SCRUM Theatre

SCRUM Theatre Theatremaker collective in W6 turning empty office space into arts venue
☞ Affordable studio hire
☞ Free & PWYC Workshops
☞ library

SCRUM Theatre is a charity dedicated to making theatre more equitable and accessible for the next generation of makers and audiences, by prioritising the conditions for artists to make their best work. Our arts centre in Hammersmith is now open for studio hire, performances, high quality pay-what-you-can training, and schools projects. We’re a democratic collective of 9 interdisciplinary artists,

championed by leading UK theatre-makers, including Adrian Lester, Nick Hytner, Lyndsey Turner, and Declan Donnellan.

Have you heard the news? As we shared on our Instagram last week, today marks a new chapter for SCRUM Theatre:“To our SC...
13/03/2026

Have you heard the news? As we shared on our Instagram last week, today marks a new chapter for SCRUM Theatre:

“To our SCRUMmunity,

On 13th March, we are closing the doors at 191 Talgarth Road and joining Riverside Studios as their new Resident Company.

This will be a thrilling new chapter. At Riverside Studios, we will expand our performance and workshop programme in a new home with a rich history of cutting-edge theatre.

In the meantime, we are working to open a new studios site in the not-too-distant future. Watch this space...

The Talgarth Road project has been two years of absolute joy, fuelled by you, the thousands of creatives and supporters who transformed a near derelict building into a buzzing and packed-out arts centre.

So farewell 191 Talgarth Road, hello Riverside Studios, and onwards & upwards in the arts!

Love,

The SCRUM Team
(Claire, Dom, Flo, Gráinne, Jerrell, Lucie, Rebecca, Rousha & Wofai)”

🌱 Want to know more about the move and residency? Head over to our website for our announcement & FAQs page https://www.scrumtheatre.co.uk/announcing-a-new-chapter

🌱 If you would like to support us, we’d love to hear from you about your best memories of your time at 191 Talgarth Road. Tag us with your pictures, or email [email protected]. We will include them in a lovely report on the building’s success.

🌱 Donate to help us with our next steps, at via the link in our bio

This might SCRUM in handy...All Studios are now 15% off our standard rate!Including our brand-new refurbished Studio Ell...
05/02/2026

This might SCRUM in handy...

All Studios are now 15% off our standard rate!

Including our brand-new refurbished Studio Ellen (90sqm, Slide 2).

Applies to all remaining available studio space between 9 Feb to 6 Mar when you book up to 5 days or more.

Just paste the code SCRUMINHANDY15 when submitting your booking enquiry form.

https://www.scrumtheatre.co.uk/studios

꩜ “Our revels now are ended. These our actors [and directors]”💥Pictured: the end of a glorious week on The Shake Up, wit...
08/08/2025

꩜ “Our revels now are ended. These our actors [and directors]”💥

Pictured: the end of a glorious week on The Shake Up, with this talented group of advanced-practice actors and directors.

5 days brimming with games, collaborative practices, and nerding out about Shakespeare — with a truly special afternoon with returning honoured guest

Thank you, Shakers, for sharing your energy, wit and hearts in your showcase this time last week.

Parting is such sweet sorrows — but we hope to see you anon!

꩜💥

For further advanced-practice workshops for actors and directors, we have a thrilling announcement next week with “one of the world’s finest theatermakers” (New York Times), Dmitry Krymov.

Sign up to newsletter (link in bio) to hear about it first.

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Applications now OPEN for ✰ THE SHAKE UP ✰A five-day intensive for professional actors & directors, with a masterclass f...
16/06/2025

Applications now OPEN for ✰ THE SHAKE UP ✰

A five-day intensive for professional actors & directors, with a masterclass from special guest ADRIAN LESTER

☞ Course Dates:
28 Jul — 1 Aug, 10am to 5pm

☞ For a full course outline, please visit scrumtheatre.co.uk/shake-up

☞ All successful applications are processed in order of application (on a first come, first served basis, basically)

☞ We’re offering bursary places for artists of colour, working-class artists, and trans and non-binary artists who face financial barriers – please apply via the bursary link in bio

☞ Prices:
£490 per person
x6 free bursaries
x5 £450 places for subscribers to our mailing list

All profits from THE SHAKE UP go directly towards the costs of our monthly open-access pay-what-you-can classes

☞ This is not a drop-in course. All participants will be expected to attend all the scheduled hours of the course. Please check out T&Cs before booking

☞ For enquiries and questions about access, contact [email protected]

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Image description: a painting of William Shakespeare’s face have been divided into three parts and ‘shook up’. In the top-right corner is information on the course title and the date. Adrian Lester listed as our special guest, as he’ll be leading participants in masterclass on the Thursday

This May’s p(l)ay-what-you-can workshop at SCRUM: Finding Play!*honk honk* Some clowning workshops are scary. Not this o...
14/05/2025

This May’s p(l)ay-what-you-can workshop at SCRUM: Finding Play!

