Robinson Academy

Autumn Term 2026 News

Robinson Academy — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:21:54 +0000

We hope you all had a wonderful summer holiday! We are starting to plan and prepare for a wonderful time back to drama this coming term! Very exciting! We have missed you all!

Our senior youth group aged 16-20 years, were very busy during a week in August, creating a play in a week, ‘Dona Rosita’ by Frederico Garcia Lorca, which Becky adapted specifically for this group.

They played to sold out audiences and pulled off incredible moving performances, with only 3 full days of rehearsals! Quite something! Such a talented group of young people, who spoke fluent Spanish, (as well as English) played the guitar, sang, added a little flamenco and communicated the text through BSL, all in one performance!

This term, we introduce a new group for parents to attend with children aged under 5 years, on a Friday morning at Printers Playhouse from 11.15am-12noon. The drop in price per week is £5 per family, to start with. Please contact us if you would like to attend this new group. We used to run a group for this age before the COVID period, so we thought it was time to start it up again.

All first session’s are free for a trial lesson, for new students.

Please note: Fees are now £9 for an hour session and £10 for an hour and a half session.

What does this new year hold in store!

Our very talented community group, will be performing ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll/Brainerd Duffield on the 28th November at 7pm & on the 29th November at 2pm and 7pm, 2026, at The Grove Theatre, Eastbourne. Please see the poster attached. Tickets will be available for this very soon.

Our youngest children, aged under 12 years will focus on drama games and drama techniques in term 1. In term 2 they will prepare for a Christmas performance and from term 3 they will rehearse for a production of ‘THE TWITS’ that they will perform at the Grove Theatre on the 5^th June 2027.

Our Youth group have the chance to go on a trip to the Globe to see ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ on the 17^th October. They will start auditioning for Much Ado About Nothing in term 2 then start rehearsing for it from then, onwards. They will also start working on LAMDA group devising exams in term 1 and take these in term 3 or 4.

Much Ado about Nothing will be performed on the 17th/18th July 2027 at the Grove Theatre.

Our Adult group will be performing a sketch show on the 23^rd January at Printers Playhouse at 4pm and 7.30pm.

Our Robin group will be working towards their skit of ‘Britains got talent’, called ‘The Robins have Talent’ and will be performing this on the 30^th April at the Hippodrome Theatre at 7pm, 2027.

We welcome new and current members back to our happy, inclusive, confidence building drama school/group, and we can’t wait to start a positive new school year!

Summer 2026 news

Robinson Academy — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:13:08 +0000

Thank you all for a wonderful term 5!

It has been another happy term, starting with our incredible youth groups National Theatre Connections play at the Trinity Theatre on the 19th April, followed by our wonderful Robin group performing their fabulous ‘SUMMER NIGHTS’ on the 15th May at The Hippodrome Theatre. Both productions were received with excellent feedback and all students had a wonderful time both on stage and off stage, with lasting friendships made. Lastly, on May 20th, Lily M-L took part in the ‘Performing Shakespeare Competition’, a National, Shakespeare Competition by the English Speaking Union, for students aged between 11-14, in the regional finals, and her performance was amazing!

Huge well done Lily for getting so far in this prestigious competition.

What does term 6 hold in store!

Our youngest children are performing, a wonderful adaptation of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, [particularly written for children], on the 6th June at The Grove Theatre at 3pm. This is starting to look really wonderful!

Our LAMDA showcase will be on the 4^th July at the Blind Society, Longstone Road at 2pm.

Our summer LAMDA exam day will be the 11^th July 9am – 12.30pm.

Our youth group will perform the famous Shakespeare tragedy Macbeth on the 19^th July at 3pm and 7pm and at 5pm on the 20th July, at the Grove Theatre.

Our Community Group will perform Alice in Wonderland at the Grove Theatre on the 28^th and 29^th November. Rehearsals have now started for this!

Our under 12’s Home Ed group will perform at the ‘St. Andrews Christmas Tree Festival’ on the 4^th December at 1pm.

HAPPY EASTER!

Robinson Academy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:22:23 +0000

It has been a very happy term, starting with LAMDA exams, in which all our students passed with flying colours! We must give a particular shout out to both our Gold Medal students Harry and Louie, who received extremely high distinction marks, for such hard and involved exams! Huge Congratulations, to all our exam students!

