NEWS
19 April
GST
Newsreel #5.
Another so soon, to catch up with myself having missed one and
also because of course this week we have….. drum roll… Educating Rita! Don’t forget to
come and see what I’m sure will be an excellent show. Tony has rather
brilliantly got us a piece in the Hendon and Finchley Times this week (I know
from experience how hard this is to achieve) and they’re using one of my
photos of Fran so I’m doubly pleased!
GST
events coming up
Coming up in the next fortnight (19
April – 3 May ) we have the following GST events
Thursday 22 – Saturday 24 April
Educating Rita
Venue: Henrietta Barnett
School
Cost: Free to members
Time: 8pm
Book
your tickets now on 020 7723 6609
Sunday
25 April
Clear-up Sunday,
Educating Rita
Venue: Henrietta Barnett
School
Cost: Free to members
Time: 10am
Usually followed by a
pub lunch…
Bubbling under
Sunday 16 May
Unrehearsed
Playreading: The play is Arthur Miller's
1968 family drama 'The Price'
Venue:
Mulberry Court, East Finchley
This will be a
playreading with a difference. Anne Mansell, our host for the evening,
lives in a retirement home and she has enterprisingly arranged for the
reading to take place in the communal lounge. The other residents are
being invited. This means that the performance will be semi-public, in
a much bigger space than usual and with potentially a much larger
audience. Mulberry Court is at the corner of East Finchley High Road
and Bedford Road: go to the Bedford Road entrance. If you plan to
be there please email us.
Sat 5 June
BDDF
Awards Night:
details to follow
Special requests
· No
special requests this time.
Other
events
· Potters Bar Theatre Company are putting
on the musical CAROUSEL - featuring well known songs such as "You'll
Never Walk Alone", "Mister Snow", "If I Loved You",
"June Is Busting Out All Over" and "When The Children Are
Asleep".
Carousel runs from April 20th -24th at 7.45 p.m.
each evening plus matinee on Saturday 24th April at 2.45 p.m. at Wyllyotts
Theatre, Potters Bar.
Tickets available from 07985 542204 and from their
website www.pottersbartheatrecompany.co.uk
·
23 – 29 May, Incognitos present Barefoot in the Park
Ticket
Prices : £9 non-members, £8 members, £5 students.
Manager : David Longstaff
Phone : 0791 287 5700
Email : incognito.theatre.group@googlemail.com
On-line Booking : http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Incognito
22 March
Greetings
to all GST members and welcome to GST Newsreel #3.
Audition News
Although we were
successful in casting the main parts for this summer's production of `The
Recruiting Officer' following last week's audition, a number of smaller and
walk-on parts remain to be filled. A second audition for these parts only
will therefore be held at St Margaret's Church Hall, Victoria Avenue, London
N3 starting at 7.30pm on Sunday 11 April.
The main parts to be filled are those of Lucy (Melinda's maid), Rose (a
country wench), Bullock (Rose's brother), Appletree and Pearmain (rustics).
Audition pieces D, G and H, which can be found on the website, apply. Other
parts with lines include a Constable, a member of the mob and a couple of
servants. There are also opportunities for people who wish for non-speaking
roles, mostly as part of a mob. There is scope for doubling up and I hope to
use most of the actors in the smaller parts as stage crew to bring on tables,
chairs etc.
If you are interested, please turn up to the audition, even if it's for a
non-speaking role. If you are interested but cannot attend, please let either
John Colmans (Director) or Alicia Crisp (Production Assistant) know as soon
as possible. email us
GST events
coming up
Coming up in the next
fortnight (23 March – 5 April) we have the following GST events:
Saturday
27 March – Rehearsed Reading, The House of
Bernarda Alba
Directed by John Dansey
Venue: Golders Green Parish Hall (you may
know it as St Albans Church Hall), West Heath Drive, Golders Green NW11
Time: 7.30pm
Wednesday
31 March – pre Isle of Man public performance of Twelfth Night
Venue: St Margaret’s
Church Hall, Victoria Avenue, London N3
Cost: Free of charge to
all.
Time: 8pm
Special
requests
· Does anybody
have two lifejackets that we could borrow for Twelfth Night, please? If so
please email me email mary and I’ll arrange to pick them
up.
