About us:

Next Stage is one of the UK’s most innovative and adventurous non-professional theatre companies. Based
in the city of Bath, a World Heritage site located in the West of England, Next Stage was founded in 1994
and has established a reputation for its award winning drama focusing on 20th and 21st century plays.

Key attributes of the company are:

• Celebrated our 15th anniversary last year (2009).
• Innovative and challenging productions, see our past shows.
• Our own dedicated 100 seater theatre in the round - The Mission Theatre.
• Theatre Supper events, combining drama and convivial dining.
• Over 50 members on the team plus a flourishing youth group.
• Touring appearances at the Minack Open Air Theatre on the cliffs at Porthcurno, Cornwall as well as to the Workshop Theatre, New York and The Jermyn Street Theatre, London.
• School performances and ‘Page-to-Stage’ workshops linked to exam texts.
• Theatre in Education Workshops, where Next Stage actors take drama to local schools.

Being Part Of The Company:

Below are some quotes from actors and crew within Next Stage, describing what it is is like to be part of the company.

“With Next Stage: On Stage - great plays with talented casts and directed with vision. Back Stage - a dedicated and clever crew team. Off Stage - warm and generous friends.”

“However small one’s contribution, it’s great to be part of a team that is so friendly, so creative and so successful. Next Stage never stands still.”

”… and in his time a man may play many parts – I certainly have in my short time with Next Stage.”

“If only my poor old mum could see me now! Support to a band of mummers/strolling players/rude mechanicals; but it’s such fun, Ma!”

“Next Stage has a ‘family feel’ to it – I’ve played two mothers (“All My Sons” and “Mother Courage”) and a brother (Valverde in “The Royal Hunt of the Sun”).”

“The sky’s the limit and everyone’s a star.”

“Thank you Next Stage for sending me round the world as an American longshoreman, an Equadorian interpreter, a Russian peasant, a French major domo, an East-German villager, and five Italian brothers in Bath, Bristol and Cornwall.”

” ‘All the world’s a stage …’ which should be daunting but Next Stage looks after its family with friendship, support, encouragement, great teamwork, and terrific productions. I’m Next Stage struck!”