Lily M-L took part in the ‘Performing Shakespeare Competition’, a National, Shakespeare Competition by the English Speaking Union, for students aged between 11-14 years and she won this round, placing her in the regional finals, which will take place on the 20th May. Super work! We wish her all the very best for the next round.

We then finished this term, with our ‘Youth Group’ performing the most energetic, pacy and polished performance of ‘Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth’ on the 28th March for ‘The National Theatre CONNECTIONS Festival’! It was an incredibly moving performance and the feedback has been really quite something! So much praise!

What does term 5 hold in store!

Our NT Connections play ‘Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth’ will be performed again on the 19^th April at the Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells at 7pm by our excellent youth group. So there is still a chance to see this excellent play if you missed it in March! Come and support our wonderful students in this excellent new play for everyone!

Our Robin group are performing ‘Summer Nights’ on Friday 15^th May at the Hippodrome Theatre at 7pm.

Tickets are available from the Hippodrome website and box office. This production is already very well rehearsed and promises to be an evening to treasure forever, with energy and joy in abundance!

What does the rest of the year hold in store?

[The poster and tickets will be available from the end of April, we will keep you updated].

Our LAMDA showcase will be on the 4^th July at the Blind Society, Longstone Road at 2pm.

Our summer LAMDA exam day will be the 11^th July 9am – 12.30pm.

Our youth group will perform the famous Shakespeare tragedy Macbeth on the 19^th July at 3pm and 7pm and at 5pm on the 20th July, at the Grove Theatre.

Our Community Group will perform Alice in Wonderland at the Grove Theatre on the 28^th and 29^th November. [We will start rehearsals for this from May 9th.]

Our under 12’s Home Ed group will perform at the ‘St. Andrews Christmas Tree Festival’ on the 4^th December at 1pm.

February Term News 2026

Robinson Academy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:15:52 +0000

Thank you all for a lovely term 3 and a great start to 2026!

What does term 4 hold in store!

Our next LAMDA exam day is 21st February at the Blind Centre from 9am-12 midday.
Wishing all our students taking LAMDA exams, ranging from Grade 2 – Gold Medal, all the very best!

Lily M-L is taking part in the Performing Shakespeare Competition, a National Shakespeare Competition by the English Speaking Union, for students aged between 11-14 years. She will compete in round 2 at Bedes school on the 19th March. We wish her all the very best!

Our NT Connections play ‘Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth’ will be performed at the Grove Theatre on the 28th March at 7pm and on the 19th April at the Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells at 7pm by our excellent youth group. Come and support our wonderful students in this excellent new play for everyone!

What does the rest of the year hold in store?

Our Robin group are performing ‘Summer Nights’ on Friday 15th May at the Hippodrome Theatre at 7pm. The poster and tickets will be available very soon.

Our youngest children have chosen to perform ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ in the summer 2026. This will be performed on the 6th June at The Grove Theatre at 5pm.

Our summer LAMDA exam day will hopefully be the 11th July. We are just waiting to hear back from LAMDA and will update you asap!

Our youth group will perform the famous Shakespeare tragedy Macbeth on the 19th and 20th July at the Grove Theatre.

Our Community Group will perform Alice in Wonderland at the Grove Theatre on the 28th and 29th November. (We will start rehearsals for this from May 9th.)

Our under 12’s Home Ed group will perform at the ‘St. Andrews Christmas Tree Festival’ on the 4th December at 1pm.

Happy New Year 2026!

Robinson Academy — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:06:32 +0000

Happy New Year 2026! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

What an incredible terms 1 & 2 we had last year!

‘Romeo and Juliet’ was an incredible success with wonderful audiences who all raved about the students enthralling, truthful performances! ‘Stepping Out’, with our adult cast, was such a heart warming experience with the adult students shining brightly in this comedy drama, depicting real people so convincingly. ‘The Jungle Book’, performed by our wonderfully talented Community cast aged from 7-70+ years, was a beautiful, artistic, funny and moving Christmas treat. Our under 12’s groups performed very sweet and funny Christmas recitals and concerts to both their parents and the wider community at Printers Playhouse and ‘St Andrews Church Christmas Tree Festival’ just before Christmas. Thank you all for your support and brilliance!

What does 2026 hold in store!

