Play readings
11/02/11 15:40
After a particularly challenging day at work - you know, the days when you come out of a meeting feeling like you want to hit something! - I was looking forward to switching off and participating at a relatively relaxing evening of play reading now that the craziness of the panto was over! A group of us met at a fellow members house to read through and discuss various options for the forthcoming festival season - anything from ancient greek comedy and a members own work to a play about 3 monkeys typing Hamlet (I’m not even sure how you would categorise that!). This was a very sociable session and lots of laughs were had by all - just the tonic I needed after such a crap day!
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January rehearsal
06/01/11 13:22
Great to be back in the swing of things after the Christmas break - if the performances are as much fun as the rehearsals are, the audiences will be in for a real treat. Its hard to believe this is a show originally performed a hundred years ago and the jokes are still fresh! Lets hope we all stay so!!!
Mark Padbury
Mark Padbury
Mother Goose rehearsal
03/11/10 10:54
Everyone arrived to rehearsal tonight in high humour, the laughing and joking continued throughout the evening, with innuendo's being found in many of the lines! We worked our way through scenes 5, 6 & 7 to the end, which means that next week we can start at the beginning again and work on the blocking. The highlight of the evening for me was watching Dave doing the scene at the wishing well when he had to keep holding his leg up in the air! Being first Wednesday of the month we celebrated everyone's birthdays in the month, so there was plenty of cake! Everyone seems to be working very well and putting in loads of effort, it helps that everyone has fun at the same time. I'm looking forward to seeing how next week goes.
Golden Beaks Festival
29/09/10 14:42
Festival founder, playwright David Tristram decided to set up this particular festival in 1997 because he was “fed up of attending festivals where the wrist-slashing piece with the social message always won because the comedies which had everyone rolling about was deemed too frivolous”. Read More...
"What's up Doc?" by Karen Carey
12/05/10 10:28
In my experience, it’s always difficult to motivate a rather deflated cast after what could be perceived as a bit of a festival mauling. So after downing a lemsip to ward of an impending cold, I set off for the Civic Hall with a slight sense of trepidation to review the adjudication with the cast and to discuss what changes we could make to the play in the light of the comments made. However, I needn’t have been concerned. After about 10 mins of griping and airing our own views on the adjudication, we quickly dusted ourselves off and got down to business with our usual good humour. Read More...
Henley Festival - by David Cooke
10/05/10 13:59
It was with some collective trepidation that we finally got to perform our little play in front of a paying audience. Were we brilliant? Yes – in a word. Did the adjudicator agree? No – in another word. Read More...
One week to go... by Karen Carey
29/04/10 14:24
Well, one week to go until our first outing to the Henley festival and surprisingly enough the cast actually seem to know most of their lines......not necessarily in the right order, but us directors can’t ask for miracles after all! Read More...
"Anarchist" by cast member David Cooke
05/04/10 11:25
So, another year, another round of festivals, another Dario Fo play being directed by Mrs Carey or "she who had better be obeyed if you want to keep all your sticky-out bits intact" as we (the cast) like to think of her. God, some things are so predictable. Read More...