JANUARY 21. BROMLEY THEATRE GUILD ANNUAL QUIZ!!!
Sorry, was I shouting? Mark it in diaries now. Come in teams or individs. Questionmaster: ME. And since I don’t give a rat’s bum what Pi expressed in binary is, or the capital of Venezuela, or what a Bain Marie might be, it’ll be a DRAMA Quiz plain and simple; Theatre, Film, TV etc
Further details soon.
Y Touring Company is looking for an Older Female Actor to be part of this project.
This will involve rehearsing with the students from Sedgehill School and performing the play in the school and at the theatre.
The performance will take place early January 2012.
Rehearsals are Mondays and Fridays 3-5 with a more substantial rehearsal schedule to be provided on request.
This will involve rehearsing with the students from Sedgehill School and performing the play in the school and at the theatre.
Please call 020 7520 3074 or 079 2770 9686
Or email rebekah.keane@cssd.ac.uk
Terry Pratchett’s Maskerade adapted by Stephen Briggs
Performances on Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23, Thursday 24, Friday 25 and Saturday 26 November 2011 at 8.00pm
also Saturday 26 November at 2.30pm in the Chelsfield Village Hall, Bucks Cross Road, Chelsfield BR6 7RE
(opposite the 5 Bells) Doors open a half hour before the performance starts
You are invited to purchase tickets at £7.00 each (including refreshments)
(Please make cheques payable to ‘The Chelsfield Players’)
Now booking For this production, please book using one of the following options:
Phone: Bernard West 01732 750205
Brenda Payne 01689 831187
Post (and deliveries by hand):
The Secretary ℅ 72 Avalon Road, Orpington, Kent BR6 9BA
email: Chelsfield.Players@gmail.com
On line: chelsfieldplayers.ticketsource.co.uk
(Note, a 10% booking fee will be applied)
AUDITION – The Burnt Ash Drama Association (B.A.D.A.)
Sunday 21st August at 6.30p.m. in St Andrew’s Church Hall, Sundridge Park, Bromley BR1 5AF
We will be auditioning for our October/December production of ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens, adapted for the stage by Stephen Sharkey. This production will be performed at St Andrew’s Church Hall on October 27/28/29 and also at the Salon de Varietes in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol on 2/3/4/5/6th December. The trip to Spain will be at your own cost, but is always huge fun. We will be pleased to see anyone who wishes to be involved in any capacity at the audition and if you can’t make it but are still interested, please contact the Director – David Evans – on davidbromley2@sky.com. Thank you.
St John’s Church, Eden Park Avenue, Beckenham
We have booked a Wine Tasting event with “All About Wine”, a local wine importer based in West Wickham. Both the Chair and myself have been to previous events hosted by this company and they are truly excellent. The quiz follows a fun “Call My Bluff” style – with everyone competing in teams (tables). For each wine you are given to taste (in generous portions) you are given two descriptions and must decide whether A or B is the correct answer. Therefore, while some knowledge of wine can be helpful, it isn’t paramount and even the complete novice can make a lucky guess! However, they will also throw in a few bonus questions to give the connoisseur a chance to shine. You will be given 7 or 8 wines to taste (from my slightly hazy memory!) plus the opportunity to purchase your Christmas wine from them at discount prices (but without any sales pressure – seriously! This is not Glengarry Glen Ross!). Your £10 ticket will include all wine tasting plus a delicious selection of cheese, biscuits and breads during the break. All proceeds will go towards BTG funds.
Reserve your table, ring 020 8658 4001
As you know, the Guild has planned an Old Time Music Hall for Saturday 9th July at Keston Village Hall, as a fund-raiser for a possible Guild Production in 2012, and as an enjoyable get-together in the ‘close’ season. Now time is passing, and we need to get motoring.
In the past, events like this have been put on by familiar faces, performing by invitation, and it’s entirely possible that this one will be as well, although obviously no less enjoyable for that. However before we go that route, we want to make a last appeal, to as many of our various memberships as possible, to see if there are any amongst them who would like to take part, either singly or in a group. With a show like this, it is necessary to exercise a modicum of quality-control, so being able to muddle through ‘The Lambeth Walk’ on the spoons is no guarantee of a spot, but if you or anyone you know is at all inclined towards this venerable form of theatre and would like to participate, we need to know as soon as possible.