The NT Connections play ‘Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth’ will be performed at the Grove Theatre on the 28^th March at 5pm and the 19^th April at the Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells at 7pm by our excellent youth group. The poster and tickets will be available very soon.

Our Robin Group are performing ‘Summer Nights’ on Friday 15^th May at the Hippodrome Theatre at 7pm. Again, the poster and tickets will be available very soon.

Our youngest children have chosen to perform ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ in the summer 2026. This will be performed on the 6th June at The Grove Theatre at 3pm.

Our youth group will perform the famous Shakespeare tragedy ‘Macbeth’ on the 19^th and 20th July at the Grove Theatre.

Our Community Group will perform ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at the Grove Theatre on the 28^th and 29^th November. [We will start rehearsals for this in May.]

Our under 12’s Home Ed group will perform at the ‘St. Andrews Christmas Tree Festival’ on the 4^th December at 1pm.

Our next LAMDA exam day is 21st February at the Blind Centre.

2025 October News

Robinson Academy — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:20:33 +0000

What an incredible term 1 we have just had!

Romeo and Juliet was an incredible success with wonderful audiences who all raved about the students enthralling, truthful performances! Huge congratulations to our Youth Group who worked tirelessly to create such an excellent version of this particularly famous and iconic play. Thank you parents, for all your support with the promotion of this wonderful production!

Stepping Out, with our adult cast, was such a heart warming experience with the adult students shining brightly in this comedy drama, depicting real people so convincingly.

Throughout both these productions there was total support, warmth and kindness from everyone in both casts and crew, with humour and a happy atmosphere throughout. All credit to all our wonderful students, staff, helpers and chaperones.

OUR NEXT PLAY ‘The Jungle Book’, performed by our wonderfully talented Community cast aged from 7-70+ years, will be a fantastic early Christmas treat for the family, at the Grove Theatre, on the 6/7th December. To book tickets go to rda.onlineticketseller.com It will be an early Christmas treat.

Our Robin group have decided to perform ‘Grease’ for their next show. This will be on Friday 15^th May at the Hippodrome Theatre.

Our youngest children have chosen to perform ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ in the summer 2026. This will be performed on the 6th June at The Grove Theatre.

The NT Connections play ‘Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth’ will be performed at the Grove theatre on the 28^th March and the 19^th April at the Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells.

This Christmas the youngest children in both groups will perform something Christmassy to their parents at their normal lesson time, in their last lesson before the Christmas holidays.

The Home Ed students will also be performing on the 5^th December from 1.30pm-2.30pm at The Christmas Tree Festival, at St. Andrews Church, Seaside Road [near big Tesco’s on Lottbridge Drive]

Our next LAMDA exam day is 15^th November 2025. Becky and two parents will be taking a small group of students up to the LAMDA public examinations, at the Drama School on Talgarth Road, to take their exams.

2025 Autumn Term News

Robinson Academy — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:12:45 +0000

We hope you have had a great summer. We now welcome the Autumn in, with a new school year and term 1.

We have many exciting projects and performances happening this term and for the rest of this year, 2025.

Our shows –

Romeo and Juliet performed by our very talented young people, with street dance, skate boarding/skating, a live DJ and Band, current music, stage fighting and excellent acting is on the 4th and 5^th October at the Turing Theatre with tickets starting at £5! To book your tickets, visit rda.onlineticketseller.com. Don’t miss out! It’s quite something!

Stepping Out, from the 25th-26th October, is at the Grove Theatre, performed by our very talented cast of adults who have perfected their characters to the smallest details. To book your tickets, visit rda.onlineticketseller.com.

The Jungle Book, performed by our wonderfully talented community cast aged from 7-70+ years, will be a fantastic early Christmas treat for the family, at the Grove Theatre, on the 6/7th December. To book your tickets, visit rda.onlineticketseller.com.

Our Robin Group have decided to perform ‘Grease’ for their next show. This will be on Friday 15^th May at the Hippodrome Theatre.

Our youngest children have chosen to perform ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ in the summer 2026

(time, date and venue to be confirmed). This Christmas the youngest children in both groups will perform something Christmassy to their parents at their normal lesson time, in their last lesson before the Christmas holidays.

Our next LAMDA exam day is 15^th November 2025.

Have a look at the gallery page to see photos from our summer show, plus previous school shows.

Please find the posters below with the QR codes for booking. Or visit our shows page for more information.

