The Oxford School of Drama

Circle Game at The Southwark Playhouse

The Oxford School of Drama

Announcing the second of our upcoming productions at Southwark playhouse:

Circle Game by Sophie Swithinbank and directed by Hannah Hauer-King.

Nine addicts are in recovery at a multi-addiction rehabilitation centre. The melting-pot of residents and the over-worked staff must navigate these complex journeys of recovery together. When money and medication begin to go missing, the essential sense of trust at the centre begins to fracture. Circle Game intends to reveal the humans who live inside addiction and how they can choose to climb away from it, but it will always be with them for better or worse. Recovery is possible. You just have to play the game.

More information and to book tickets here. 

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Seamus Allen

Seamus trained in his hometown, Dublin at the Conservatory of Music and Drama. After graduating he toured nationally with some of Ireland’s premier children’s theatre companies, as well as developing and performing clown performances for Barrabbas, and magic shows for Cahoots N.I. 

Since moving to the UK Seamus has appeared in The Tempest, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth and Robin Hood (Creation Theatre Company), Quest (Folklore Presents) The Disappearance (The Sticking Place),and Where’s My Desi Soulmate? (Rifco Arts). Tv work includes Bear Behaving Badly (Thames Valley).  Seamus is also a skilled improviser, training with Ken Campbell’s School of Night and core cast in the annual London 50 hour Improvathons and performs with “Austentatious, The improvised Jane Austen Novel”.  

Seamus was the director of the Young Company at the Watermill theatre in Newbury. He established Readings only Improvisation comedy club, “What’s the Game?! Improv”, hosting shows as well as coaching professional performers.  Seamus was Head of acting at Read college, a course which he wrote and which became one of the most successful Foundation courses for getting students into the top acting degree programmes in the UK.  Most recently he has been Head of Year at Drama Studio London and gained an MSc in Performance Psychology focusing on excellence in actor training.

Seamus is Head of Foundation and teaches on the Foundation Courses