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Trainee production assistant - London | Opportunities @ Creative Access Closing date: Sunday 24th August 2025 at 11.59pm Salary: Training allowance equivalent to London Living Wage Duration: 12 months Working hours: 40 hours pe

The Production Assistant role is hired through Creative Access as a traineeship, with the training allowance equivalent to London Living Wage. You can find more about this at the links below:

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JOIN THE TEAM 📣

We’re looking for a new Marketing Officer and Trainee Production Assistant to join the OT this September.

MARKETING OFFICER - applications close 18 August
TRAINEE PRODUCTION ASSISTANT (Creative Access) - applications close 24 August

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Theatre: Poor Clare by Chiara Atik (Orange Tree, Richmond) Peter Graystone enjoys a Franciscan-themed play in Richmond

My review of the wonderfully funny (but awkwardly challenging) Poor Clare at @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social is in the Church Times today. www.churchtimes.co.uk//articles/20....

#PoorClare | Production Trailer

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5⭐ Richmond Nub News
5⭐ Curtain Call Reviews
4⭐ The Guardian
4⭐ The Stage
4⭐ WhatsOnStage
4⭐ The Arts Desk
4⭐ London Theatre 1
4⭐ The Reviews Hub
4⭐ All That Dazzles

🎟️ Book now: bit.ly/3YZLBs2

If you haven't seen "Poor Clare" @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social go! Brilliant, funny, true (kinda), and with an important message from 12th century. If you can't get to Richmond, it's available online in August orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/poo...
Arsema Thomas is terrific.

Brick wall with OT in big red capitals left, poster for Poor Clare depicting two lead actors in a stained-glass idiom right.

Poor Clare matinée at @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social. Brilliantly funny, relevant & subversive, exploring a serious, Christian, anti-capitalist thesis. Super cast. Arsema Thomas excellent. Freddy Carter & Anushka Chakravarti a joy to watch. See it!

#Bridgerton #Culture #ShadowAndBone #TheatreSky

Poor Clare at @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social today: a touching, humorous & ultimately hard-hitting 'Clueless'-style take on the story of St Clare. Excellent performances & well-worth a trip to Richmond.

Poor Clare at the Orange Tree Theatre: drips with acerbic humour Read our review of Poor Clare at the Orange Tree Theatre, London: European premiere of Chiara Atik’s superbly subversive satire based on the lives of Saints Clare and Francis

★★★★ Review: Poor Clare – European premiere of Chiara Atik’s superbly subversive satire based on the lives of Saints Clare and Francis 👇

Poor Clare at @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social is ridiculously funny. St Francis and St Clare as a Hollywood Gen-Z rom-com. But deeply respectful of what they stood for. A soul-restoring joy from beginning to (slightly over-emphatic TBH) end. Full review in @churchtimes.bsky.social next week.

🙌 We're very excited to announce that Freddy Carter and Arsema Thomas will be joining us for an exclusive panel at our OT Under 30 Night on Fri 25 July!

🍻 Under 30? Grab a £15 ticket + get a free drink + the post-show talk, chaired by the OT's Jess Haygarth.

🔗 orangetreetheatre.co.uk/ot-under-30

🍊 We’re proud to be part of the @rampsonthemoon.bsky.social 'Change Programme' - joining cultural leaders across the UK to challenge ableism and embed anti-ableist practice at the heart of our organisation.

♿️ This is more than policy. It’s about culture, leadership, and action - changing for good.

🎟️ Our 2025-6 season is now on sale 🎟️

Grab tickets for a star-studded set of shows, coming soon to the intimate, award-winning Orange Tree 🍊

🔗 Book at orangetreetheatre.co.uk, or call us on 020 8940 3633

Orange Tree Writers Collective - Orange Tree Theatre Welcome to the Orange Tree Theatre's current Writers Collective: Lydia Sabatini, Anne Odeke, Oli Higginson, Ric Renton, Kelly Jones and Clarisse Makundul.

✍️ For over a decade, the OT Writers’ Collective has brought together a group of playwrights to spend a year at the OT to share practice, develop new ideas, and become engaged in the work of their theatre throughout the year.

Find out more: orangetreetheatre.co.uk/writers-coll...

🍊✍️ Introducing our 2025 Writers’ Collective!

We’re delighted to welcome Hassan Abdulrazzak, Azan Ahmed, Martha Watson Allpress, Catherine Dyson, Ben Weatherill, and for the first time, the Collective includes a translator, Lucy Phelps, in association with
@bcltuea.bsky.social.

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We're so glad you enjoyed your visit - sorry for the tears!

