Culture Club

Occasional visits to the theatre, cinema, galleries and exhibitions (WI Members only)

Future Trips

Tuesday 23 April – screening of NT performance of Nye at Kiln Theatre

A chance to see the acclaimed National Theatre production of Nye starring Michael Sheen as Aneurin Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state.


Past Trips

Thursday 22 February – screening of NT performance of Vanya at Kiln Theatre


Thursday 11 January – Visit to the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Neasden Temple)


Friday 20th October – Mlima’s Tale at the Kiln Theatre


Friday 15th September – Alvin Alley American Dance Theatre at Sadler’s Wells


Thursday 15 June – National Theatre Live screening: Fleabag with Phoebe Waller-Bridge

A group of us had a very enjoyable night out at the Kiln Cinema to see an NT Live showing of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag which was the precursor of the play and then the very successful television series.  Lots of laughs, some very risqué moments and some very moving moments too!


Friday 6th January – The Wife of Willesden at the Kiln Theatre

Critically acclaimed, multi-award winning, best-selling author Zadie Smith‘s ‘irresistably rambunctious’ (The Telegraph) The Wife of Willesden transports Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath to 21st Century North West London.


Thursday 20th October – Handbagged at the Kiln Theatre

Fifteen of us had a very enjoyable outing to see the revival of Handbagged, a play about the relationship between HM the Queen and her Prime Minister during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher. For some of us, the play allowed us to remember key moments of the 1980s, for others it was a slice of history, which they are too young to remember. The six actors were all very good, the accents for the two main characters were spot on as were their costumes. The play was of course topical, some of us had a good laugh when Mrs. Thatcher said that she was not a quitter, on the very day that another PM had just done so!

Monday 5th September – Feminine Power: the Divine to the Demonic, Exhibition at the British Museum

Thursday 16th June – The Father and the Assassin at the National Theatre

A tale about Mahatma Ghandi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader, and Nathuram Godse, journalist, nationalist and the man who murdered him. Play be Anupama Chandrasekhar

Thursday 21 April at 7.30pm – Black Love at the Kiln Theatre

An explosion of form-busting storytelling, Black Love celebrates and investigates the Black experience through music, real-life stories and imagined worlds. Book and Lyrics by Chinonyerem Odimba and Music by Ben and Max Ringham