Amateur Stage Magazine

Editor wrote a new blog: "GETTING THE MOST OUT OF FACEBOOK".

Facebook represents an unprecedented method for amateur theatre groups to communicate with their  audiences around the UK and indeed world-wide but many groups are getting it wrong, reports Douglas Mayo.Over the past few years, the importance ...

Editor wrote a new blog: "RSC ANNOUNCES SHORTLSITED SCHOOLS FOR NATIONAL WRITING CHALLENGE".

THE RSC ANNOUNCES EIGHT SHORTLISTED SCHOOLS FROM THEIR NATIONAL WRITING CHALLENGE To celebrate the launch of Write Here Write Now with Matilda, the groundbreaking free online resource for schools, the RSC set a National Writing Challenge ...

Publicity The Seagull - July 2013. For details see here: http://www.gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk/shows/2013/Seagull/

Morven The Lyric Club are pleased to announce their autumn 2013 Production will be 'The Steamie'. This will be performed in the new state-of-the-art Drama Studio in Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Pollokshields, Glasgow from Wednesday 16th - Saturday 19th October 2013.For more information about the casting please go to www.lyricclub.net Expressions of interest in auditioning should be e-mailed to Morven McCallum, Secretary, The Lyric Club, on morvenmcc@lyricclub.net Auditions are this Sunday (19th May) at 2.30pm and will be held in the Minerva Club Rooms, 59 Burnbank Terrace, Glasgow G20 6UQ.

Editor wrote a new blog: "HUGH BONNEVILLE RETURNS TO HIS ROOTS".

Paul Roseby, CEO and Artistic Director of the NYT, announced that former NYT member Hugh Bonneville had been named as a Patron of the National Youth Theatre. Bonneville said: “I am delighted to become a patron of the National Youth ...

Editor wrote a new blog: "NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE BREAKING NEW GROUND".

Paul Roseby, Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain yesterday announced that the company’s 2013 season would see the creation of a new Rep Company for 15 young actors, who will perform in all three shows in rep at ...

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Mark Shaw We are currently casting for Whistle Down The Wind which we will be performing at the Wyllyotts Theatre Potters Bar in October 2013. Any parts not cast next week will be subject to open auditions on Tuesday 21st May. For more information see www.elods.org.uk

RonNicol My "POCKET SIZED PLAYS", published by New Theatre Publications in December 2012 are "great fun and highly recommended" in the Summer edition of Scene magazine. Thanks for the review.

Nell Attention all actors, auditions this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening for the Transcend summer festival, Central London, Helen Niland is looking for actors and crew for A KIND BOWL @ St Giles Summer Festival of Performance Arts http://amdram.co.uk/classifieds/auditions-a-kind-bowl/

ISCaD Rehearsing "A Taste of Marmite". Watch this space and book your ticket.

mrjamiemarcus Due to relocation, we have for sale several items. A wishing well, a scenic foot bridge, Aladdin style washing machine, single wooden bed, plinth(for laying a body on). For full details please contact Lindsey on 01522 839177 or email info@dtcproductions.co.uk

Lees Street CC AMDS Online booking now live! book tickets for our fabulous play "Anne's Diary" - £4! www.ticketsource.co.uk/leesstreettheatre

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Thanks to all who supported our production of 'Theft' we had very positive feedback and all the hard work with rehearsals and set paid off!!! The players are holding their AGM on Wednesday 22nd May at Copdock Village Hall at 7.30pm. We hope to ...

Brenda Stafford Players are presenting the moving, gripping, Award winning drama "Proof" by David Auburn from Tuesday May 14th to Saturday 18th in the Malcolm Edwards Theatre at Stafford's Gatehouse. Our last two shows played to capacity audiences, so don't miss out! For more details go to www.staffordplayers.co.uk. Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/staffordplayers.

Editor wrote a new blog: "SPAMALOT AVAILABLE FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL GROUPS".

Remember you heard it here first.   Our friends at Theatrical Rights Worldwide have just been in touch to give us the latest regarding the UK release of rights for SPAMALOT.   Because of the success of the West End ...

MMTC wrote a new blog: "Welcome to my Party!".

Mayhem Musical Theatre Company hosts the Theatre World award winning The Wild Party at the LOST Theatre in Wandsworth from 16th till 18th May 2013.   Based on Joseph Moncure March’s popular 1928 poem with a daring and destructive ...

