Drama Society

Performing Arts

About

BL Drama is perfect for anyone who loves to act, sing, write, choreograph, direct, tech or make a fool of yourself on stage with your friends. We pride ourselves on being a warm and welcoming society!

BL Drama Society is perfect for anyone who's interested in acting, singing, writing, choreographing, directing, teching or making a fool of yourself on stage with your friends. We pride ourselves on being a warm and welcoming society, whether you want to be in the spotlight, behind the scenes or just make have some fun.

We put on a number of different shows throughout the year including a play, a pantomime and a musical, as well as workshops, sketch comedy shows and lots more. There are so many ways that you can get involved with us - whether it’s onstage, offstage or even behind the bar we welcome anyone from seasoned pro to complete newbie.

We perform and rehearse at our very own theatre Laird Hall (you can find it right next to Floyer House) and anyone is welcome to join us!

The Zebraphiles

These wonderful people are our resident sketch comedy group. They put on a number of shows throughout the year, starting with their Barts show in December. They also compete in UH revue, a London-wide competition to decide which medical school is the funniest (us obvsiously). They recruit via Open Meetings which occur throughout the year so be sure to follow their Facebook Page to make sure you don’t miss out on those!

Awards

BL Drama has been awarded “Best Society of the Year” three times in the last 7 years! This award is nominated by the Barts community and voted for by the BL Board so thank you to all our members and fans!! We were also honoured to be nominated by the university for a National Society’s Award in the past.

Our amazing Zebraphiles also compete in the UH revue where sketch groups from all the London medical schools come together for a comedy battle royale. And in 2017/18, 2019/20 and 2022/23 they only went and won it!

Upcoming Performances

We normally put on five shows a year. We welcome people with loads or no drama experience to get involved by audtioning, directing or teching our shows!

Here are our provisional show dates (subject to change):

Senior play - 16th-18th October 2024

Freshers Play - 27nd and 29th November 2024

Bart's Show (Zebraphiles) - 13th December 2024

Pantomime - 29th-31th January 2025

Musical - 9th-11th April 2024

How do I get involved?

We are always thrilled to welcome new members so we’d love to get you involved! Come and meet us at Fresher’s Fair or follow our social media to keep up to date with auditions, workshops, calls for backstage and front of house and other events.

Members page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BartsDrama/

Socialising Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/619532668152408/

Please feel free to email us or DM us on socials about getting involved!

Socials

Outside of rehearsals and shows we love spending far too much time together! We will be organising plenty of events throughout the year, starting with the traditional Brick Lane curry and ending with our spectacular tour (at a secret location…).

Even if your role within the society is dedicated audience member you’re more than welcome at our socials, you’ll have a great time at all of them!

Subs

Anyone who wants to become a member of our society is required to pay our baseline subs. If you have been a member of drama before this is the 'Senior Baseline Subs' option and is £15. For those new to drama you will pay the 'Fresher Baseline Subs' which is £10. Zebraphiles is an additional membership that can be bought alone or in conjunction with another membership.