· Mark
and Sarah Overall will be running the London Marathon on April 25 in aid of
the North London Hospice. If you would like to sponsor them you can do so
online at http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=thefantasticfour
Other
events
· Laura
Allen (Viola in Twelfth Night) is appearing in Seussical the Musical
this week at the artsdepot in North Finchley. Wednesday
24th -Saturday 27th March 7.30pm, Saturday 27th March 2010 2.30pm.
http://tinyurl.com/yjplmjw
· Lou Rogers (Terry’s daughter-in-law) is producing
Britains’s Got Bhangra, opening at the Theatre Royal Stratford East on 17
April https://stratfordeast.ticketsolve.com/shows/23497850/events
· If you
enjoyed The Three Musketeers and have a free week over Easter you may be
interested in joining a Hollywood swashbuckling course from 5 – 10 April in
Exeter. Full details from Ruth Cooper Brown on ruth@rc-annie.com
· Not
theatre-related but Katie Davies from the Ham & High (who are excellent
at helping us out by publicising our shows in the paper) has asked me to pass
on information about a debate between the prospective parliamentary
candidates for Finchley and Golders Green. Thursday April 8, 7pm, admission
free. Location: Ivy House, North End Road, NW11 http://www.ljcc.org.uk/events/genre/43-discussion.html
Bubbling under
· Tuesday 6 April: Twelfth Night at
the MADF Easter Festival of Plays
· Sat/Sun 17/18 April: Set building, Educating
Rita
· 22 – 24 April, Educating Rita
· 14-22 May John Querfurth will be
appearing in David Copperfield for the Company of Ten in St Albans –
Box Office: 01727 857861. More details closer to the time
Twelfth Night and Educating Rita are still both in rehearsal,
contact me or Ros Berg (treasurer@gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk)
respectively for times and venues if you’d like to come along and watch.
Photos of The Three
Musketeers are available for viewing, download and printing. If you would
like to view photos and download them to keep or print, use this link http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/marymusker/ThreeMusketeers#
Alternatively, here’s a link to the same photos on Snapfish where you can
order prints directly but not download http://www3.snapfish.co.uk/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=2753979006/a=25100925/
Greetings to all GST
members and welcome to GST Newsreel #2 – with thanks to Hannah Arnaud, one of
our junior members, for coming up with the new name.
I’m
sure almost everyone saw or was involved with our very successful production
of The Three Musketeers over the last fortnight; we sold over 800
tickets, got some excellent publicity in the Ham & High, and generally
had a very enjoyable time.
During
last week the GST was performing and rehearsing three shows simultaneously – The
Three Musketeers in performance, Educating Rita in rehearsal, and
we have just started re-rehearsing Twelfth Night prior to taking it to
the Isle of Man at Easter. Some people also managed to fit in a visit to the
Hampstead Theatre where ex-junior member Tom Williams was performing with the
RSC in Dunsinane. An excellent production; unfortunately the run is
now ended but Tom thinks it may well transfer at some point in the future.
Coming
up in the next fortnight (8 – 22 March) we have the following:
Sunday 14 March – Audition for the
outdoor show – The Recruiting Officer.
Here’s a link to the
audition page on the GST website where you can view the available parts and
download audition pieces.
http://www.gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk/auditions.htm
As mentioned above, Twelfth Night and Educating
Rita are also in rehearsal, contact me or Ros Berg respectively for
times and venues if you’d like to come along and watch.
Coming
up in the next GST Newsreel – Rehearsed reading (House of Barnarda Alba)
on Sat 27 March, Pre-IOM performance of Twelfth Night on 31 March,
Laura Allen in Seussical the Musical at the artsdepot.
If you’d like me to
include anything, email me!
13 Feb 2010. Three Musketeers coming up very soon....
LOTS of fighting practice going on; see photos HERE.
March 2010 newsletter can be downloaded HERE.
09 November: Download the latest newsletter HERE - complete with review of
Our Country's Good and news about the GST Christmas Party... also a
downloadable copy of the Three Musketeers audition notice HERE.
13 October: Audition details for The Three Musketeers
now available on our Twelfth
Night audition details now available
28 May: News about our Murder Mystery Evening on
Saturday 6 June
MURDER WITHIN TENT A camper on holiday at a
remote campsite has been found dead. Whodunnit? The remaining campers are
interrogated during an evening of suspense, laughter and thrills.
