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LETTER
It’s curtains for Sandy

 

“I confess that my heart sinks when I enter a traditional proscenium arch theatre to see an open stage with the scenery already in full view. While waiting for the show to start I find looking at the empty set becoming a bore, and I notice small defects such as drapes not quite fitting, scratches on the furniture, etc. Frankly I miss the frisson of the curtains going up to mark the start of the action and the launch into a world of the imagination, whether it be a scruffy bedsit in Nottingham, or a ball-bearing factory in Swindon.

 

Can there be a tacity agreement that, unless there are prevailing circumstanvces to the contrary, plays in Halls like the Institute start with the traditional Curtains Up (or Across)?”

 

Sandy Morrison

 

Let’s have a debate, eh? Letters by end of February please –Ed

 

 

 

AWARD for LION

 

We have not yet announced that The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe won an award, the Ron Kench Award for drama, awarded by the National operatic and Drama Association (NODA)

 

Richard Kinder wishes to congratulate his cast and crew for helping us to achieve yet more recognition for our skilled teams

 

 

 

NEXT THREE SHOWS

after Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

For anyone who has not been to see a show this year and seen this in programmes, for your information the full remaining season is as follows;
March: Fallen Angels

April: Round and Round The  Garden

July/August The Country Wife

 

Auditions are on 12 February for the April Show and on 7th May for the summer show.

 

 

 

ON THE FESTIVAL TRAIL

 

Amy’s View, directed by Bernard Smith which many people enjoyed at the Gatehouse in December, will be submitted as an entry in the Manx Drama Festival at Easter, and Fred Griessen hopes to take Round and Round the Garden to the Wakefield Festival in late May/early June.

 

These festivals allow casts the thrilling experience of working on a Matcham Theatre stage with a guaranteed large audience. It would be nice to win prizes, we have already picked up a few small ones over the years, but it’s the excitement that matters most.

 

 

 

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