Farnham Rep is the company which brings
professional theatre to Farnham every year.
The company exists
to perform live, high quality professional theatre to the many thousands of theatre lovers
who live in or visit the area. Farnham Rep's audiences
travel across the region to see its performances.
The company's brief includes performing new plays,
community involvement and educational outreach in the area.
The productions are directed by professional
theatre directors and acted by professional actors, with
volunteer actors taking many of the smaller roles. Volunteers
also perform all the support activities such as set construction, publicity,
box office, refreshments and front of house.
The company
started out as the New Farnham Repertory
Company, whose main aim had been the reopening of the
Redgrave Theatre, and evolved into the New Farnham Repertory
Actors' Company. Its patrons are Hannah Gordon and Tamara
Ustinov.
The original Farnham Repertory Company
began life before World War II in a converted barn, the Castle
Theatre, whose premises are now occupied by the Zizi restaurant.
In the late '60s a fund-raising campaign was mounted for a
purpose-built theatre in the town. The result was the Redgrave
Theatre, which opened in 1973, paid for largely by public
subscription.
In 1998 the landlord, Waverley Borough
Council, closed the Redgrave following financial losses made
during its final years when a much-criticised artistic policy
failed to impress its regular audience.
The campaign for a theatre in Farnham, new or
restored Redgrave, is now being championed by
another group, the
Farnham
Theatre Association, and the
Farnham Rep focuses all its energy on producing high quality
drama in local venues and at affordable prices.
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