Originally founded in the 1940s the society was renamed Studio 61 in 1961. We currently rehearse at Bradmore Arms on Trysull Road on Monday and Wednesday evenings. We are fortunate to have the support of a large number of patrons, enabling us to be assured of a regular audience base for whatever we do and are not, like many societies, restricted to well-known ‘crowd pleasers’. Our choice of plays
is down to whatever a member of the society has an enthusiasm for directing, and if, after a read-through, the other members like it, then it is added to the programme. Additionally, we hold an annual Patrons’ evening, when rehearsed readings of exerpts from three plays are performed and the patrons vote for which they would like included in the coming season.