST!!!

300 Friends will be performed at the Ironworks in Hackney Wick (58 Dace Road) - Click here for a map -

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0100

300 Friends will be performed at the Ironworks in Hackney Wick (58 Dace Road) - Click here for a map -

300 Friends on Facebook - 1 week to go.

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:18:10 +0100

300 Friends on Facebook - 1 week to go.

Rehearsal photos - only 2 weeks to go!

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:42:00 +0100

Rehearsal photos - only 2 weeks to go!

Photo

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:37:59 +0100

300 FRIENDS IN HACKNEY WICKED!

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:54:10 +0100

Site Specific Theatre piece comes to Hackney Wicked Art Festival

300 Friends, first performed as part of The Albany Director Lab series, supported by the Young Vic Young Directors Scheme, shows at Hackney Wicked Art Festival.

‘We’re all going to die, you know. You should take comfort from that’

Sometimes it seems that the day-to-day takes over from the goals we once had. We get a job to tide us over, our expectations diminish and the trivial becomes disproportionately important. We mortgage our lives on fame and the quick fix, terrified of not making a ‘success’ of our lives, or finding our place.

Maybe we will never be able to change the world. Are we paralysed by our own pressure? Are our dreams unrealistic? Or is this just how growing up goes?

THE HACKNEY WICKED ARTS FESTIVAL
FRIDAY 30^TH JULY – SUNDAY 1^ST AUGUST 2010

A site specific performance, the show will take you on a journey through the 300 Friends house

FRIDAY (Preview) 7.30pm

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY (3 performances daily) 2.30pm,5pm, 7.30pm

TICKETS £4 For Show and FREE pre-party drink

For tickets please email 300friends@gmail.com with your preferred date and time.

Meet 15 minutes prior to performance outside The Ironworks Building (58 Dace Road, Fish Island, E3 2NX) where your journey will begin…

New Performance Dates as part of renowned festival

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:38:00 +0000

WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

‘300 Friends’ is set to be performed at The Hackney Wicked Arts Festival on the 30th July to the 1st August in London. The play will be performed as a site specific piece in a very special location…

http://www.hackneywicked.com

Photographed by A R Harveyhttp://arharvey.com And some more...

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:29:18 +0000

'Routine'

Final rehearsals

Jeff and the centrepiece light

'Procrastination'

Photographed by A R Harvey
http://arharvey.com

And some more photos of the play and dress rehearsals/set building

Photographed by A R Harveyhttp://arharvey.com Photos of 300...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:51:05 +0000

Ella and Tristan

Jon and Jess

Rosie and Tristan

Fay

Photographed by A R Harvey
http://arharvey.com

Photos of 300 Friends from the Dress Rehearsal, Tuesday 2nd March 2010

SET PHOTOS Photographed by A R Harveyhttp://arharvey.com It...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:06:00 +0000

300 Friends Photographed by A R Harvey

300 Friends Photographed by A R Harvey

300 Friends Photographed by A R Harvey

SET PHOTOS

Photographed by A R Harvey
http://arharvey.com

It seems like a very very long time ago that Jeff and myself went for a coffee in Soho to discuss the play..out of that wonderful evening came the first sketches and ideas for the set. Not only did the set need to look beautiful, we wanted it to work in conjunction with the lighting, it needed to represent many different areas in a house, but very much a dreamlike and allagorical house, recognisable and yet removed from normality. Our mission was to build a set which the actors could also play and interact with, that it worked as another character and helped to tell the story of ‘300 Friends.’ This is what we finished with in the intimate studio of The Albany. For further info of Jeff’s screen and lighting work, follow the link further down the page to his blog.

300 Friends Soundtrack, composed and performed by Tom Di Sapia

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:31:00 +0000

300 Friends Soundtrack, composed and performed by Tom Di Sapia:

Tom composed and performed the soundtrack to 300 friends live every night. The result was a beautifully cohesive and organic soundscape ”For 300 friends he has taken inspiration form beautifully simple melodies, industrial sounds and mathematical patterns; creating a sound scape which incorporates the classical fused with the modern.”

Anna's blog - lots of photos from the play

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:25:58 +0000

Anna's blog - lots of photos from the play

A few rehearsal moments from the final week

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:02:00 +0000

Anna (playing Fay)

Rob (playing Jon)

'Life is over if your not on TV'

Lauren, Tom and Susan..The creative crew

'To Sleep, Perchance to Dream'

'Everyone is Heading for Greatness'

A few rehearsal moments from the final week

London Particulars Blog

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:29:01 +0000

London Particulars Blog:

This blog is wonderful and written by a good friend of mine, Tom Wright. I like this entry especially as 300 friends gets a mention and it is all about Deptford, where the Albany Theatre is. Very informative and very witty!

300 Friends opens tomorrow, 7.15 at The Albany.

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:28:00 +0000

300 Friends opens tomorrow, 7.15 at The Albany.

The Albany Theatre website - for tickets and info

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:22:49 +0000

The Albany Theatre website - for tickets and info

Final Week

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:16:00 +0000

This time next week, the final performance will be over, and on Monday, we get into the theatre to start all of the technical rehearsals. My car is currently the play storage room…housing everything from rotting cardboard fruit boxes to Bernard the bear and a copy of ‘Men are from Mars…’ Thought it would be a good time to thank everyone who has helped us so so much through the last few months, with creative input, fundraising, support and cups of tea. A huge thank you. Really hope you can make it and you enjoy and engage with the play..would love your feedback so do get in touch…