The School of Fine Arts: A Sitcom

The shadow of Death and the post-holiday blues stalk the studios but the staff are raring to get back to ‘work’. Leslie, the head of department, is in terminal decline and the resurrection of long buried teaching practices by insurgent students doesn’t help. Meanwhile, student Kimberley is put through the trials of tutorial, crit and professional practice seminar, wondering ‘what does it all mean’…

Please join us to celebrate the premiere screening of the pilot episode of The School of Fine Arts: A Sitcom. The screening marks the culmination of a series of workshops, rehearsals and test shoots initially with students and staff at Coventry University and later at University College London and beyond. Working with a cast and crew of friends and family using borrowed equipment and spaces, and benefitting from the good fortune of one of us having a film graduate nephew, a group of trained and untrained actors play the roles of tutors, students, a technician, an administrator and a hapless intern who are all, according to the convention of the genre, trapped within a circular situation from which they cannot escape.

Please note: the Studio Theatre has a maximum capacity of 70 and seats are unresearved. The venue is wheelchair accessible but please let us know if you have any access requirements, for example if you need an aisle seat.

The pilot is 40 minutes long with an interval mid way through. Refreshments will be available at the bar before, during and after the screening.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Bloomsbury Theatre and Studio, 15 Gordon Street, London, United Kingdom