Blithe Spirit our spring production, directed by Alan Jones, was a great success and saw the introduction of several new members. On stage we had two new members making their debut for the club, Michelle Hope and Jo Longstaff, and backstage Aiden West and Rob Smith. They all proved to be great assets to the Club during the production. The Saturday matinee again proved to be very popular, overall we had 565 people who watched the play, and judging from the many comments, thoroughly enjoyed it.
The autumn production will be directed by Tom Brown and play readings have already started to help Tom choose a play. The next play reading will be on Monday 11th May,7.30 pm, in the Green Room.
Iris Hillery is planning a Talent Night as a club social event on Friday 9th October. We know we have many talented people in the Club so please don`t “hide your light under a bushel” come and “strut your stuff”.
We are trying hard to publicise the Club and its activities via social media adding to our existing website. We have now added Facebook pages, one for members only and an open page to get our message out there, so please have a look at them and contribute them.
DURHAM DALES FESTIVAL FOR PERFORMING ARTS:
We have been approached to see if the club would wish to join in a festival. An extract from an e- mail is as follows:-
“We are currently working towards setting up a festival in the area and wondered if this might be of interest? As well as our own two productions (COSI FAN TUTTE and the rock musical – ! – BEOWULF), which we would love people to join, the main idea is for any groups and other performers to put on shows under the umbrella of the Festival: drama groups/comedians/orchestras/dance schools… Perhaps groups have performed i n their local villages and could do a ‘swop’ with others; thereby getting extra enjoyment out of their hard work and doubling entertainment opportunities for their audiences.
The Festival will take place over the first two weeks of August (in the hope that should it be something people enjoyed sufficiently to want to do it again, perhaps we could tempt visitors to Edinburgh to make a detour – thinking ahead a little!)”
If anybody thinks this is a good idea for the Club to take part at this festival, please let me know.
Gainford Big Weekend, in June, are having a scarecrow competition. It might be fun if we created a Drama Club scarecrow (could we put it outside the Theatre?). Would anyone be up for helping produce one? Please let we know.
Well that’s all for now!
John