About Stage Whispers

It's two days before opening night. The set isn't finished. Your lead has lost their voice. Someone's just told you the lighting board is "making a funny noise", and you're trying to remember if you ever actually confirmed the front of house volunteers or just meant to.

You'll get through it. You always do. But right now, in this moment, it feels like you're the only person in the world trying to hold a show together with caffeine, favours, and sheer bloody-mindedness.

You're not.

Every community theatre in the country has someone like you right now. Someone wondering if they've taken on too much. Someone trying to solve a problem they've never faced before, with no budget and no time. Someone who loves this ridiculous, demanding, wonderful thing we do, but who could really use a hand.

That's why we're here.

Stage Whispers is for you. Not for some idealised version of theatre where everything runs smoothly. For you, right now, in the middle of it.

We're a team of people who've been where you are. We've had sets collapse, casts fall ill, audiences fail to materialise. We've sat through committee meetings that went three hours and solved nothing. We've learned lines on lunch breaks, built flats on weekends, and wondered more than once why we keep doing this.

We keep doing it because we love it. And we suspect you do too.

So here's what we offer: practical help from people who've actually done the work. Not theory. Not lectures. Just honest conversation about what works, what doesn't, and how to make brilliant theatre without losing your mind in the process.

We share our disasters alongside our successes, because that's how you actually learn. We talk about the problems nobody else seems to mention: volunteer burnout, impossible budgets, the politics of casting, the loneliness of being the one who holds it all together.

And we're building a community where you don't have to figure everything out alone. Where the technical director from one theatre can help the first-timer at another. Where knowledge flows between drama groups instead of staying trapped in isolated pockets. Where you can ask the question you've been too embarrassed to ask, and find someone who had the same question last year.

This isn't about becoming professional. It's about doing what we do with more confidence, more support, and occasionally more sleep.

So if you're reading this in a brief moment of calm before the next crisis, or in the exhausted aftermath of a show, or in that strange quiet period between productions when you're already thinking about the next one: welcome.

We've been where you are. We're still there, honestly. We're just figuring it out together now.

Come join us.