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Theatre Group visit to “Oliver “ at the Gielgud Theatre
19th March 2025
Our West End theatre trip in March was to the new production of Oliver which had transferred from Chichester Festival Theatre where it had been the summer musical of 2024. We didn’t make it to Chichester but everyone thoroughly enjoyed the show at the Gielgud Theatre. Produced by Cameron...
Elle visit to Chadwell Heath
18th March 2025
Last ELLE trip was to Chadwell Heath to visit Valence House and the museum. It was chilly that day and it rained a lot in Orpington, including hailstones. The only rain we saw was a short burst through the window of the cafe while having lunch. The museum was...
The Man of Mode - Bromley Little Theatre
8th March 2025
Many of us were reluctant to spend the afternoon indoors on such a beautiful spring day but it turned out to be well worth it and 40 members of the theatre group attended the matinee. The Man of Mode is a 17th century Restoration comedy, in this production set in modern times but...
Taster Drawing Class
6th March 2025
An opportunity to attend a Taster Drawing Course for several weeks run as a weekly class by a fellow u3a Bromley member. This would be run at Martin's Home in central Bromley (on bus routes) and can cater for 6 to 8 participants. This would allow u3a Bromley to gauge interest and see if the Group...
Theatre Group Trip to The Last Laugh at The Noel Coward Theatre on 26 February
2nd March 2025
27 Theatre group members attended one of the very first performances of The Last Laugh direct from a sell out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for a short run at The Noel Coward Theatre before a nation-wide tour. Described as “a brand-new laugh- a -minute play which reimagines the lives of...
Theatre Group trip to see Boys from the Blackstuff at The Churchill Theatre (20th February)
27th February 2025
Direct from a sold-out season at The National Theatre Alan Bleasdale’s “Boys from the Blackstuff” is the acclaimed adaption of the Award-Winning TV series of 1982 which still has echoes today. Brave, bleak and brilliant, and rightly relevant to today’s economic situation it is an...
Art Appreciation Group
23rd February 2025
Our January zoom by Graham was on the three Guggenheim Galleries and their collections of mainly modern art. The Guggenheim family are one of the wealthiest in the USA. Famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the New York gallery and it still looks strikingly up to date with concentric...
Seven Kings to Goodmayes - an Elle trip
22nd February 2025
The two stations we visited had little of interest to commend them; they were just the next two on the line so we walked from one to the other. In order to make it more interesting we decided to have a photograph competition and the slide show consists of the pictures taken with added...
THE MIRROR CRACK’D - at Bromley Little Theatre
8th February 2025
40 theatre group members attended the most recent offering from BLT which is one of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mysteries. On this occasion Jane Marple is incapacitated by a badly sprained ankle and must rely on others’ recollections of events to solve the latest murder in St Mary Mead, that...
Let's Dance - U3A Daytime Disco
6th February 2025
Some of the disco members have for some time been asking if it could change back to Monday, the day we started with, while others have said that they prefer Tuesday, so a vote was taken, and although not everyone in the group voted, there were more votes for Monday, but also several people who...
