The weekend just gone was a blast. It really doesn’t feel like it’s a week since the Thurso Players Blackout crew headed down to Lochgelly in Fife for the Scottish Community Drama Association Youth Finals. Four fabulous youth teams from Caithness (that’s us), Orkney, Aberdour and Dunlop, Ayrshire descended on the Lochgelly Centre to compete…
It’s that time of year again… panto rehearsals are in full swing and I’ve been asked to produce a musical next year. Excellent stuff. Well it can be. Now, since I started working backstage in our local theatre I have noticed one thing that can really cause problems. Badly formatted, set out and written scripts….
Attending an SCDA acting and directing workshop this weekend (and it was a rather fabulous one too, one that got me acting for the first time in years) gave me the idea for this week’s post. A post on the importance of editing for theatrical types. Now I won’t lie, it’s difficult to think of…