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 Stage production:
Fallen Angels
by Noël Coward
9-13 March 2010


News & Forthcoming Events
24 Nov. Tues. Playreading: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire more  
27 Nov. thru Feb. Stage production: La Vie Parisienne by Jacques Offenbach
Performed by Vivre et Chanter, with the participation of several GEDS members. more
Opens in Divonne, followed by performances in Nyon, St. Julien, Meyrin, and St. Genis.
4-6 Dec. Fri-Sun. Stage production: Red Riding Hood. A pantomime performed by GAOS more Théâtre du Leman
8 Dec. Tues.
(end of 2009 events)
Playreading: Snake in the Grass by Alan Ayckbourn more English Church Hall map
 

 

 

 
Photos: It Runs in the Family by Ray Cooney more November 2009
Photos: The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard more June 2009
Photos: Gas Light, by Patrick Hamilton more March 2009
Photos: GamePlan by Alan Ayckbourn more November 2008
GEDS members energetically promoted the society at the 2008 version of Expat-Expo in October. Hundreds of new-comers to Geneva, as well as long-time residents stopped-by to ask about GEDS....and our next-door neighbour the Geneva Amateur Operatic Society. photos October 2008
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GEDS Summer Outing: cruise and dinner in Yvoire, July 2008. Photo gallery September 2008 (posted)
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THE EDGE: 2008 Reunion of A Flea in Her Ear. more August 2008
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The Extraordinary Revelations of Orca the Goldfish
GEDS entry in the Swiss Festival of English Speaking Theatre. more
June 2008
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Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams. more May 2008
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The Constant Wife more March 2008
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75th Anniversary Gala Reception - 26 February 2008 more February 2008
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Run for your Wife more December 2007

Our 2009 - 2010 Season

10-14 November 2009 It Runs in the Family by Ray Cooney more Diane Simmance Théâtre de Terre Sainte, Coppet
9-13 March 2010

Fallen Angels by Noël Coward

Charles Slovenski
Théâtre du Centre de l’Espérance, Geneva
29-30 April 2010 Preview: Shakers
by John Godber.
GEDS entry into the 2010 Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies.

Malcolm Grant

Théâtre Les Salons, Geneva
1-5 June 2010 The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold
Jenny Buffle Théâtre Pitoëff, Geneva

 

updated 22 November 2009

 


 
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