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QUESTION TIME FOR BRIAN
Last week, cinema audiences celebrated the return of Monty Python’s Life of Brian to the big screen to mark the film’s 40th Anniversary. Presented in glorious standard definition and mono-sound, Monty Python delivered a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood’s depiction of all things biblical with their 1979 feature film Life of Brian.
TRAFALGAR RELEASING ANNOUNCE ROGER WATERS FILM
Trafalgar Releasing recently announced the global acquisition of a new film from Roger Waters based on his critically acclaimed 2017/2018 world tour, US + THEM.
Waters performed a total of 156 shows to 2.3 million people throughout North America, Australia & New Zealand, Europe, Russia, Latin America and Mexico, opening in May 2017 in Kansas City, Missouri, and ending in December 2018 in Monterrey, Mexico.
STAGE DEBUT AWARDS 2019
Trafalgar Entertainment and Stagecoach Performing Arts will once again be sponsoring awards at The Stage Debut Awards in 2019.
The only awards programme specifically designed to encourage and sustain the stars of tomorrow, The Stage Debut Awards celebrates breakthrough theatre actors and creatives across the UK.
HOME SWEET HOME!
Colleagues from Stagecoach Performing Arts held their first training session for new school managers at the new Woking office last week and the meeting rooms – Spotlight, Light Box and Projector – were given the thumbs up!
Mike Broad, International Franchise Manager, said: “The rooms are really good to work with, the new office environment helps create a professional feel and overall we were really pleased with how the first training session went.
THE UNIFYING POWER OF MUSIC
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH: CHASE DEMMERS
WELCOME – MARCH 2019
Welcome to the March edition of Ensemble.
Starting this month, we are launching a brand new jobs bulletin page which you can link directly to from the newsletter. You’ll find the link in the right hand column underneath the submit a story section. The page will be updated regularly with vacancies across the entire group including job opportunities at Stagecoach and Trafalgar Releasing.
VISIONS AND VALUES
A big thank you from Karin Gartzke and Jessamy Hadley to everyone involved in the very lively Vision and Values workshops this month. Just shows what can happen when creative minds from across Trafalgar Entertainment get together!
Defining our common purpose and the values that guide the way we work allowed us to explore the many things we have in common.
NEW OFFICE MOVE COUNTDOWN!
Here are the latest exclusive pics from our new office in Woking. It’s just over a week now until moving day and we can’t wait! The building project is all but finished apart from snagging, signage and IT installation.
Colleagues from Stagecoach and the West Byfleet office were invited to view the office last week and feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.
THE GRINNING MAN’S MARVELLOUS MAGICAL ACT
In June 2018 Andy Serkis and Tom Morris directed a full motion capture of Trafalgar Entertainment and Bristol Old Vic’s hit West End show The Grinning Man at the Imaginarium studios in Ealing. The capture was funded by Magic Leap in order to create content for an Augmented Reality experience using the pioneering Magic Leap glasses.