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AGM / Awards Night

It is hard to believe that it will soon be couple of months since we packed the Byley Community Hall. Even if the temperature outside was far from a July summer evening it certainly got warm inside with standing room only. Byley Village Players did a splendid job for us and thanks again to Bollington, Chester and Moulton for putting on extracts in front of a super-critical audience!

The BIG news at the AGM / Awards was the setting up of our web site. I have asked Ian (who knows about these things to tell you more).

The CTG Web Site

The web site has been set up as a quick reference for members and a means of advertising themselves. The web site can be found at www.ctguild.org.uk and it will be changed at regular intervals. On the site is a list of every member society and a page for their details. At present this contains the details from the handbook with the CONTACT ADRESSES AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS OF OFFICIALS REMOVED. This is because of the data protection act, you will need to decide what information you wish to be published and let us know. This years handbook form will contain the additional request details. Also on the site is copies of the newsletters and the list of awards and photographs of the winners. Groups with their own web sites will have automatic links from our site, which is now listed in the leading amateur theatre web sites in the UK and also in the Cheshire county Council web site so you have a chance to advertise yourselves not just locally, but nationally and internationally. Even if you don’t have your own web site this can be used to your advantage.

Form Filling Again

Sorry but at this time of year we ask you to fill in the usual forms to update our records.

There is NO INCREASE in affiliation or adjudication fees.

We always take the advice of our treasurer when this matter is discussed so you have Margaret to thank and also the adjudicator Garth Jones who is working for a very nominal fee with a small subsidy from CTG. Margaret will be happy with a small G&T when you next see her ( I have not yet fornd out what Garth’s tipple is ! ). We hope you will all affiliate again and will agree that the setting up of the web site adds more value to your CTG sub, it will keep you informed and give you publicity.

Adjudications

Please get your requests in as soon as possible even if you have yet to choose a play. Please take note of the footnote on the adjudication request re nominations for awards.

Angie Lands a TV Role

Former CTG Committee member Angie Orme will be on your TV screen in the Autumn in the BBC2 drama “Cops” .

For an actress who only graduated last September, Angie’s first television experience is a dream come true.
“When I found I had got the part I was totally elated - about 6 ft in the air”, said Angie.
“They had been auditioning for weeks, including some familiar faces from television and theatre, and I was the last one left”.
“I had to go through five auditions before eventually being told I had got the part”.
Angie was given the script there and then and locked herself away in a hotel room for four days to learn the script thoroughly.
Angie describes her character as “a very determined woman who is not averse to a bit of swearing”, but she will not give too much away at the moment.
To learn more you will have to watch the series and in particular Angies episodes, five and six.

And Finally

Not one but two extract s from “A touch of the Memoirs” by Donald Sinden.

These came from the GMDF newsletter and I know that Vicki Williams will not mind me using these as she pinches bits from the CTG newsletter!

A young actor in rep hated his leading man. He kept a diary, and in it he daily confided all the details of his obsession. “Tonight he killed my exit round”. “Tonight he ruined my first scene”. “Tonight he coughed on my best laugh line”. Then came “Monday 6.15pm. Dear diary tonight at last I am going to get the better of him. We open a new play and I have a speech fifteen minutes long, downstage in the light facing the audience . He is upstage sitting at a desk with his back to the audience, writing a letter. I must win”.

A slightly drunken hand added “11.45pm would you believe it? He drank the ink”.

A young actor was studying the psychology of the character of Hamlet and asked an older actor if he thought that Hamlet had actually ever been to bed with Ophelia. “I don’t know about the West End laddie, but we always did on tour”, the old actor replied.