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Dateline: 30th October, 2008
Actors Centre Is 30 Julie Walters, patron of the Actors Centre, will be be joining in the celebrations of the organisation's 30th birthday at a party on Sunday 2nd November.
“We are delighted that Julie will be able to join us to kick-start our anniversary festivities,” says Artistic Director Matthew Lloyd.
She will be joined by founding members of the Actors Centre, Clive Swift and Sheila Hancock and William Hobbs, as well as other supporters including Richard Wilson, Nigel Planer, James Dreyfus, Faith Brook, Helen Lederer, Henry Goodman and writer Margaret Drabble.
Fiona Shaw will also be in attendance for the announcement of her new role as patron of the Tristan Bates Theatre, the Actors Centre’s studio space dedicated to cutting edge work.
The Actors Centre began its life as a conversation on a couch at a party. Clive Swift, Sheila Hancock and actor and director John Alderton discussed with leading fight director William Hobbs the need for a place where actors could connect with each other informally, a place where they could learn new skills and brush up on old ones in-between and while working.
Today the Centre runs over 1700 classes and has a membership of approximately 2000. It has just undergone a half million pound refurbishment to improve disabled access and install air-conditioning throughout the building.
The Actors Centre’s 30th Birthday Party will start at 6.30pm on Sunday 2nd November at their home at 1a Tower St, Covent Garden.
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