As a teenager I was completely undone by Rattigan’s (then brand new) In Praise of Love. Of course, 50 years later I have a maturer, more worldly-wise attitude to these things. Like hell I do! Sobbed. Brilliant. You owe me a packet of tissues @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social

Our new season is here! From major revivals to bold, new writing, the 2025/26 season is giving drama, laughter, love triangles, and unforgettable moments.

🔗 Find out more here: ow.ly/mvGG50W8eUS

📅 Priority booking has now started. On general sale 25 June, 12pm

🙏🏽 Another excellent @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social production ‘In Praise of Love’ - yet again showcasing the often underrated Terence Rattigan - also recommend his ‘Deep Blue Sea’ at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 🎭

Ciao 👋

We're excited to announce the full cast of #PoorClare!

Joining the previously announced Arsema Thomas and Freddy Carter are Anushka Chakravarti, Hermione Gulliford, Liz Kettle, George Ormerod, and Jacoba Williams.

📅12 Jul – 9 Aug
💥OTU30 Night – Fri 25 Jul
🔗 bit.ly/3YZLBs2

In Praise of Love, Orange Tree Theatre review - subdued production of Rattigan's study of loving concealment Terence Rattigan's rehabilitation – some might almost say deification – as a leading 20th century playwright is complete. As well as academic studies, biographies and numerous highly respected revival...

IN PRAISE OF LOVE @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social - A subdued production of #TerenceRattigan's study of loving concealment, though unspoken emotion flows through this late work - review @heathermneill.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/prai...

In Praise of Love - Orange Tree Theatre - North West End UK There’s something truly magnetic about a play that holds you at the edge of your seat, slowly pulling you deeper into its world with every passing moment. In Praise of Love does just that, creating a ...

#REVIEW - In Praise of Love at @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social "a rich, emotionally intelligent play that speaks to the quiet complexities of long-term love" northwestend.com/in-praise-of... #Theatresky #London

Review: In Praise of Love, Orange Tree Theatre - Everything Theatre Rattigan’s late-career masterpiece about secrets and survival enjoys a faultless revival in another hit for one of London's most exciting theatres.

#Review: In Praise of Love @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social‬ ★★★★★

"A faultless revival in another hit for one of London's most exciting theatres."

#theatre #drama #offwestend #Richmond #theatresky

everything-theatre.co.uk/2025/06/revi...

Here's your first look at #InPraiseOfLove in rehearsals 👀

Claire Price and Dominic Rowan star in Rattigan's penultimate work - a perceptive and deeply moving drama about life, death, love, and truth.

📆 24 May - 5 July
🎟 orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/in-...
📸 Ellie Kurttz

Priority booking begins today. On general sale Friday 23 May.

POOR CLARE by Chiara Atik, directed by Blanche McIntyre
12 Jul - 5 Aug

We're thrilled to announce lead casting for our upcoming production of Chiara Atik's #PoorClare.

Arsema Thomas (Queen Charlotte) makes her stage debut opposite Freddy Carter (Shadow and Bone) as Francis.

A photograph of a play in performance A young man wearing dark trousers and a dark jumper over a stripy shirt sits on a 50s-style armchair with a rug over the back, watching a woman striking a dance-like pose, arms outstretched, looking upwards, one leg on a stool. She wears brown tweed culottes and a patterned shirt; her red hair is in a messy bun. Behind her there is a grand piano with a small dolls house on top and, behind that, a drinks trolley with bottles, decanters, and books. The floor is pale blue carpet.

Ben and Imo @markravenhill.bsky.social dir Erica Whyman @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social is a very good play & a very good show, sharp, funny, tender, polemical, passionate, full of big ideas & big feelings. Glorious performances by Samuel Barnett & Victoria Yeates (dance!) & wonderful period clothes.

‘Ben and Imo’ was brilliant at the @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social last night. Super to take supporters, meet the playwright and learn more about the creation of ‘Gloriana’

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Collecting a new venue - @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social - for ‘Ben and Imo’. Looking forward!

Samuel Barnett and Victoria Yeates as Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst, on the programme of 'Ben and Imo' by Mark Ravenhill. Close-up of an affectionate embrace, her forehead to his left cheek. Both have their eyes closed, his left hand rests on her shoulder.

I loved 'Ben and Imo'. Authentic portrayal of two wildly different personalities, brought together by an absolute devotion to making the best possible music. Brilliant writing by @Markravenhill.bsky.social, stunning performances from Samuel Barnett & Victoria Yeates
@orangetreetheatre.bsky.social