Memoria
Venue: Arches Lane Theatre
Date: 30/06–04/07/2026
Type: Theatre
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KDC Theatre presents a double bill of one-act plays: The Anniversary by Anton Chekhov & The Hut by Iain Prest, The Anniversary by Anton Chekhov
A respectable bank.
An important anniversary.
Everything must go smoothly!
As the chairman prepares a grand speech to celebrate the bank's success, interruptions begin to pile up: a nervous clerk with his meticulously prepared report, a persistent wife demanding justice, and a series of increasingly absurd misunderstandings.
What begins as a formal occasion quickly spirals into chaos. The Anniversary is a sharp, fast-paced farce about pride, bureaucracy, and the fragility of social order. Beneath the comedy lies a satire of status, self-importance, and the desperate need to be heard.
The Hut by Iain Prest
Can a hut be a home? According to Alec: no. That's why he's fighting his local council's attempt to demolish the Scout Hut in his village and turn it into flats. Hannah is a lawyer from out of town who doesn't care about the hut and doesn't care about the flats. She just needs to smooth the path for the property developer so she can get married to Pete and live the life she's been dreaming of ever since they met at uni. Except Pete isn't so sure that's the future he wants for himself. And when Alec's old friend and first love turns up in the village after 20 years, suddenly Alec is forced to rethink his view of the past.
The Hut explores what it means to be rooted in a place vs being stuck: stuck in a town, a relationship, a job. It's about learning to walk the line between holding on to memories and freeing ourselves from ideas about who we think we are.
And trees. It's about trees.
Address:
Arches Lane Theatre, Arches Lane, London, SW11 8AB
Web site: https://www.archeslanetheatre.com