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Linda L Everton Village Players Audition Dates for "Bunkered" by Lynn Brittney on Sunday June 9th at 7.30 pm at Everton Village Hall near Doncaster, DN10 5BB. Somewhere near the coast in Britain is a Naval Intelligence Cold War Bunker manned by four naval personnel nearing retirement. Only, as far as the Royal Navy is concerned, the bunker was decommissioned in 1991 and the staff made redundant.. except somehow the staff all slipped through the net and continued to receive monthly pay cheques. Peter, a Chief Petty Officer with a strong sense of responsibility, and the nearest to retirement age, decides to being a friend in to bring all the equipment up to full working order. Imagine the alarm at Naval HQ when they start to get signals from what they thought was a defunct facility. Time to call in the Marines - with of course hilarious consequences! If you are interested in auditioning, please email publicity@evertonvillageplayers.co.uk or call/text Linda on 07891 544707

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Josh Little Theatre Leicester Outside Edge Audition Dates: Monday 10th & Friday 14th June 2013 @7.00pm in the Haywood Studio Rehearsals begin July 22nd 2013 @ 52 Production Date: 9-14th September 2014 Director: Andrew Joshi A Comedy by Richard Harris. Set in a cricket pavilion. Do Roger and Miriam really have the perfect marriage? Does Ginnie really have a cold? And will little Kev persuade big Maggie to leave the bricklaying and watch him play for once? Roger has enough trouble assembling his cricket team to play against the British Railways Maintenance Division Reading East, but these complications pall before those occurring among their various wives and girlfriends. As a final catastrophe, rain starts to fall. Characters Roger: (late 30’s) Roger is the team captain who seems to enjoy being the leader more than actually playing cricket. Likes to think of himself as a great leader of men and organiser but in reality most of the organising is done by his wife. Outwardly he and Miriam have a perfect marriage but there is in fact very little in the way of affection between the two and when he says I Love You it’s usually just to keep her happy and not because he really means it. Miriam: (about 35) Miriam has put up with Roger's cold and almost uncaring attitude for many years and hides all her frustration behind her beaming smile and sunny personality. Miriam is the real organiser of the team but she lets Roger take all the credit for it as she knows it makes him happy. She becomes increasingly frustrated as the play goes on and finds it more and more difficult to keep it in. Kevin: (30) The closest thing Roger has to a real friend on the team and the demon spin bowler. Married to Maggie whom he adores despite their explosive relationship. He often behaves like a petulant child sulking when things don't go his way and blowing hot and cold with Maggie over her mothering of him. Short Man Maggie: (28) Kevin's wife who adores him but often behaves more like his mother than his wife. Like a mother she is very good at dealing with Kevin when he gets in a sulk. Maggie is not a stereotypical woman and is more at home doing DIY than domestic chores. Taller than Kevin by a foot Bob: (late 30’s) Bob is married to Ginnie but still spends a lot of time with his ex-wife doing odd jobs mainly out of guilt. Bob has a constantly guilty expression and never seems to be able to say not to anyone. Despite his faults Bob is a down to earth sort who has no time for pretentious phonies like Dennis and arrogant show offs like Alex. Ginnie: (Mid 30’s) Bob's long suffering second wife. She arrives unannounced at the match when Bob has left to visit his ex-wife leaving Miriam to try and cover for him. Ginnie's relationship with Roger and Miriam is strained to say the least as Roger was very fond of Bob's ex-wife and Ginnie views Miriam as an interfering busy body who spends too much time worrying about other people's marriages and not paying enough attention to her own declining one. It is Ginnie who first hints to Miriam about Roger's little indiscretion in Dorking. Slight Northern Accent. Dennis: (Mid 40’s) Dennis is a carpet salesman who likes to give the impression he is a well-connected self-made man. Dennis also fancies himself as a ladies man but just comes across as a letch. In an effort to get people to like him he gets equipment for the team which he gives them at a reduced price claiming he gets it wholesale when in fact he has paid full price. Alex: (early 20’s) Alex is a lawyer who, perhaps for this reason alone, is much disliked by Bob - although in truth, if only out of jealousy, there are plenty of reasons to dislike this character; if his abundant snobbery and good looks aren't enough, he is also by far the best batsman on the team. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, Alex is also the only unmarried male in the play - but makes up for this with nothing less than a pole dancer girlfriend who, in one comic moment in the play, feels the need to lock herself in the toilets due to her treatment by Alex. Sharon: (20) Sharon is Alex's latest girlfriend who like most of the women he tends to attract isn't overly furnished in the brain department. She feels very out of place at the cricket club and the fact that Alex ignores her doesn't make things any better. She ends up locking herself in the toilets and having hysterics. If you have are interested in auditioning or are not able to make either date please get in touch as soon as possible to make alternative arrangements. All ages are a Guide Only. Please read the play before the audition. Andrew Joshi 07715421020 anjoshi@gmail.com