3 weeks in!

It's been some time since my last post - things have been a bit hectic what with one thing and another. We've just had the third week of shows with Drew Young's 2 short plays: 2001 (Almost) & Abduction of the Innocents along with Deborah Leslie's Clock Oan the Waa'. All well received and good feedback from the Lounge audience at the Lemon Tree.

The next scheduled play (Catriona Yule's Birdhouse) has unfortunately been postponed as we've had a few probs with actors dropping out at the last minute. But hey - ho! The next one up is Gavin Cunningham's WLTM (December 16/17.

Auditions

With auditions approaching, we should be casting for all the plays and appointing directors. We've booked the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen for Saturday 4th and the Thistle Hotel (Union Terrace) for the Sunday the 5th.

Col

Pre-launch Event

The pre-launch event at the Lemon Tree in ABerdeen went really well - loads of folk came along to find out what is happening. Our sign-up lists for actors, directors etc are looking very healthy and we hae a huge amount of contact details to add to our records. Auditions are scheduled for October 4th & 5th - don't know where yet! Woo-hoo...

Colin

Re-Writes

It's getting close - that time when all the plays have to be in! Posters and brochure are well under way and writers and getting excited. Tuesday 16th at the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen is our pre-launch evening for actors, directors and anyone else who wants to lend a hand. woo-hoo!

Col

The Plays

Hurrah! We've selected the plays WAC are going to produce and identified those that need a little development work to get them to professional standard. All together, there are 13 plays including a couple of shorts. When we've informed all the writers, we'll be getting them in for a meeting to go through the "ifs" and "buts" of the festival as well as looking for ideas for "blurbs" and posters.

Writers

The WAC meeting last week was highly entertaining for all involved. Two writers came along (both had submitted scripts to the playwriting competition) and both plays were well written and provoked several discussions.

Money!

Last week we heard we've been succesful in our bid for funding (Hoorah!) so of course the reality of having to do what we said we'd do is now kicking in. The plan is to produce ten new plays in as many weeks. As yet we are still waiting for the final entries in the second round of the playwriting competition we launched in an effort to discover new talent and find these ten plays. The closing date for final entires is June 5, so the next step will be to meet the winning writers and look at casting - actors, directors technicians etc.

I've just started putting together ideas for publicity, including the first leaflet advertising all ten plays. This will be superseded by a wee booklet further down the line.

Colin B-)