It has been a frustrating year for Farnham’s Redgrave Theatre Trust.
Its plans for a celebratory Redgrave Theatre 50th Anniversary Exhibition in Brightwells Yard have been delayed again until the winter due to the lack of take-up of the retail units.
Anne Cooper Chairman, said
Some personal circumstances of FTA Directors have also meant delays to newsletters and arrangements for the 2024 AGM.
However, we are now pressing ahead, and we have earmarked Sunday, 13th October, 2 pm—5.30 pm for members’ and supporters’ diaries. The agenda will follow shortly.
This year, we have have decided the meeting will be more informal, which we hope will be enjoyed as a social ‘get-together’.
Daniel Hall is at 2 Long Garden Way, Farnham GU9 7HY. The nearest car park is by Waitrose, free on Sundays.
The organisation would welcome offers of help and refreshments on the day. Two Raffle tickets for Mamma Mia at the Novello Theatre, London, are available to whet your appetites!
The Redgrave Theatre, named after Sir Michael Redgrave, was a theatre in Farnham from 1974 to 1998. It had regular repertory seasons and staged a variety of plays and musical productions until financial difficulties forced it to close. Now demolished, the surrounding site is under redevelopment. Sir Micheal Redgrave was a former Master at Cranleigh School.
In January 2018, the Redgrave Theatre was finally approved for demolition. It was demolished to make room for the “Brightwells Yard development.”
Having attended several productions at the Redgrave in the 80’s , it was clear that they were not able to stage the larger and more financially successful productions that the Yvonne-Arnaud theatre in Guildford were able to produce.
Finally, it was decided to close the Redgrave and it was boarded-up many years before being demolished to make way for the East Street Regeneration (now called Brightwells Yard) Waverley Borough Council did attempt to run it as a cinema for a while, but the emergence of a professionally run Maltings finally put paid to that. If there is to be any future for Theatre in Farnham, Perhaps the the Redgrave Theatre Trust ought to seek advice from the Maltings management?