20th to 23rd November 2024
at the Adrian Mann Theatre, Ewell, KT17 3DR to be directed by Dick Bower
The Night of the Iguana is a classic piece of theatre by acclaimed American playwright, Tennessee Williams, that exposes the “heart of the human condition”. Originally performed in 1961 on Broadway with a cast that included Bette Davis and Shelley Winters, it won Williams his fourth New York Drama Critics Award and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play. It was turned into an Oscar-winning film in 1964, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr.
The play has had several revivals in London including one that Richard Eyre directed at the National Theatre in 1992 and, most recently, another in 2019 at the West End’s Noel Coward Theatre starring Clive Owen. Now SADC will bring you this sultry but powerful psychological drama with its underlying themes of sexual desire, alienation and loneliness.
Set in a run-down Mexican hotel on the edge of the jungle, a very disparate group of people, all exquisitely rendered through Williams’s “lambent, fluid, malleable and colloquially melodious” writing, comes together in the heat of the tropics. The three main characters have something in common – they have reached a climacteric in their troubled lives. They grapple with the prospects for their futures but will the changes set them free from their pasts? The iguana of the title is a metaphor, a creature captured and tied up by the hotel staff, desperate for release. But, for our characters, is freedom what they want? Or is it too daunting?
Tickets are now on sale.
20th March to 22nd March 2025
at St Mary’s Church, Beddington, Church Rd, Wallington SM6 7NH
Written and directed by Ella McDonnell & Dave Thompson.
Auditions will be held at St Mary’s Church, Beddington in the church hall from 8.00pm to 10.00pm on Thursday 12th December. 2024. If you would like to receive an audition notice and are not yet on our mailing list then please use the Contact Us page of this website.
In the year which sees the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe SADC is collaborating with historians on an exciting production to explore how the lives of Carshalton residents were affected by the war.
SADC members, Ella McDonnell and David Thompson, have worked with the historical researchers, Margaret Thomas and Beverley Walker, to research the lives of Carshalton residents who have left records of their experiences.
The historical researchers are working on the World War II project, Fight for Freedom, Carshalton and Wallington’s War which is supported by the St Helier Charitable Foundation.
This production has been created by Ella and David based on records which have survived, either in diaries or written recollections, and aims to bring to life what it was like to live in Carshalton in those difficult and dangerous years. It will be a celebration of the grit and determination of the people of the borough who survived despite the bombs and deprivations, but it will also be a tribute to those local residents who were not so lucky and who did not survive, whether at home or abroad.
The production will tell all these stories through monologues, reproductions of the public announcements, radio broadcasts and musical entertainment to provide the backdrop to the stories of the people whose lives and experiences we will explore. It promises to be a very special production in an important anniversary year.
We will remember them.
4th to 6th June 2025
at the CryerArts Centre, 39 High St, Carshalton SM5 3BB
To be directed by Karen Broadbent.
Kilnsea, East Yorkshire. Angie and Lauren are closing up the café for another winter; the birds have gone south and taken the tourists with them. The last visitor is Dennis, stopping by for his pasty and beans. But there’s another arrival – one that’s unforeseen and life-changing for them all.
Big Big Sky is a beautifully tender play by Tom Wells, who was originally from Kilnsea. The play explores nature’s influence on love, friendship and family – the belief that anyone who’s lost can be found, even in the remotest of places. It was premiered at Hampstead Theatre in July 2021, directed by Tessa Walker.
‘A play to make your spirit soar… a tender story of love, grief and family that plays wittily with expectations around gender and age… leaves you with your faith in human kindness refreshed’
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19th to 22nd November 2025
at the Adrian Mann Theatre, Ewell, KT17 3DR
To be directed by Sheila Carr
March 2026
at the Adrian Mann Theatre, Ewell, KT17 3DR
To be directed by Peter Bramwell.
November 2026
at the Adrian Mann Theatre, Ewell, KT17 3DR
Director to be advised