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Please Help Us! We need to know the sort of courses you would be most likely to find useful. Enclosed is a simple form for you to fill in and return after discussing this with your membership. Thank you for your assistance. Sound and Lighting Workshop Without waiting for your reply we have arranged a Sound and Lighting workshop for March 24th at The Club Theatre Altrincham. – this type of course has always gone down well in the past and as the booking form explains this course is designed to have a wide appeal. The course is aimed at persons who have little or no knowledge of sound and lighting but would like to learn. It will cover the basics of lighting a set and then cover the different types of stage light and use of special effects. Hands on demonstrations and practical work will be included. First Aid Course. Most of you probably have has at some time an accident backstage or someone taken ill during a show. How do you deal with this? Do you pay for St Johns Ambulance or the Red Cross to attend your shows, or do you rely on someone present having first aid experience. With today’s litigious society this could be an expensive matter. The guild is considering arranging a full one or two day first aid course leading to a recognized certificate. The cost for this course would be around £25 per student as we would have to hire a qualified company / group to do the course. As long as enough people are interested the Guild Committee will investigate further Please indicate your interest on the course questionnaire. Better Late Than Never Enclosed with your newsletter (if you were a winner) is the photographs taken at the awards evening in June 2001. These appeared on the CTG web-site and were then mislaid (don’t ask!) – however, they now come to you with the compliments of Cheshire Theatre Guild. One Act Play Festival We now have an adjudicator and very soon a venue. All we now need is your support! Watch out for the dates and details very soon. Bollington Festival Players on TV Bollington Festival Players production of “Comfort and Joy” by Mike Harding had a very exciting night when BBC2 cameras descended upon them during the Friday night performance. Amongst the audience was the MP for Macclesfield Nicholas Winterton who is a great supporter of Amateur Theatre in his constituency. Mr Winterton completed 30 years in parliament in October and BBC2 were producing a documentary on his three decades of service to Macclesfield. They had followed him around his constituency all day culminating in his visit to the Arts Centre where he was filmed enjoying a very funny play. One of the Festival Players members, Doreen Young, was on the selection committee who appointed Mr Winterton as the Conservative candidate back in 1971. She was interviewed by the Political Correspondent for the North West, Jim Hancock, who was very interested in her first hand knowledge of the MP’s activities. The programme eventually went out on BBC2’s North Westminster at 1pm on Sunday 4th November. Your Flexible Friend No not the credit card that helped buy all those Christmas goodies, but adjudicator Garth Jones. Why flexible? Well because Garth is sometimes asked for adjudications at very short notice and because Garth doesn’t like to say no these are usually fitted into his busy schedule of visits. In certain festivals late entries would not even be considered – they would be immediately returned. Cheshire Theatre Guild consider themselves to be a “friendly festival” and the more adjudications the better, but please give as much notice as you can. Please note that our overworked adjudicator will not be available from February 17th to 23rd and dates in the week before that are now all taken – this means there will be delays in getting adjudications to you during this busy period so please make allowances. Amateur Stage Recent articles about Cheshire Theatre Guild members productions. In the December issue there was a one and a half page report on The Club Theatre’s World Premiere production of “The Devil at Midnight”. In the January issue there was a one page report on Tudor Players production of “Quartet”. (Since publication it has been confirmed that Tudors will be taking the play to the Isle of Man Easter Festival). Both the articles and many, many more about events in the North West are written by Irene Rostron. Our greatful thanks to Irene for putting our area very much on the map – a real labour of love because Itene tells me she receives no payment from Amateur Stage Magazine for her articles. Free Publicity Yes that’s right free national publicity (don’t switch off if you are not on the internet). Enclosed with this newsletter is a brochure about an internet site that carries free publicity about your group and your productions. UKVillages.co.uk is the web address and once you have entered the site you can add information about your society and productions ant it will appear not just under the town or village you play in but on every town and village site within a 5 mile radius. If you don’t have access to the internet perhaps one of your members does, or you can go to your local library where they will be able to give you access to the internet and assistance if you so wish. Just In We have recently received this Email via the Cheshire Theatre Guild web site (we are known even in Japan) if anyone is interested please contact Keiichi Ogata directly. Keiichi Ogata
And Finally The lighter side of life and nothing to do with drama!. The following questions and answers were collated from last years GCSE papers (taken from the GMDF Cues newsletter of the Greater Manchester Drama Federation – thank you Viki).
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