2025 Term 6 News

Robinson Academy — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:26:56 +0000

Our final term of the school year and the lead up to our exciting whole school Summer show for all our groups on the 5^th July at The Hippodrome Theatre and our LAMDA showcase for all our solo/duo students at the EODS Centre on the 19^th July!

Tickets for the 5th July Summer Show, showcasing full performances of ‘Mary Poppins’, and ‘The Wizard of Oz!’ and showing ‘Stepping Out’ snippets and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Snippets, finishing with a BSL signed poem involving every student, can be bought from the hippodrome box office online and at the theatre box office.

https://royalhippodrome.com/event/the-robinson-drama-academy-summer-showcase/

Tickets for the 19^th July LAMDA showcase, please email robinsonacademy@hotmail.com how many seats you want reserved. Only solo and duo LAMDA students are in this show. All tickets for this performance are £5 on the door.

Massive congratulation to the cast of our National Theatre Connections play ‘Mia and the Fish’ for their final performance at the Trinity Theatre on the 27^th April. They received high praise from National Theatre staff who said it was a fantastically inclusive, beautifully staged, cleverly lit, student led production.

2025 Term 4 News

Robinson Academy — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:03:15 +0000

Thank you all for being so supportive over this last term and for all your kindness. I must particularly thank Lisa and Sam for holding the fort for me when I haven’t been able to be in lessons, and for Lisa for completely running the Adult drama sessions preparing for the play, Stepping Out, this term.

All the pieces for the Summer show, The Wizard of Oz, Mary Poppins, Romeo and Juliet and Stepping Out are already looking fantastic. We will be performing these on the 5th July as part of our big summer show with our whole drama school and all our groups, finishing with a finale that every student will participate in, which we will start working on next term. Tickets now can be bought from The Hippodrome box office online and at the theatre.

BUY TICKETS – Summer Showcase

Huge well done to all our students who took LAMDA exams on the 8^th February, every student received a distinction which is the highest accolade for these exams.

Massive congratulation to the cast of our National Theatre Connections play ‘Mia and the Fish’. Our NT Director/mentor Luke, was full of praise in his feedback for the talent, imagination, creativity, total inclusion, team work and kindness of the group. He absolutely loved our vision and commented on the general atmosphere of the drama community, the audience and the support from the families as being so welcoming and refreshing and that our group were everything the NT Connections Festival is about and stands for. To see this wonderful performance, there are still tickets available on the 27^th April at the Trinity Theatre Tunbridge wells, 7pm.

BUY TICKETS – Mia and The Fish at The Trinity Theatre

This is a totally student voiced/student led project. So far from the raffle and Go fund me, we have raised just under £500 to hire a coach for the students to travel to Tunbridge Wells, (thank you) but the coach costs £785. So we still have £285 to raise, so there’s no extra cost for parents.

Here is the link, If you could share with family and friends, that would be great. Thank you

Go Fund Me Robinson Academy

2025 Term 3 News

Robinson Academy — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:22 +0000

We hope you all had a happy holidays and Christmas period and we look forward to starting back to a new year of drama fun and performances in 2025!

We wish all our students and their families a happy, healthy, safe, peaceful and calm new year!

We look back to the end of last year 2024, and celebrate the wonderful performances from the last term of ‘The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and ‘Oliver’. Huge congratulations to all our students involved in both these beautiful productions!

We now look ahead to this years events! Starting with LAMDA exams on the 8^th February and followed by our National Theatre Connections play ‘Mia and the Fish’ on March 29^th at 2pm and 6pm at the EODS Centre, and on the 27^th April at the Trinity Theatre Tunbridge Wells, 7pm. This play is already looking extremely beautiful and the students are working so well as a team with many of them leading the production decisions, this is a totally student voiced/student led project. We are fund raising via GoFundMe to hire a coach for the students to travel to Tunbridge Wells.

Mary Poppins with our ‘Robin group’ is now well on the way and is already bringing a tear to the eye. Two of our younger students are playing Jane and Michael with our ‘Robins’ playing the adult roles. We will be performing this at the Hippodrome Theatre on the 5th July and it will open our Summer Show, alongside clips from forthcoming productions from our parent and adults groups play ‘Stepping Out’ our teenagers and young peoples play ‘Romeo and Juliet‘ and a performance from our youngest children.