*honk honk*

Some clowning workshops are scary.

Not this one.

This is the workshop for performers, comedians and theatre makers who want to dip their toe into the world of clowning and find out how clowning principles can help them to find play, connection and joy in their work. 

Expect to break the fourth wall and connect directly with your audience. Expect to fail. Expect to PLAY and have FUN! 

*honk*

FINDING PLAY with CLAIRE PARRY
📅 Sat 24 May, 10.30 AM to 1.30 PM
📍SCRUM Studios, Hammersmith
🎯 Performers of all kinds; 18+
💷 Pay what you can — or pay it forward
🔗 Link in bio for booking & more info

AFTER THE WORKSHOP
And after the workshop we invite you to join us for Snacks ‘n’ Chats! We’re holding tea for all workshop attendees - a chance to get to know your fellow creatives, skill swap and, most importantly, eat biscuits.

ABOUT CLAIRE PARRY
Claire is a Lecoq trained theatre-maker, clown and musician who teaches at Central School of speech and Drama and GSA. As an artist and facilitator she uses embodied and physical practices with a focus on devising and play, which she applies across the board from creating new work to performing Shakespeare.

🔗 Link in bio for booking & more info

               

[Image description: a poster announcing the details for our workshop ‘Finding Play’, led by professional clown Claire Parry. The poster is covered in yellow scribbles and two scans of Claire’s face, where her face and red clown nose are smushed against the glass of the scanner. This ties together the aim to find a sense of playfulness, even when conditions are overwhelming.]

✿ More on our West London Young Creatives* programme! ✿Sign up for any one of these FREE events via the link in our bio ...
08/05/2025

✿ More on our West London Young Creatives* programme! ✿

Sign up for any one of these FREE events via the link in our bio and an our website

❁ 27 May (6 PM to 8.30 PM)
1. Audition Technique with Iman Bahmanabadi

✺ 28 May (6 PM to 8.30 PM)
2. Planning as a Director with Lucie Dawkins

✰ 29 May (6 PM to 8.30 PM)
3. Creative Producing with Jerrell Cumberbatch

✮ 30 May (6 PM to 8.30 PM)
4. Production Skills: Technical Theatre with Nicola T Chang

❋ 31 May (10 AM to 3.30 PM)
Networking Day

Email Bethan from SCRUM Theatre with any questions on [email protected]

*West London includes: Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Richmond upon Thames, Wandsworth and Westminster. 
Young Creatives: 18-30 years old

[Image description:
Slide 1: a video showing all the posters for our West London Young Creatives events
Slides 2-5: the posters for our workshops. Each one has the name, time, and type of workshop on the graphic. In the top-right corners are images of each of the workshop leaders. A circle with a number matches the leader with their workshop number.
Slide 6: poster for the networking day. In the background is a scan of tree branches, representing growth and connection]

✿ More on our West London Young Creatives* programme! ✿Sign up for any one of these FREE events via the link in our bio ...
08/05/2025

✿ More on our West London Young Creatives* programme! ✿

Sign up for any one of these FREE events via the link in our bio and an our website

❁ 27 May (6 PM to 8.30 PM)
1. Audition Technique with Iman Bahmanabadi

✺ 28 May (6 PM to 8.30 PM)
2. Planning as a Director with Lucie Dawkins

✰ 29 May (6 PM to 8.30 PM)
3. Creative Producing with Jerrell Cumberbatch

✮ 30 May (6 PM to 8.30 PM)
4. Production Skills: Technical Theatre with Nicola T Chang

❋ 31 May (10 AM to 3.30 PM)
Networking Day

Email Bethan from SCRUM Theatre with any questions on [email protected]

*West London includes: Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Richmond upon Thames, Wandsworth and Westminster. 
Young Creatives: 18-30 years old

[Image descriptions:
Slide 1: a video showing all the posters for our West London Young Creatives events
Slides 2-5: the posters for our workshops. Each one has the name, time, and type of workshop on the graphic. In the top-right corners are images of each of the workshop leaders. A circle with a number matches the leader with their workshop number.
Slide 6: poster for the networking day. In the background is a scan of tree branches, representing growth and connection]

14/03/2025

5 March 2025 Women share stories of hope in W6 photo exhibition Hammersmith’s new SCRUM theatre space set to host photography exhibition as part of H&F’s Women’s History Month Share on: Categories: Community Crime Pictured: Local artist Camila Almeida (centre) with project participants Nera an...

