I hope you are all safe and well and that you have adapted to our new way of working from home. It has been a challenge for many but great technology has enabled us to stay in touch and I look forward to seeing many of your faces through various online meetings.

While we wait for the majority of cinemas around the world to re-open, we are pleased to offer a positive story of Trafalgar projects reaching audiences in Asia.

The Trafalgar Releasing team have been busy working to bring two projects to cinemas in South Korea, where cinemas are still operating.

Stagecoach Performing arts launched a brand-new product, called ‘stagecoachathome’, offering Stagecoach students around the world virtual bite-sized sessions that they can work through alongside their new routine of homeschooling.

Dave Bradbury has been fundraising whilst on furlough and raised an amazing £1,500 for his local NHS Trust.

Trafalgar Releasing in collaboration with Eagle Rock Entertainment, have announced the global cinema release of The Cure – Anniversary 1978-2018 Live in Hyde Park London, celebrating 40 years of The Cure, cementing them as one of the defining rock bands of music history.

The film, slated for release from Thursday 11 July, sees The Cure take the stage on a perfect July evening in London’s Hyde Park to deliver a set of a songs celebrating four decades of music making.

Happy New Year and welcome to the January edition of Ensemble. I hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas break and I’d like to thank all of our staff who worked over the festive period.

By Rosemary Squire

Paula Baker was born in Guildford in 1964 and grew up in Kent. She began her career as a legal secretary in Maidstone at the dawn of computerisation. She and her husband Kevin moved to Woking in early 1992 and Paula and I started working together soon after.

We’re delighted with the news that Alex Kingston (ER, Doctor Who) is set to star in the award-winning comedy, Admissions, from the writer of acclaimed hit Bad Jews, Joshua Harmon. Following its hugely successful run at New York’s Lincoln Centre Theater, Admissions will open at Trafalgar Studios on 28 February for a strictly limited season until 25 May, before embarking on a UK tour.

Following the opening tour dates in Brighton, the cast of The Rocky Horror Show took to the road and headed north for the next stop on the new UK tour, the Manchester Opera House.

Starring Corrie favourite Beverley Callard as The Narrator, the cast tore the house down with an electrifying first night performance, in front of Manchester media, VIPs and local celebs from Coronation Street and Hollyoaks.

The team from Trafalgar Releasing picked up an incredible four awards the Event Cinema Association’s slate day at VUE West End earlier this month.

The King and I: From The London Palladium was awarded Highest Performing Theatre Title of 2018, whilst the honour of Highest Performing Music Title of 2018 went to BTS’s Burn the Stage: The Movie.