The event will be directed, and ‘Chaired’ on the night by Arthur Rochester, so if you have any questions , or would like further information about the format, or material, get in touch with him, on 020 8289 0269.
An evening like this is a marvellous opportunity for us all to see the diversity of talent among our members, and for you, an opportunity to get up there and do something you may not often get the chance to do in the normal run of things. We saw, in the course of our recent Festival, that you can act, now we want to see if you can sing, dance, and make us laugh. It will definitely be fun to do, and the schedule is unlikely to be arduous. And we know from the last One-Act Festival how much we enjoy finding out what each other can do, and meeting new people.
Now the small-print. We have a Guild committee meeting on the 6th of June and we need to know of anyone who wants to participate by then, at the very latest, because the thing needs to be taking shape by that point. To help us along, we’d be obliged if you could pass this message to anyone you think may be interested. In fact, send it them anyway, in case they know someone who might be interested. It’s going to be a great evening, whether you’re in it, or just in the audience, so spread the word.
NEXT UP:
4) Beckenham Theatre Centre:
“Shadowlands” by William Nicholson
Performances 21-26 March at 8pm
Beckenham Theatre Centre, 46 Bromley Road, Beckenham
Box Office: 07500 908 331.
Tickets £8 and £6 (Under 16’s and OAPs)
Adjudication: Thursday 24 March 2011
5) Chelsfield Players: (Not competing, but go anyway!)
“Six Characters In Search Of An Author” by Luigi Pirandello
Performances 23-26 March at 8pm
Chelsfield Village Hall
Adjudication: Friday 25 March 2011
6) New Wickham Court Players:
“Girls’ Night” by Louise Roche
Performances 1-2 April
Assembly Halls, Gates Green Road, West Wickham
Box Office: 0208 462 3492 (Jess)
Adjudication: Saturday 2 April 2011
7) Leap Productions:
“Departures” by John Godber
Performances 7-9 April at 8pm (tbc)
St Philomena’s Primary School, Orpington
Box Office: 07723 593136
Adjudication: Friday 8 April 2011
8.) Bromley Little Theatre:
“The Beauty Queen of Leenane” by Martin McDonagh
Performances 8-16 April at 7.45pm
Bromley Little Theatre, North Street, Bromley
Box Office: 07917 853 621.
Tickets £10 non-members; £7 members
Adjudication: Thursday 14 April 2011
9) Pratts Bottom DS:
“The Old Inn” by Bettine Manktelow
Performances on 14-16 April at 8pm
Village Hall, Norsted Lane, Pratts Bottom
Box Office: 07599 811516. Tickets £8 and £6 (concessions)
Adjudication: Friday 15 April 2011
10) St Mark’s & Keston Players:
“Why Me?” by Stanley Price
Performances on 14-16 April at 7.45pm
Heathfield Road, Keston, Bromley
Box Office: 020 8462 4086. All tickets £6
Adjudication: Saturday 16 April 2011
11) Burnt Ash DA:
“Diary of Anne Frank” by
Performances 28-30 April at
St Andrew’s Hall, Burnt Ash Lane, Bromley
Box Office: 07961 023174
Adjudication: Saturday 30 April 2011
12) FINAL ADJUDICATION AND PRIZEGIVING
Saturday 14 May 2011 at 8pm
Wickham Theatre Centre, Corkscrew Hill, West Wickham
FREE ADMITTANCE to all members of affiliated societies
Hi everyone!
The April play “Flying Feathers” is short of 1 female and 1 male. Here’s the blurb about the play –
When Chief Constable Henry Potterton and his sister, Sarah, arrive at the peaceful country house of their late brother, Bernard, they are astonished to find scantily-clad ladies wandering about, not knowing that during Bernard’s absence on a religious commune in the Orkneys his housekeeper, Nora Winthrop, has turned the place into a “house of sin”. As Nora is not expecting a visit from the Chief Constable, and is fearful of the questions he will ask, she hastily tries to hide the truth from him. This leads to many hilarious comings and goings, involving one of her clients who is dressed as a vicar, a window cleaner in a laundry basket, and a meek solicitor on horseback When Bernard also turns up from the Orkneys (or from Heaven!) and it is seen that he and Henry are identical twins, the house-hold is thrown into further confusion and chaos, leading to an unexpected climax.
