Longueville Little Theatre Company

Celebrate MK40 with LLTC 30!

Our production of Confusions (20–23 June) has been accepted as part of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of Milton Keynes. The play is listed in the city's official programme and is being performed in the very week that MK40 (as the celebrations are called) reaches its peak with a large Saturday night party in Campbell Park.

In fact 2007 is a landmark for LLTC itself because it is exactly 30 years ago since the company was created by a professional actor, the late Dermot Lee-Baker (see About US on this website). Dermot lived in Newton Longville and formed the nucleus of his company from local residents. He therefore gave it the name Longueville Little Theatre Company (note the French spelling).

However, through the quality of its productions LLTC quickly attracted members and audiences from a wider field and has long been established as a major player in the theatre scene of Milton Keynes and surrounding districts.

Happy birthday Milton Keynes! Happy birthday LLTC!

We Can Now Offer Sign Language For The Deaf

Thanks to a grant from the Margaret Powell Fund which is administered by the Milton Keynes Community Foundation, the LLTC will be offering a signed performance at each of our next three plays. The Margaret Powell Fund benefits older people and anyone with disabilities.

We are providing a BSL (British Sign Language) interpreter - Tracey Tyer - for deaf members of the audience. This is thought to be the first time that an amateur company in the area has made such a facility available.

For Confusions she will be in action on Thursday 21 June.

The grant will also finance the LLTC to have a signed performance at its next two productions in November 2007 (Noises Off) and March 2008 (It Could be Any One of Us).

LLTC chairman, John Drinkwater, comments, "We are offering the signed performances because we feel it is unfair that profoundly deaf people cannot usually attend amateur theatre shows. These are by and large less expensive and more community-based than professional theatre. We are grateful to the Milton Keynes Community Foundation for enabling us to do it."

Tickets for Confusions £6.50 (concessions £5) are available from LLTC, 16 Scott Drive, Newport Pagnell, Bucks MK16 8PW 01908 613145 or via this website.

Any deaf person wishing to take advantage of the signing facility on 21 June should ask for tickets on the same side of the theatre as the interpreter.