Weekend at the West End Pre-production Post

Well here we go, the eve before BLT youth perform the first of their 2 shows W@W. Dress rehearsal last night went very well with one or 2 small issues but resolved on the night. This really does promise to be a great show. I have to say well done to Ros and Sally for getting this together. There have been some very fraught moments over the last few weeks with the dates looming ever closer and the 'to do' list growing ever longer!! Sally has worked tremendously hard in choreographing the dances. Many a night have I been banned from the kitchen while dance routines are put together. Libby has ably assisted Sally during this time.

A huge thanks to Nye for putting together the lighting for this show. A good few midnight candles have been burned. However the effects will enhance the show without doubt.  Also our new member Ian Palmer who visited the theatre on our open day offering his services. Bet Ian didn’t realise just what he was letting himself in for.

Irene Livingstone has been a tremendous help in rehearsing all the soloists (yes including me)! Fay has been a real whiz on getting all the tracks together and cutting some of them to within an inch of their lives.

There is an army of people involved in this production and I would just like to say thank you on behalf of Ros, you know who you are.

I hope that people who look and hopefully read this will have an understanding of what is needed to get a show of this magnitude together.

I am in no doubt that those who have booked tickets will be thoroughly entertained from beginning to end. There are a few odd seats left so if you don’t want to miss out please get in touch before it is TOO LATE.

Cheers..

British One Act Final 2012

The final of the British One-Act Festival was held this weekend (6th and 7th July) at the Torch Theatre in Milford Haven.

We took our play, 'Biscuits,' written by Graham J. Evans, one of our members, to complete against three other plays from Scotland, England and Northern Ireland respectively.

We opened the festival on the Friday night, followed by Northern Ireland with their play, The Droitwich Discovery by Nick Warburton, performed by The Clarence Players.

Saturday night saw the remaining two plays - Scotland's Kirkton Players performed In the Blinking of an Eye by Jeremy Hylton Davies, and England with The Tempest by William Shakespeare, performed by Total Arts Community Theatre.

All of the plays were of a high standard. However, only one play could win, and the adjucticator, Ian Sarginson, had a very difficult decision to make.

We would like to congratulate Scotland's Kirkton Players on their success, and we are looking forward to competing in the next One-Act Festival in 2013. We are proud of our team for getting to the final and representing Wales - thanks to the DAW Team and everyone at the Torch Theatre for making this such a memorable weekend.

See you all next year!