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We had a great time reading The Reluctant Dragon at Sax Arts Fest...
13th June 2026
2025
Premiered at Framlingham Old Theatre, September 23, 2025.
Cast: James Crawley, Helen Shand, Beth Keys-Holloway, Dean Sore,
Andrew Stannard, Quinn Richards, Steve Peck, Kathy Churchill.
Musicians: Finn Collinson, Rowan Collinson.
Stage Management: Rosie Hoare, Jasmine Richford, Josh Clements.
Crew: Dave Hermon, Alex Hermon, Dillon Gurney,
Set Design: Laurence Edwards. Costumes: Constance Mackenzie. Lighting: Paul Cook.
Production: Jenny Hall and Liz Cook.
Written by Glenn Wilhide. Directed by Jenny Hall.
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January 22nd, 2025
"An intoxicating evening"
The Scapegoat, at The Tabernacle, London W11
setting up the lighting, designed by Paul Cook, with lights by TSL
lemon trees by Suffolk Plant Centre, Pettistree.
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JUNE 2024
What a fabulous audience on 8th June!
The collection raised £470 for The Suffolk Punch Trust and SHAKE.
L to R: Xander Ridge, Malachy King, Charlie Haylock, Alex Jennings, Barbara Ashfield, (seated) Noah Bayman
Featured on ITV Anglia News, 10pm, June 8th
FEEDBACK
Really nice event.
Alex Jenning's voice in the church was superb.
Standing room only!!! A great success!
The actors really brought it to life so I could imagine everything.
Fantastic stuff! Really nicely done!
We had such a good time today...all the readers were good.
It was wonderful.
One could imagine it all so well.
SUMMER 2021
The Winter's Tale
A rehearsed reading, read live on YouTube, July 31st, 2021.
CAST
Mark Quartley, Charlotte Hamblin, Oliver Cotton,
Wendy Morgan, Leo Wringer, Maia Jemmett, Tim FitzHigham,
Barnaby Taylor, Michael Mears, Rob Myles, Pamela Miles,
Alistair Hall, Louis J. Rhone, Helen Adie, Malachy King,
Josh Fish, Andrew Mockler and Katherine MacRae.
Music by Oliver Wass and Finn Collinson.
Animated painting backdrop by Paul Benney
Directed by Jenny Caron Hall.
Well done to SHAKE Festival and to superb Winter's Tale cast
and Jenny Caron Hall for last night's moving rendition
of top Shakespeare, voiced & realised on zoom.
Remarkable technical achievement.
Allegra Productions
Tim FitzHigham’s Autolycus steals the show,
Barnaby Taylor’s Florizel was highly engaging,
while Maia Jemmett as his lover Perdita makes the most
of the relatively few lines she has. London Theatre1.
2021
A Midsummer Night's Dream was live online on 31st March 2021
Dan Stevens, Rebecca Hall
Luisa Omielan, Robert Hands, Wendy Morgan, Mark Quartley,
Joseph Blatchley, David Sibley, Daniel Bowerbank, Máiréad Tyers,
Barnaby Taylor, Louis Rudnicki, Mia Lakha, Lana Lakha,
Malachy King, Daisy Martineau, Phoebe Martineau,
Tim FitzHigham, Ed Hughes, Richard Blaine.
Directed by Jenny Caron Hall
Reviews & Audience Feedback
"Jenny Hall's emphasis on her starry reading of the play via Zoom
lay very much with the text, which looked to be in safe hands
at a rehearsal I eavesdropped on the previous week."
Matt Wolf, The New York Times.
"Dan Stevens' suave performance as Oberon was a prime asset." The Times.
"Rebecca Hall...simply seducing the screen with generous lashings
of old-fashioned sex appeal." The Arts Desk.
"Jenny Caron Hall brought a captivating reading filled to the brim with stars
to our screens last night as part of her SHAKE Festival"
Broadway World.
I found that I noticed the beauty and the poetry
of the language more than in the theatre.
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2020
23rd December 2020, at tea-time.
A Selection of Sonnets and Music
Dame Harriet Walter and Dame Janet Suzman
Wendy Morgan, Tim FitzHigham, Ben Elder,
Katherine MacRae, Barnaby Taylor.
Directed by Jenny Caron Hall
"So moving and beautiful"
"Feels like an absolute gift today to have watched you all."
"Some calm in the storm. We loved it."
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2020
November 19th 2020
The Tempest
a fully rehearsed reading, live-streamed to Youtube from zoom.
Geraldine James and Rebecca Hall
Wendy Morgan, Robert Hands, David Sibley
Barnaby Taylor, Lauryn Canny, Amesh Edireweera,
Antonio Aakeel, Tim FitzHigham, AIdan Cheng,
Ben Elder, Katherine MacRae,
Josephine Woodford, Richard Blaine.
Directed by Jenny Caron Hall
Audience Feedback
'I have never listened so carefully, and so enjoyably'
'Geraldine James's Prospero was wonderful'
'Now that's how to zoom Shakespeare!'