We need 1 young lady to play one of the scantily-clad ladies. Don’t worry too much about the scantily-clad part, the director is allowing the ladies to wear whatever they feel comfortable in.
We also need 1 man to play a solicitor. This part can be very flexible when it comes to the age.
Please get in touch asap if you are interested or if you know of anyone who might be interested.
Thanks!!
The time has come.
It’s time to say “Damn the torpedoes”,”In for a penny, in for a pound”,”It’s now or never”, and any other song titles you’re fond of. I now need full and final confirmation and details of the productions that are being entered in the Full-length Play Festival of 2011. So if there’s anything that you know I don’t know about your production please tell me. Now.
I need to know what it is, who wrote it, when it’s on, when it’s being adjudicated, and where. A box office phone number if it is different to last year, and the one I keep forgetting, the start time for those of you who do not religiously stick to 8 o’clock. The sooner I get this information the sooner I’ll be able to bring out the publicity booklet and start letting the world know about our doings.
It has long been our desire here at the Guild to find ways to involve those societies that do not compete in our annual festival, for whatever reason. As one way of doing this we are expanding the concept of this year’s festival to incorporate, at least for marketing purposes, any productions by any of our member societies that fall within the timeframe of the festival, whether or not these productions have been entered for adjudication.
In exactly the same way as the Cannes Film Festival shows films “outside the competition”, as it were, we will be mentioning in our publicity all productions by our societies. We might not make too much of a fuss of productions that clash directly with competing productions because that would be shooting ourselves in the foot a bit, but there’s really no harm at all in at least mentioning the fact that these other productions are taking place, particularly since quite a few of the productions that our societies put on during February March and April are outside the competitive part of the festival simply because they don’t qualify, by being musical in nature for instance.
One of the principal purposes of the Full-length Play Festival is after all to spread the word about our productions to each other and to outsiders. My idea would be to use the back page of the printed festival programme to list any productions by member societies that have not been entered for adjudication either because they do not qualify or simply because the society chooses not to.
Having said all that, I’m still having to go and find a lot of this information myself which is time-consuming and dull. So the more information you can send me, by whichever means you prefer the better.
I’m testing some dictation software that I got hold of, and in some ways it’s quite good and in some ways it kind of sucks, so forgive me if every now and again as rebel leader added Barber bluefin dingbat birdied the other.
As part of our efforts to publicise the Guild’s societies in general and next year’s festival in particular we will be taking on the exhibition area in the central foyer of Bromley Central Library from January 26th through to February 10th .For those of you that haven’t seen it, this is a prime location right at the top of the central staircase and everybody who comes into the library has to go through it in order to get to the DVD’s and the computer terminals. (I believe they have some books as well in the cupboard behind the boiler).
This represents an ideal opportunity for all the societies in the Guild to publicise themselves and their future productions, whether these are part of the forthcoming festival or not. The exhibition area consists of about 20 boards or sides of a board or board-sized areas of the wall so each society can have the equivalent of an 6 x 4 display board to use as they will. I’m prepared to do the setting up myself unless anybody is free that Wednesday in the morning, and all I now need is each of our societies to furnish me with some material to stick up, for instance posters of the next production, posters or photographs of previous production, laminated sheets with history of the society, and most importantly of all, information about joining and a couple of membership forms to have on the table nearby. I even have a laminator somewhere in case you haven’t got your own.
So if I could ask you all to give a bit of thought as to how best to publicise yourselves either for new members or for an audience for your next production, then give me some stuff to stick up. As well as the boards there is also an illuminated display case for us to use, and I am thinking that we will put something in there such as interesting costumes or any peculiar or unusual props you might have. Anything that might make people stop and look and want to know what is going on.
If you really haven’t got anything of the right kind to stick on the wall, get in touch and I’m sure we can cobble something up between us. I’ll need anything you can give me by the end of next week, and I can come and fetch if you’re not too far away. This is an ideal opportunity for us to reach exactly the kind of audience we are looking for and it would be a shame to waste it so give it a bit of serious thought and I’ll be in touch soon.