Theatre Exchange

Theatre Exchange involves weekly workshops for over 50s to create new material through improvisation and script development. Previous shows have toured to lunch and social clubs and sheltered accomodation in Hackney, as well as being broadcast via Hackney Social Radio.

Theatre Exchange involves weekly workshops for over 50s to create new material through improvisation and script development.

Previous shows have toured to lunch and social clubs and sheltered accommodation in Hackney and Newham, with plans to visit Enfield.

We are currently running weekly in-person workshops every Monday from 4:30 - 6:15pm at Immediate Theatre's Studio Space. Workshops explore improvisation, performing practices and games to produce work with potential to perform.

Our work has seen the production of various plays, the Hackney Social Radio and Hackney Social Audio podcasts and is now also involved in Immediate Theatre's Voices of Change - a project that preserves and celebrates the stories of Hackney and Newham.

Read more about Voices of Change

Key Information

Day

Mondays

Time

4:30 - 6:15pm

Location

Immediate Theatre

Unit 1, the Sidings

10 Andre Street

E8 2AA

Watch our 2023 performance of 'Second Chance'
  • Second Chance Performance 2023
  • Second Chance Performance 2023
  • Second Chance Performance 2023

Metro Article 2023

‘The best role I ever had was Cinderella at the age of 74 [in the 2018 panto Cindy Rella] which was a great thrill. That was a fun thing to do, at St Joseph’s hospice, somebody said to me, who happened to be in the toilets as well after the show, “Did you know that’s the first pantomime I was able to see because I couldn’t get out?” I’ll remember that forever.’ - Janet Evans

Read our full article in the Metro