Kate Bannister

A splendid central performance illuminates a play full of humour that also smuggles in deeper considerations on the character of art in a changing world

Jack Studio Theatre has announced their upcoming production of Stewart Pringle’s award-winning play, Trestle. Trestle is a warm hearted, funny and moving look at two retired people brought together each week as they fold away a trestle table in their community hall. A bittersweet comic drama about later life, love and community. And bananas.

Sometimes the smallest of spaces can tell the biggest of stories and that's the case with this perfectly judged adaptation of the much-loved fairytale.

Lifeboat tells the story of two survivors of the wartime sinking of the SS City of Benares, torpedoed en route to Canada, evacuating children from the UK.

It is 1832. Wolves roam England, terrorising the countryside in greater numbers than ever before.

Following runs at the Edinburgh Festival, a UK tour and an acclaimed London run, this tour-de-force show returns by popular demand to the King's Head Theatre in 2017.

It's the morning after New Labour's victory in 1997. Things Can Only Get Better, except for a group of pool attendants struggling to keep the gates open.

Arrow Media and Seabright Productions present OLIVER REED: WILD THING, a new play by Mike Davis and Rob Crouch, directed by Kate Bannister and performed by Rob Crouch, at The Ambassadors Theatre. The show will run Tuesdays 1 & 8 April 2014 at 8pm.

Arrow Media and Seabright Productions present OLIVER REED: WILD THING, a new play by Mike Davis and Rob Crouch, directed by Kate Bannister and performed by Rob Crouch, at The Ambassadors Theatre. The show will run Tuesdays 1 & 8 April 2014 at 8pm.

This Autumn four striking revivals visit the Jack, followed in December by the in-house Christmas production. On the eve of its 50th anniversary, DogOrange presents James Saunders' lost absurdist classic, A SCENT OF FLOWERS. Hailed by The Times as 'a unique, an unforgettable experience', it introduced a young Ian McKellen to the West End audience, and led to his first acting award.

Arrow Media, Skullduggery and Seabright Productions present Oliver Reed: Wild Thing by Mike Davis and Rob Crouch, performed by Rob Crouch, and directed by Kate Bannister. It will receive its London premiere at the St. James Theatre Studio with performances beginning today, July 30, prior to an official opening Aug. 1, for a run through Aug. 18.

Arrow Media, Skullduggery and Seabright Productions present Oliver Reed: Wild Thing by Mike Davis and Rob Crouch, performed by Rob Crouch, and directed by Kate Bannister. It will receive its London premiere at the St. James Theatre Studio with performances beginning July 30, prior to an official opening Aug. 1, for a run through Aug. 18.

Jack Studio Theatre presents its Write Now 3 Annual Playwrighting Festival April 7 - April 28, 2012. See the festival's listings below:

Blue Apple Theatre presents Hamlet, adaptation by William Jessop, touring production for Hampshire and the South of England in May 2012.