7.30 pm at Finchley Youth Theatre, 142 High Road East
Finchley.
£5 admisson covers to cost of snack supper, drinks on
sale.
Compere Tony Newton as "Andy Field" campsite
proprietor with suspects including the Lanes, the Bergs, Mirrie, Toby, Simon,
Sybil, Geoff, Tezza, Alicia and Ashley.
19 May 2009:
... in Social
News: This summer's Blanket Banquet is now confirmed for Sunday
26th July. Put it in your diaries now, and start practicing your cricket!
... in Audition News: The
audition notice for Our Country's Good
is now available on the Audition page.
...in Show news: A New Venture for GST. We are moving into the heartlands of Barnet with performances
of 'Our Country's Good' at the Old Bull Arts Centre after the
run at Henrietta Barnet School. This will be an exciting challenge for
designer, stage crew and actors to adapt from a large school hall to the more
intimate theatre with a thrust stage.The Old Bull is a community theatre and
we hope to attract new audiences for our shows.
...in Other News: Heading
to the Edinburgh Fringe this August. Members
of the GST are taking taking two plays to the Edinburgh Fringe and hope that
as many members as possible will make the journey north to support them.
If you haven't been to the Fringe before you don't know
what you're missing! Following the rehearsed play reading of "Time
Share", Terry Rogers has substantially re-written the piece which
is now going to be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe at the Sweet ECA,
Edinburgh College of Art.
For those who do not know the story, the plot is as
follows: " Foul whisperings are abroad. Malcolm discovers the apartment
next door is occupied by Macbeth, but no one believes him. What starts as a
relaxing holiday in the Spanish sun escalates into a bloody battle with the
neighbours from hell."
In this black comedy Malcolm and Simon work together and
one of them is in line for promotion in the family firm. Simon and his wife
Vicky have inherited a timeshare in Spain and invite Malcolm and his wife
Judy to join them for a holiday. The men anxiously wait to hear from their
boss Duncan who has got the top job. From the outset there is tension. News
that Duncan has disappeared is topped when Malcolm discovers they are living
next door to Macbeth and his wife. Gradually all four of them are inexorably
dragged in to the Shakespearean tragedy.
Will they be able to extricate themselves or will one of
them ending up having to kill Macbeth?
It previews from 6 - 8 August and runs until 31st
[except 18th]
And that's not all. John Colmans is joining
former members David Brown and Eugene Smith in "The
Wild Goose Chase" by John Fletcher.
Collaborations with Shakespeare aside (Two Noble
Kinsmen, Henry VIII) John Fletcher’s work is unjustly neglected. Here’s a
rare chance to see his 1621 battle of the sexes comedy. Virtually unperformed
for over 300 years, it shows that where men, women and commitment are
concerned, little has changed over the centuries.
The venue is the Quaker Meeting House and it runs from
August 17-29 (not 23).
Hopefully some members will make the journey north to
see both shows
5 May: Further photos from our successful trip to the
Isle of Man at Easter are now available on the Breaking the Code
page.
22 April. Alan Ayckbourn's play Time Of My Life is THIS
WEEK - book tickets now on 020 7723 6609. This is our entry into the Barnet
Borough Drama Awards for 2009. Further details in the current newsletter.
Also this week: Adam Sutcliffe is appearing as Merriman
in The Importance of Being Earnest at Questors Theatre Ealing.
And... calling all Tap dancers - TapHeart, an American
Tap workshop, with Rusty Frank (one of the US's best known tap teachers), is
taking place over the late Bank Holiday Weekend. Download a flier here.
19 April: Isle of Man success! Our now almost
annual trip to to the Manx Amateur Drama Festival resulted in our best-ever
results. Breaking The Code,
originally seen last December Upstairs at the Gatehouse, was voted the
audience's favourite show of the week and Richard Kinder was awarded Best
Actor for his performance as Alan Turing. Awards also went to Fred Griessen
for Best Supporting Actor and Paula Morris for Best Supporting Actress. See photos on the MADF website.
