News
and Events
10
February 2010
Romance
in the Air for Valentine's Day Naked Stage
Sunday 14 February 2010
5 pm
Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre,
Park St Cambridge
Tickets £5/4
Book free online:
www.adctheatre.com
Box
Office: 01223 300085
Weeks 1-3 Sold Out - Book Early!
My
Dancing Bones
by
Gill Saxon
A senior romcom about wild-child former dancer Eve
Mansfield and damaged, down-to-earth Scot, Jack Grisham, who are both
80. The couple are in love but to stay together they must overcome
the opposition of Eve’s god-daughter, Amanda, whilst also
struggling with the frailties of age.
Directed by Julia
Bolden
Cast:
Eve: Mavis Perkins
Jack: Simon Kelly
Amanda:
Jo Smythe
Alma/Patient: Francesca Brown
Tom: Robert Wells
Gina:
Michelle Golder
Erica: Jackie Leonard
Richard/Doctor: Vaughan
Allanson
Nurse: Erica Dupuy
The
Rose Garden
by
Simon Jackson
Michael is recovering at Dilys’ house after being
hit by a car. But who is Dilys, and why does she think he’s
an angel? And who is Ruby, a character who calls Michael ‘Prof’
and seems to be from another world? Though perhaps the biggest
question of all is: who is Michael?
Directed by Francesca
Brown
Cast:
Michael: Simon Kelly
Dilys/Haze: Pam
Jenner
Ruby/Rosie: Erica Dupuy
Nick/Pug: Vaughan
Allanson
Blind
Date in Wessex
by
Will Tate
It's Saturday night, and it's Blind Date live from the
Corn Exchange in Casterbridge with a few characters that some of you
may recognise...
Directed by Anita Lehmann
Cilla: Polly
Watkin
Elfride: Tabatha Leggett
Elizabeth-Jane: Alice
Kahrmann
Eustacia/Tess: Genevieve Cleghorn
Jude/Angel - Jacob
Millin
WRiTEON
Theatregoing Group - Alan Ayckbourn's My
Wonderful Day
Saturday
27th February 2010
7.45pm
Cambridge Arts Theatre
Book
Online: www.cambridgeartstheatre.com/
Box
Office: 01223 503333
The next proposed theatre trip of the WRiTEON Theatregoing group is to see Alan Ayckbourn's newest offering at the Cambridge Arts Theatre. Alan Ayckbourn is Britain's most prolific living playwright and this is his 73rd full length play. He will be 71 in April and his 74th play is scheduled for the autumn. This production is directed by the author himself and was premiered last year at The Stephen Joseph Theatre in The Round in Scarborough, where almost all his plays have had their start.
The play looks at the childishness of adult behaviour through the eyes of nine-year-old Winnie, who has been told to sit quietly in the corner and get on with her homework, an essay on the subject "My Wonderful Day". The goings on around her prove a rich source of material.
If you would like to come along, please contact julia@writeon.org.uk and we can arrange to get together before and after. You will, however need to book your own ticket/s. Prices range from £10 to £27 plus a £2 per ticket booking fee.
Writing Opportunities
Aldeburgh Music - Jerwood Opera Writing Programme
Aldeburgh Music is launching a new round of the Foundation Course as part of the Jerwood Opera Writing Programme. The Programme is designed for composers, writers and their collaborators who have little or no experience of writing or creating opera, and who want to widen their horizons and equip themselves to create contemporary work combining music, theatre and text. The Programme takes place in Aldeburgh.
Aldeburgh Music has a tradition of commissioned new stage works for the annual Aldeburgh Festival, and we have developed new opera composers and librettists through the Jerwood Opera Writing Programme Foundation and Fellowships over the last few years.
We are looking for composers, writers and other artists, who would like to explore the creation of music theatre in a collaborative context. The Programme is aimed at artists with little or no experience of writing or creating opera, and who may be at any stage of their career. The Foundation Course will comprise three separate workshop weeks when the participants will be resident in Aldeburgh. Throughout the three weeks, participants will be paired up for creative tasks and create small pieces or extracts to specific briefs. The Artistic Director of the course is Giorgio Battistelli. A wide range of composers, librettists, dramaturgs, directors, singing experts and opera industry professionals will come and give seminars on their own subjects.
Details are available on the website: www.aldeburgh.co.uk, or contact Chelsea Lawrence by email: clawrence@aldeburgh.co.uk or telephone +44 (0) 1728 687 100.
Apprenticeships
in Fiction 2010
Deadline:
31st May 2010
A one-year professional development programme for first-time novelists.
Adventures in Fiction is offering five subsidized placements for first-time novelists of commercial and literary fiction, including one for crime, one for fantasy and one for fiction for children and young people (9+/teenage). The placements, which have an individual value of over £2,750 will take the form of an apprenticeships with a professional writer working in a similar genre. The five apprentices will be selected from open competition by a panel of experts including Hannah Westland from leading literary agency Rogers, Coleridge, White.
In its first four years, the scheme has already resulted in three publications and referred eight writers to literary agents. Six writers have secured funding, two from Arts Council England, to support placements.
Apprenticeships in Fiction aims to encourage diversity, excellence and originality.
For further information go to http://www.adventuresinfiction.co.uk/apprenticeships
Workshops
in situ: Performance Workshops in Theatre and Landscape
If you are looking for a special creative experience, one that combines intensive and enjoyable artistic activity with good company, good food and attractive and peaceful surroundings, then you should try Theatre and Landscape. You don't need any special skills - you don't need to have done any theatre before - you just need a willingness to enter enthusiastically into creative and collaborative work. Creative and fun, Theatre and Landscape will leave you invigorated, refreshed, inspired and wanting more.
Following successful residencies in Norfolk, Suffolk, North Wales and Devon, in situ: is offering two residencies for 2010, all focusing on Environmental Theatre and in situ:'s unique approach to it. The first is a weekend course, taking place in the Peak District in early May. The second is a week-long residency in Cornwall, taking place in September.
Both these courses are devoted to the exploration of Theatre and Landscape, or Site-specific Theatre, as it's often called, and both areas are full of exciting possibilities.
Theatre and
Landscape I: Secrets and Hiding Places
Friday May 7 -
Monday May 10
Throwley Moor Farmhouse, nr. Ashbourne,
Derbyshire.
cost: £225 per participant (maximum 10 participants)
Theatre and
Landscape II: The Mythic Landscape
Saturday September 11 -
Saturday September 18
Millbrook, Cornwall.
cost: £480 per
participant (maximum 10 participants)
Further details of Theatre and
Landscape can be found on the website
www.insitutheatre.co.uk
For
any questions, or to request a booking, please ring 01223
211451, or email: info@insitutheatre.co.uk.
Community
News and Events
Classworks
Theatre Set and Prop Giveaway!
Saturday
13th February
10.30am-2.30pm
Coleridge Community College,
Radegund Road, Cambridge
Classworks Theatre Company is clearing its store of items of set and props. All theatre groups are welcome to come and have a look and take away for free anything that may be of use.