Urinetown Blog – Week 11

Dear Reader Welcome back to Urinetown!:) My name is Bernadett, a newbie at Saint Monica’s Players and I am presenting the weekly blog for last week. In the past 11 weeks I had the pleasure of working with very talented and enthusiastic people. SMP is a great community and a truly welcoming one. We have […]

Career Day at the WFFOT2016

This year SMP return to the Waltham Forest Festival of Theatre. We are back with “Career Day”, another brilliant script by last years “Original Writing” award winner Mr Paul Levy. Congratulations to Paul who has won further awards since and even had his script published! #awesome Direction & Production this year are by our very own […]

Urinetown Blog – Week 3

This weeks blog comes from one of our new members, François. Who, as the name suggests has joined us all the way from France. Take it away François; Urineville, c’est parti! This is not a surprise but I am so utterly excited to have been given the opportunity to play two parts in the show. First […]

Urinetown Read Through & Auditions Next Week!

Our Read through for Urinetown will be Monday 1st February at Cannon House, St Monica’s Social Club Cannon House 6 Cannon Hill London N14 7HG at 8pm On the night our production team Director, Warren McWilliams, Choreographer, Jo Bakhurst and Musical Director, Mike Benyon, will talk you through their plans for Urinetown. We’ll also read throught […]

Sleeping Beauty Blog – Tech Run & Dress

We’ve reached the end of our rehearsals and Wednesday night will be our first performance in front of an audience. Monday started off early as our lighting designer Matt arrived at 10 am to start plotting the show ready for the tech run later that evening. Alex our stage manager wasn’t far behind and with […]

Our Pantomime for 2017 will be…

SMP are very pleased to announce that after much consideration we’ve chosen our pantomime for January 2017. We’re very excited to share it with you. For the first time in the groups history we will be performing ‘FROSTED – A Family Pantomime.’ The story tells the tale of two Princesses as one struggles to come to […]

Sleeping Beauty Blog – Week 13

Hi, I’m Mike Benyon and I am musical director for SMP’s production of Sleeping Beauty. Doing panto is not a new thing for this old stager. In fact, having joined SMP in 1992 this is my 24th successive year being involved with panto, either as musical director or as a member of the band. So […]

SMP’s Halloween Bash

  We hope you all had a spooktastic Halloween this weekend, folks. We at SMP had a ghoulishly glorious time at our Inaugural “SMP All Hollows Eve Party”. Thanks to a lot of hard work from our super Social Team, the scout hut was turned into a creepy cave full of lots of freaky fun… […]