Presence and Connection: Acting with Your Whole Self with Victoria WorsleyExplore connection and presence to the audienc...
14/03/2025

Presence and Connection: Acting with Your Whole Self with Victoria Worsley

Explore connection and presence to the audience and fellow actors through the Feldenkrais method.

📅 Sat 5 April, 2-5pm
📍SCRUM Studios, Hammersmith
🎯 Actors and performers; 18+
💷 Pay what you can — or pay it forward!
🔗 Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/presence-and-connection-acting-with-your-whole-self-with-victoria-worsley-tickets-1272564738389?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
We know it when we see it. The actor who is simply there, fully present - able to listen, feel, respond, take action but without apparent effort or need. In this workshop we will slow down and use the dynamic yet delicately nuanced ‘Awareness Through Movement’ lessons from the Feldenkrais Method to listen inwards and discover how we can involve our whole selves in an action.

ABOUT VICTORIA WORSLEY:
Victoria Worsley was an actor, theatre maker and movement director for 20 years before qualifying as a Feldenkrais Practitioner in 2007. She has a busy general practice in North London and became an Assistant training in 2021. She has worked in many drama schools including Mountview, Oxford School of Drama and Rose Bruford and teaches workshops with John Wright and for Shapes in Motion. Her book “Feldenkrais for Actors, how to do less and discover more” was published by Nick Hern Books in 2016. It has been translated into Italian with a new Korean translation pending!

AFTER THE WORKSHOP:
After the workshop with Victoria please join us for Snacks ‘n’ Chats ! We're holding tea for all workshop attendees - a chance to get to know your fellow creatives, skill swap and, most importantly, eat biscuits.



[Image description: A yellow graphic with black text. It is for Victoria Worsley's Presence and Connection workshop. In the centre are four black-and-white scans of the cover of her book ‘Feldenkrais for Actors’. The graphic also tells us tickets are 'pay-what-you-can'. The date of the workshop is Sat 5 April, 2-5pm. At SCRUM Studios in Hammersmith.]

Deepening Your Personal Practice with Jeannette NelsonDeepen your personal voice practise through exploring resonance, v...
14/03/2025

Deepening Your Personal Practice with Jeannette Nelson

Deepen your personal voice practise through exploring resonance, vocal range and support.

📅 Sat 29 March, 2-5pm
📍SCRUM Studios, Hammersmith
🎯 Mid-career actors; 18+
💷 Pay what you can — or pay it forward!
🔗 Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voice-deepening-your-personal-practice-with-jeannette-nelson-tickets-1280662809939?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
Jeannette’s voice workshop is designed for actors who are mid-career and it will help you to establish or deepen your personal voice practice. She will take you through exercises that connect you to your breath, explore your resonance, open up your vocal range and support your clear speech. The workshop will also leave you with a structure for your pre-performance voice warm up. Please bring with you a piece (or two) of text that you can use in the workshop.

ABOUT JEANNETTE NELSON:
Jeannette has worked extensively as a voice coach in theatre, film and TV. At the National Theatre from 1992 to 2001, returning in 2007 as Head of Voice until 2023; at Shakespeare’s Globe for 1997,1998,1999 and 2001 seasons; at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2001 to 2005; at Sydney Theatre Company for a year in 2006. Other voice and dialect coaching in London and the UK includes work with the Royal Court, Young Vic, Donmar Warehouse, Shared Experience, Out of Joint, Complicite, Sheffield Theatres, Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse, English Touring Theatre, Oxford Stage Company, The Bridge Theatre and the West End. Her film and TV work include: The Merchant of Venice (with Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons & Joseph Fiennes) and The Hollow Crown (full star cast including, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sophie Okondedo, Tom Sturridge, Keeley Hawes, Sally Hawkins), Jeannette’s books, The Voice Exercise Book and Keeping it Active are published by the National Theatre and Nick Hern Books. Her latest book, Centre Stage, is published by Penguin Random House.

AFTER THE WORKSHOP:
After the workshop with Victoria please join us for Snacks ‘n’ Chats ! We're holding tea for all workshop attendees - a chance to get to know your fellow creatives, skill swap and, most importantly, eat biscuits.

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SCRUM Studios, 191 Talgarth Road
London
W68BJ

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm

Website

https://linktr.ee/scrumtheatre

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