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Creating, connecting and building our community through the arts.

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Produced and presented by The Earls Courtiers and The National Theatre Connections Festival

“It’s ok. I know your head’s fallen off and I just want you to know everyone’s has.”

Life. Love. Family. Navigating the perils of growing up, young people have their own unique ways to figure out what it’s all about, eventually discovering we’re really all part of the same ‘Sad Club’.

A riotous piece of gig theatre, The Sad Club is musical commissioned by the National Theatre that mixes live music, with a collection of monologues and duologues from all over time and space, exploring what about living in this world stops us from being happy and how we might go about tackling those problems.

The Sad Club
By: Luke Barnes
Music by: Adam Pleeth
Directed by: Mariela Manso
Musical Direction by: Griffin Jenkins

Suitable for all those who have ever been teenagers, this play is performed by the Earl's Courtiers as part of The National Theatre Connections Festival 2024.

Saturday 23 March - 7:30pm
Sunday 24 March - 3:00pm

Where it all began…

Earl’s Court used to be a very transient, inner city area where neighbours passed each other by without a glance. Toby Brown, Keith Clancey, Jennifer Ware and a few locals decided to change all that and created our charity, The Earl’s Court Community Trust.

The trust has grown over the years and our annual projects include a hugely successful film festival, multiple theatre productions and garden concerts as well as open air film screenings for the community to enjoy.

The Earl’s Courtiers have been performing since 2012. We have numerous theatre projects on the go and are extremely lucky to have a very talented creative team. Toby Brown, Kristen Gaetz-Riva, Mariela Manso and Inge Marks regularly produce and direct sell out shows in the local gardens, pubs and church halls.
This has made a huge difference to our local community in particular families who get an opportunity to be part of our summer show or come along and enjoy the classics, everything from Shakespeare to well known musicals.

In 2014 Caroline Tod-Richardson, Sean Duffy and Toby Brown founded the Earl’s Court International Film Festival. Since then they have helped to make numerous highly successful short films, many of which have gone on to win highly acclaimed Film Festival Awards. Attendance at the festivals continues to grow year on year and it’s another highlight in the local communities social calendar.

We are always finding great ways to connect with the local community through our programme of garden concerts, special celebratory sports and cultural events, Christmas carol concerts. We look forward to seeing you at one of our events very soon!

How you can help…

Donate

As an arts charity, we rely on donations, grants and the good will in our community. We are extremely fortunate to have a team of very talented people who offer their time and energy to our creative projects for free, but there are unavoidable costs.

Renting rehearsal space, costumes, props, staging, musical direction, licencing and live bands at our shows, are just some of the costs needed to put on these productions. A donation of any kind will not only help fund our next creative project but keep the work of The Community Trust, its projects and the people who have come to love and rely on it so much going.

Our hope is to one day have enough funding to find a permanent home, a theatre, which will be a flexible space to be used by everyone in our community.

Meet our Trustees and Management Board