Monday 29 April 2013

Our current production

Intimate Exchanges
by Alan Ayckbourn
The first weekend was sold out on the Saturday and pretty full on the opening night at Highley.  A fantastic cast and crew ensured everything was transported and put up efficiently and still left time to get to the pub. 
I hope the second weekend, 3rd and 4th May, at Priory Hall and final Friday 10th at Chelmarsh is as full with our supportive audiences.  We shall be without Liz F's management skills, but everything has been so well organised and planned and everyone is so keen that it should (touch wood) go like clockwork.
We are already thinking ahead to the November production and would welcome ideas from members and potential directors.

Saturday 13 April 2013

All set

Intimate Exchanges
Last Saturday 9 of us turned out to wield paint brushes and drills and today John, Liz, Owen and Mo made a return visit to make sure everything went together.  Not even a spot of drizzle deters these guys!  "Intimate Exchanges" is on a roll!

Thursday 4 April 2013

Reduce, Render and Sweat

April Club Night
Reduce, Render and Sweat, a satire by David Summers, was the II Act play brought by Geoffrey .  It is not, as you might think, a play about the local gym, but about food.  Carenza, a cookery writer, is suffering falling book sales and everyone else, she believes, must share some of the blame.  A perfectionist, few can live up to her standards.  Carenza has an eye on what her rivals do to keep ahead of the game and thinks her agent, Paul, may have redeemed himself when he is contacted by a producer about a new foody programme on American TV.  Unfortunately Carenza's expectations and theirs are a total mismatch and she ends up losing not only the chance to present the programme, but also her assistant, Mary, her husband, Michael  and the photographer, Wayne.  But Carenza is made of strong stuff and there is an unexpected turn around at the end.
We chuckled reading the play and discussed it critically afterwards, considering how it might work for us on stage.