06 April: Latest copy of newsletter available online by
clicking HERE. Also newly
available, our Production Notes document - lots of tips for new and
experienced directors. Go to the downloads page (link at top) or click HERE.
26 February: The Railway Children opens this Friday! Buy
your tickets now!
18 February: Set building for The Railway Children is
this weekend! So get yourself down to the theatre and help out - all welcome.
We'll be there Sat and Sun from 10 till 5.
3 Feb: Following an extremely interesting and
informative Lighting Workshop I have added a guide to using lighting gels
onto the downloads page, where there are also lots of
other useful techical documents as well as the current GST diary.
28 Added: a review of
Breaking the Code by Leonie Stephens in the Garden Suburb News.
3 Jan. Look on our Facebook pages
for pictures of the New Year's Eve party...
11 December. Click HERE
to see photos of Breaking the Code.
10 December: The audition notice for Time
of My Life is up on the auditions
page. Also, a list of our lighting
equipment, compiled by David Lane, is now available to download
from our Downloads page.
9 December: Breaking the Code was an amazing show, and
played to packed houses every night.
3 December: This week:
Breaking the Code,
Upstairs at the Gatehouse. Go to the
Breaking the Code page to read GST member Jean Neal's fascinating personal
account of her time at Bletchley Park.
21 October - the whole cast photo from Romeo and Juliet is now
online.
17 October 2008. Photos of The Old Masters at I Tatti are now online;
click HERE
to go to the Old Masters page.
29 September. Pictures of the Big Birthday Bash can be seen by
clicking HERE
5 September: Around the World audio CDs are now available; cost £5
plus £1.50 p&p. If you'd like to buy one, email Terry on
chairman(at)gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk
28 July: Audition details for Breaking the Code are now available CLICK
HERE
24 July:A reminder about our Blanket Banquet (aka GST picnic!) this
Saturday; 1pm at Golders Hill Park - for full details CLICK HERE.
Plus a reminder from Vanessa that the deadline for the next
newsletter is Monday 11 August - all contributions welcome, email to the usual address.
18 July: Romeo and Juliet continues to critical acclaim - there are
still three more performances so do come along tonight or tomorrow.
The One Act Play Festival last weekend was a huge success. Hundreds
of people watched over the two days, and it was fantastic to share drama and
fun with old and new friends from around the country. Tea and cake was
enjoyed on Saturday afternoon, and apparently there have been several
requests for the recipe for the ginger cake, so here it is The Chairman's Low Fat Centenary Ginger Cake.
3 July: Romeo and Juliet rehearsals are reaching their final stage. There
are some amazing fights, choreographed by actor Dave Lear:
2 July: Please note there will be no performance
of Romeo and Juliet on Tuesday 15th July, due
to licensing regulations. At the performance on Monday 14th tickets will be 2
for the price of 1.
20 June: "Mischief" now has its own
page. Click here for up to date details of the
schedule
9 June: Mischief in the Wood. (FREE EVENT)
We now have confirmation of most of the
plays that will form our One Act Play festival.
Three groups including ourselves have opted
(independently) for one of Alan Ayckbourns five interlinked Confusions plays.
Confirmed so far:
Between Mouthfuls
by Alan Ayckbourn presented by the Little Heath and Potters Bar Players
Saturday Sunday Monday
by Eduardo de Filippo presented by the Incognitos
Five Blue Haired Ladies Sitting On A Green
Park Bench by John A Penzotti presented by Bejou
Productions
The Garden Suburb Junior School presents...
Gosforth Fete
by Alan Ayckbourn presented by the Garden Suburb Theatre
A Talk In the Park
by Alan Ayckbourn presented by the Martelloes
Singing In the Wilderness
by David Campton, presented by the Kings Langley Players
Plus more to be confirmed. And entry to all
these performances is FREE to all!
Friday July 11 at 7.30pm
Saturday July 12 from 3pm - 9pm
Little Oak Wood
30 May: David Brown sends us
news of The Wild Goose Chase, a romantic comedy by John Fletcher which he is
directing for the Ealing Shakespeare Players at the Questors Theatre from 18
- 21 June. Eugene Smith stars. More info HERE.
16 May: More about An Evening with "Flanders and Swann"
For more information about this event, click HERE
to go to the Evening with Flanders and Swann page.
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