Argyll & Kintyre Drama Festival - 20th-22nd February 200
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:55 pmArgyll & Kintyre Drama Festival
If you've never been, or haven't been for a while, we urge you to come along to the Drama Festival this year, 20th - 22nd February 2008. Long gone are the "luvvies" and the plays chosen to please an adjuducator rather than a paying audience. Rehearsals in a cold and damp village hall need a good page turner to make us want to leave the fire and Coronation Street in the middle of January. The 3 nights generally consist of modern and traditional comedies, dramas and plays put on by up and coming junior members. While it nice to get a piece of silverware, there's not point in doing a play if the audience fall asleep during it! And of course, there's time for a wee G&T between performances....
The festival comes under the umbrella of the Scottish Community Drama Association, and we come under Argyll Kintyre District. As we are performing, there are teams all over Scotland doing the same thing, in the hope that they will be chosen to represent their District, at the "Divisionals", the next round up, and then the "Scottish". Kintyre has on many occasions got as far as the Scottish Finals, where we compete against the best teams from the other areas rounds. All of the teams that take part have managed to go on to represent Kintyre, some more successfully than others, but some with considerable success.
Also this year, we are delighted to be hosting the Junior Divisional Finals in March. The wining junior teams will all be travelling to Campbeltown to compete. In all the other districts the teams perform in their local authority theatres with professional staging and lighting, and when they come to us and perform in the Grammar School they realise the true spirit of "community drama", but the warm welcome they always receive more than makes up for a plush dressing room.
If you've ever fancied getting involved, but don’t want to go on the stage, we are always looking for people to help at the Festival time, so please get in touch and hopefully we'll get you hooked!
See you there.
If you've never been, or haven't been for a while, we urge you to come along to the Drama Festival this year, 20th - 22nd February 2008. Long gone are the "luvvies" and the plays chosen to please an adjuducator rather than a paying audience. Rehearsals in a cold and damp village hall need a good page turner to make us want to leave the fire and Coronation Street in the middle of January. The 3 nights generally consist of modern and traditional comedies, dramas and plays put on by up and coming junior members. While it nice to get a piece of silverware, there's not point in doing a play if the audience fall asleep during it! And of course, there's time for a wee G&T between performances....
The festival comes under the umbrella of the Scottish Community Drama Association, and we come under Argyll Kintyre District. As we are performing, there are teams all over Scotland doing the same thing, in the hope that they will be chosen to represent their District, at the "Divisionals", the next round up, and then the "Scottish". Kintyre has on many occasions got as far as the Scottish Finals, where we compete against the best teams from the other areas rounds. All of the teams that take part have managed to go on to represent Kintyre, some more successfully than others, but some with considerable success.
Also this year, we are delighted to be hosting the Junior Divisional Finals in March. The wining junior teams will all be travelling to Campbeltown to compete. In all the other districts the teams perform in their local authority theatres with professional staging and lighting, and when they come to us and perform in the Grammar School they realise the true spirit of "community drama", but the warm welcome they always receive more than makes up for a plush dressing room.
If you've ever fancied getting involved, but don’t want to go on the stage, we are always looking for people to help at the Festival time, so please get in touch and hopefully we'll get you hooked!
See you there.
