Welcome to the
DERBY NEW THEATRE ASSOCIATION

In February 2003 twenty non-professional performing arts groups appointed a steering group to investigate the provision of performing arts venues in Derby. The conclusion reached was that in comparison with cities of similar size in the UK, most of them with fewer resident performing arts groups, the number and scope of venues available in Derby is inadequate. Our brief is now to research how to establish a performance venue for the use of non-professional groups that will meet the expectations of the member groups and other groups operating in and around the city.

The Derby New Theatre Association was inaugurated on 23rd June 2003. The objects of the Association are:

1. to establish and operate a theatre in the City of Derby for the benefit of the community
2. to raise funds for the furtherance of the project

In October 2007 DNTA presented a petition to the Chief Executive of Derby City Council. The petition was signed by the chairmen of 23 of Derby's amateur theatre groups and urged the Derby City Council to;

* reduce hire charges for amateur groups at the Assembly Rooms and Guildhall, or to provide grants towards meeting ever-increasing costs
* apply pressure on Derby Playhouse to make its Main House accessible to amateur groups at reasonable times and at an affordable hire charge. Reasonable times means not just when the theatre is 'dark' in July/August but on appropriate weeks throughout the year
* honour its commitment to reconvene the Steering Group on Performance Spaces in the city to decide on a way to take forward the proposals in the Locum Report jointly commissioned by the Derby City Council and Arts Council England
* actively pursue ways to ensure that Derby's last remaining traditional theatre building - The Hippodrome in Green Lane - is preserved and brought back into use as a theatre for use by amateur groups and touring professional theatre companies.

Why not apply to join the Association now and become a member of this exciting project.

King Lear - Derby Shakespeare Theatre Co.

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