2025: A Year of Dreaming
We began this year in a state of near-despair. Our main theatre had been closed since 2020, and there was no hope on the horizon of its being able to re-open. The cost was beyond our capacity. We were producing theatre—good theatre—but all we had was a 70-seat theatre which had no hope of raising the kind of revenue we needed to make even the most basic repairs we needed. Audiences knew that if they were at the theatre and there was a rainstorm, the actors might appear onstage with buckets or umbrellas, because the Black Box leaked over the stage area. And the 85-year-old main theatre was crumbling. Trees were growing out of walls.
But all that changed in January when we announced that we needed now to raise $400,000 to keep our doors open! A raffle was launched, and that raised enough money for us to start making much-needed repairs. Then, wonder of wonders, the government of The Bahamas came through with $340,000!!
We got our first deposit in the bank in March 2025 and we began work on making the theatre the space of our dreams. This blog is going to sum up what we’ve done so far, and where we want to go.