Performing English language theatre in Geneva, Switzerland since 1933

The Geneva English Drama Society provides a diverse theatre programme with a wide variety of styles and periods. A typical season includes 3-4 full stage productions and 20 fortnightly staged playreadings, plus workshops and social events. The play readings normally attract 50-100 people, and provide onstage roles for both experienced and aspiring actors.
 

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GEDS Next Production:
Calendar Girls by Tim Firth
18-22 June 2013

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News & Forthcoming Events

 


Tuesday-Saturday 18-22 June

Tickets on sale from 25 May
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Special Charity performance on Friday 21st, for the benefit of leukaemia and lymphoma research, in the presence of one of the original Calendar Girls.

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 Théâtre Pitoëff
rue de Carouge 52
1205 Geneva. map
     
     
Tues. 21 May 20h Playreading: Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Elliot. more English Church Hall, rue du Mont Blanc. map
Wed. 22 May 18:30 Mailing Party for Calendar Girls. We need help! No skills needed. Very sociable. more Collège des Coudriers. map
Tues. 4 June Playreading: Round and Round the Garden by Alan Ayckbourn. more Sue and Alan Leathers' garden map
18-22 June Stage Production: Calendar Girls by Tim Firth Théâtre Pitoëff, Geneva
Sat. 6 July Poetry and supper evening. more Diane Simance's garden
     
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GEDS event 2013: GEDS members and friends were welcomed for a backstage tour of Geneva's impressive Grand Théâtre: a tour that included the ups and downs of its expansive stage, and its extensive nearby workshops for everything that goes into major operatic productions. PHOTOS
 
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Summer event 2012: GEDS hosted its first-ever barn open house in August. It was followed by a bar-b-que of roasted lamb. This marks the third year GEDS is using this excellent barn, near Nyon, to build and store sets, props, lighting and sound equipment. See the PHOTOS
 
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Summer event 2012: Members of GEDS and The Geneva Amateur Operatic Society (GAOS) got together for a festive cruise on the galère La Liberté. See the PHOTOS
 
     

GEDS Most Recent Productions

 
   

God of Carnage
by Yasmina Reza was produced by GEDS in March 2013.
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  As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
was produced by GEDS
in November 2012.
more		   Comic Potential
by Alan Ayckbourn was produced by GEDS in
May 2012. more		   The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
was produced by GEDS
in March 2012. more		 A View From
the Bridge
by Arthur Miller was
produced by GEDS
in November 2011. more

Our 2012 - 2013 Season

6-10 Nov. 2012 As you Like It by William Shakespeare Directed by Frances Favre
 Théâtre de Terre-Sainte, Coppet
5-9 March 2013 God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza Directed by Charles Slovenski Théâtre du Centre de l'Espérance, Geneva
18-22 June 2013 Calendar Girls by Tim Firth Directed by Neil-Jon Morphy Théâtre Pitoëff, Geneva

updated 17 May 2013
  
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