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December news (November 29, 2009)
The CADS Factor!
Now’s the time to dig out your favourite poem, sketch, song, or speech from a play to entertain the troops at our December monthly meeting (7.30 p.m. on Wednesday 2 December at Greneway School), provisionally entitled “Star Turns”. This will effectively be our Christmas get-together, so there will be the usual drinks and nibbles (do feel free to contribute!) and the idea is simply to go round the room inviting everyone to perform. A Christmas theme would be nice, and if you want to dress up that’d be even nicer, but is by no means compulsory. You don’t have to learn your “piece” if you don’t have time or simply don’t want to: reading is perfectly acceptable, and, despite the headline of this item, there’s absolutely no competition involved - we just thought it’d be fun! Everyone is welcome, whether or not you’re a full member, part-time member, occasional visitor or complete stranger and if you want to bring friends or family, that’s fine too. We hope to see you there…
“Nights” are drawing in
Rehearsals proceed apace for the 2010 Royston Town Pantomime, 1001 Arabian Nights (and a Matinee) by Damian Trasler, David Lovesy and Steve Clark, directed by Kathy Wholley with musical director Louise Atkins. Just to remind you all, the performances take place at Greneway School on Friday 22 January at 7.30 p.m., Saturday 23 January at 2.00 p.m. and 7.30 p.m., Friday 29 January at 7.30 p.m., and Saturday 30 January at 2.00 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. Tickets cost £7 each (concessions: £5) and are available from the Box Office on 01763 242906.
Tickets are already selling well, partly due to CADS having had stalls at Greneway Christmas Market and Roysia’s Christmas Fair, where a lot of interest was expressed in the show – many people even said they preferred coming to the Royston pantomime to going to the professional shows in Cambridge or Stevenage. Banners advertising the pantomime should be going up around the town during December, so keep an eye out for those; a colourful advertisement (designed by our own unfeasibly talented James Baxter) will appear in the January issue of the Listing magazine; and there will be the customary display in the town library in the run-up to the show.
The group will also have a presence at the Royston Christmas Market on Sunday 6 December, again advertising the show and hopefully taking some orders for tickets. We’ll be in Angel Pavement between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., some of us possibly in costume, with the usual displays and flyers. We do need volunteers for this, though, so if you can spare even half an hour during the day to hand out leaflets, chat to passers-by and generally promote the panto, please get in touch with CADS Secretary Michael Young before that date (contact details at the end of this newsletter) so we can organise a rota.
The practical aspects of the pantomime are also going well, with a productive set building weekend having taken place last month, and several new volunteers coming forward to help with the techie stuff. For an informal chat about this side of the pantomime in general, please contact the show’s producer Emma Daintrey on 01763 242906 or 07811160814 at any time. For more information in general or to check on the progress of the show, you can ring Kathy on 01763 223805.
Spring fever(ish)
No definite news yet on our plans for Spring 2010, but it’s now looking more likely that we shall in fact be submitting a one-act play for the Cambridge Drama Festival in April. This will probably be, as previously suggested, Noel Coward’s sophisticated drawing-room comedy Hands across the sea, which the group read through a few meetings ago. More news on this when we have it but if we do go ahead with this plan, we need to decide what if anything, we’re going to do with the play other than enter it at Cambridge. One suggestion has been to perform it at Greneway either before or after the festival, either in a double bill with another local group’s one-act festival entry as we’ve done before, and another has been to put it on as part of an evening of Coward, perhaps with a second half consisting of performances of Coward’s songs – this might be a popular option as it could involve a larger number of people each contributing one or two items either in character or “straight”. Watch (as they say) this space for further details…
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