Thanks to Dave Hacket for once again taking rehearsal photos. We have published a selection in our latest gallery addition. Click on here: N.Watch Photo Gallery to take a look and comment if you wish.
Galleries from other recent plays can be found by selecting Galleries and the dropdown in the menu at the top of the page (a stack of bars on tablets and phones)
Neighbourhood Watch was a pleasing success. We knew this was a challenging play – wordy and longer than usual – but the audiences were in agreement with us that Ayckbourn’s words are well worth listening to. Thought provoking and easy to extrapolate to current affairs it was never the less balanced with many touches of his well-placed humour – think ‘Hedgetrimmer’ for one. Photos of the performance will be posted shortly, so ensure you have entered your email address under ‘Follow Us’ to be the first to see them.
Now we move on to our summer ‘rest’ phase which, of course is no rest at all. We are already thinking about plays for 2016/17 and we will be reading through scripts over the next few weeks. Have you any ideas, favourites, new plays, old plays that you would like to see us perform?
But firstly we have our Open Night on 9 May where we hope to interact with audience friends and newcomers and show who we are and what we do and answer your questions. Obviously we also hope to attract new members as helpers and/or actors – more on that interesting issue in a future post….
Yes, the realisation is dawning on the actors that our next play is less than two weeks away from going live on stage.
Find out more about Neighbourhood Watch here.
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It’s a challenging and time-consuming period for everyone as the number of rehearsals increase and we tease out the detail and the lines. But more than that, we introduce the music, the sound effects and the props, plan the scene changes, devise and publish the programme in readiness for opening night.
Next week sees the final rehearsals in ‘The Forum’ (the rather grand name for our drama hut and rehearsal room adjacent to the Village Hall) before we have a busy weekend of set building and building the seating in readiness for the performances. Only then can we translate the work we have done onto a stage environment – the Technical Rehearsal – which will work out our lighting, sounds and stage entrances and exits, scene changes and back stage functions.
Come and see the results of our efforts 28 / 29 / 30 April.
It may be April 1st but this is no joke… there are just 28 days to first night for Neighbourhood Watch. Seats are selling well so book your tickets now.
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