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We are looking for some friendly faces to join the team at Macready Theatre and help us welcome our audiences back.

These casual positions will include a mixture of bar work and front of house duties, such as greeting audiences and showing people to their seats.

Applicants must be aged 18 or over due to licensing laws. 

You can download the full job description here >>

To apply, please visit the Rugby School recruitment portal here >>

We are looking forward to welcoming you back to live performances and events. Your comfort and safety is our priority and we want to reassure you about the steps we are taking to keep us all safe at this time.

• Please be kind and respectful to fellow audience members and staff, and keep your distance from others wherever possible.
• Whilst it is no longer a legal requirement, our staff will continue to wear face masks. We strongly encourage visitors and audience members to wear a face mask whilst moving through the venue if you are able to do so.
• Please make use of hand sanitiser which is available throughout the venue.
• Do not enter the venue or attend an event if you or anyone in your household is feeling unwell with any symptoms of COVID-19.
• Our staff members are carrying out regular Covid-19 testing, and we encourage you to take a lateral flow test before attending the venue. You can find out more and order free tests here.
• Enhanced cleaning routines have been established in the theatre, with a particular focus on high-traffic touch points.
• Our theatre is now operating at full capacity, which means you may be sitting next to other people.

If you have any questions, please email the theatre manager:
Dettie Ellerby, dre@rugbyschool.net.

Join the UK’s leading dance company Motionhouse Dance in a weekly dance class. Creators of world class dance-circus productions, internationally acclaimed Motionhouse are now running dance classes in Rugby.

Age 8-11 = 10:00-12.30
Age 12-17 = 1:30-4.00pm

Venues: Rugby School
Cost: £10

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We are looking to appoint part-time LAMDA teachers to work as part of our highly successful LAMDA team in this expanding area of school life within a flourishing Department of Theatre & Performing Arts in the School’s Macready Theatre.  The successful candidates will have a proven record of accomplishment of performance and/or teaching experience. 

Applications from actors currently working within the industry are particularly welcome and flexible working arrangements can be made for actors who gain professional acting work during term time.

Flexible hours of work, Evenings & during the day

Current rate of £21.50 per hour

Rugby School is an independent boarding school of approximately 800 pupils and 100 full-time members of the teaching staff. Entry for most boys and girls is at 13, chiefly from preparatory schools via the Common Entrance or Scholarship Examination.

For more information and to apply: Please register and complete an application via our recruitment portal which can be found at www.rugbyschool.co.uk/about/employment-opportunities

Closing date:  24th February 2019, 12 noon

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

 Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

 Charity Registration Number 528752

The Macready Theatre is situated in the heart of Rugby town.

We are a 250 seat theatre with big aspirations. Our aim is to educate and inspire. We run a programme of professional work throughout the year and offer up to 1/3 of all tickets to professional touring work free to local school groups in term time.

This summer we are programming an Edinburgh preview season from 28th June – 14th July.

If you have a show you are taking up the Edinburgh Festival 2019 and would like to preview it in Rugby, please get in touch. 

We can offer the folllwing:

Accommodation

250 seat theatre

Technician on site

Marketing

Box Office split 

http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/arts-job/post/edinburgh-festival-preview-opportunity/

Motionhouse Residency

We host weekly workshops with inspirational dance company Motionhouse!

Join us on Wednesdays 17:30-19.30. £12 per session.

For more details contact fs@rugbyschool.net

Details at: https://www.motionhouse.co.uk/