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Following their successful Summer tour, the company are now presenting their inaugural Winter Season in churches including St Anne’s. It is an all new production of Macbeth, infused with “wicked music and devilishly good tunes”.
They will be here on Saturday 9 November with performances at 3pm and 7pm. Tickets from shakespearein the squares.co.uk.
To celebrate this event the Society held a joint meeting with the Vicar and congregation of the church looking at both the history of this distinctive Waterloo Church and a review of the architectural issues of making church buildings relevant to today’s worshippers and communities.
To view a recording of the meeting see https://youtu.be/aTgR44Pnl14
The All England Club’s controversial plans to build 39 new tennis courts, including an 8,000 seat stadium, on protected open land has been approved.
Merton Council approved the plans, but the proposal was referred to the GLA after Wandsworth Council rejected the scheme last November. However the GLA officers recommended approval and Jules Pipe, the deputy mayor of London, approved the plan. The Society made representations against the proposal along with the Wimbledon Society and many others. The objectors are considering what steps, if any, remain available to continue the case.
The Shakespeare in the Squares performances (sponsored by the Wandsworth Society) were kicked off by a fascinating talk from Sioned Jones, Director of this year’s production of All’s Well That Ends Well. Her talk, titled What’s in a Name? , can be viewed here:
On 28 February some 60 members of the Society were addressed by Wayne Bellamy, Station Manager of the Thames Lifeboat Station at Chiswick. A recording of this fascinating talk can be viewed here.