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Hartpury Drama Group Newsletter, January 2024.

Angela Gaskell, Secretary:
Email: hartpurydramagroup1973@gmail.com
Address: Nettlecomb House, Highleadon GL18 1HH
Mobile Number: 07807 130901
Another New Logo?
Dear Thesps,

Message from Dave Page

Reminder: dates in your diaries: Autumn 2024 Hartpury Drama Group will be putting on a two-part Blackadder production: The Queen Of Spain’s Beard and Witchsmeller Pursuivant.
To ensure the play's success we need a producer so that we’re ready well in advance for putting on a great show.
Please contact me by email if you are able to fill this important position:
Dave Page: dagwoodp5@gmail.com
Blackadder Audition Date
 Tuesday 3 September 2024 - 7-9 pm
 Hartpury Village Hall

Blackadder Shows (3 nights)
 Thursday 28th November 2024
 Friday 29th November 2024
 Saturday 30th November 2024

Rehearsals
 Starting Tuesday 10th September 2024
 Twice weekly rehearsals will be held:
  Tuesday and Thursday evenings 7-9 pm at Hartpury Village Hall

More details here

Spring 2025 production

Thinking ahead: we need to plan a spring 2025 production and are looking for a director, producer and script.

Dave
Chairperson HDG

Richard Pett announces a second series of Actors’ Workshops:

Several members attended the first series and were very enthusiastic about wanting to continue. All expressed an interest in returning to what will be a monthly workshop.

Drama Workshop

Adult Acting Classes, Spring 2024 at Hartpury Village Hall

Join us for the actors’ workshops starting soon. An introduction/improvement to acting, script writing, devising, improvisation, stage character development, and to learn creative skills.
Start date TBA!

In 2022 Richard held a number of actors' workshops at Hartpury Village Hall and Hartpury Drama Group are delighted to announce that there are more planned for this spring.
Our Acting Classes are the perfect way to build confidence, stretch your creativity and have fun. No previous drama experience is necessary to take part, just bring along enthusiasm and a readiness to try something new and exciting. New and present members are welcome.
If you already enjoy acting, come along to extend and improve the skills you have already acquired.

To register your interest please contact Richard Pett: richardpett2013@gmail.com

  Dear Richard, Yes please! I would like to come along to the Adult Acting Classes.
  My name:
  My phone number:
  My email address:

Topics covered: Improvisation; Voice projection; Play reading; Script writing

So go on... get involved!

Admit One

A poem to keep you going:
Hells Granny

Super-Duper Grannie!

I bought a really cool mobility scooter,
To wheelie and hand-brake turn, apace–
Going straight from nought to six mph,
In 70s flares dug out of an old suitcase.
Donned in suede waistcoat ‘n paisley shirt,
With blue-rinsed hair ‘n looking real cool–
Couldn’t care less whether in fashion,
Nor looking a deranged scatty old fool.
A battery powered kit designed for old gits,
Careering demonically on moby scooter–
Out and about surpassing all ‘n sundry,
Bish-bashing on my squeaky rubber tooter!
Downing shots of ‘free’ vodka ‘n tequila,
Manoeuvring thru’ Lidl; a shoplifting looter–
Headed outdoors on my kamikaze scooter,
A wild-eyed escapee, feeling super-duper!
Doing 0 to 6 a horse-powering tour-de-force,
Super-duper ‘n sloshed I was par excellence–
Handlebars gripped by tight wound fingers,
Zigzagging with an alarming overconfidence.
Then, bugger me, I fell off my moby scooter,
Performing reckless spins, wheelies ‘n dares–
The ambulance guys laughed heartily,
As a nurse cut me free from floral 70s flares.

Gaskell, A.


Cheers,

Angie

Angela Gaskell (HDG Secretary).


MADS Committee, Chair Sheila Wardle, asks us to kindly publicise their next production:

'Holiday Snap'

Directed by Richard Pett

Dave Zeal plays
Sir Piers Marchbanks (Pedro)
Viv Little is in the role of
Mary (Maria)
Angie Gaskell as
Celia Partridge (Mumpots)
Craig Grewcock as
Commander Chittenden (Chico)
Gill Rigler as
Catherine Charlesworth (Kit)

Holiday Snap Poster

Synopsis:
Caig Grewcock plays the role of lead actor ‘Chitto' a bungling and myopic drunk responsible for overbooking a Portuguese time-share. He remains oblivious throughout that he double-booked the apartment to two couples, each on an adulterous week in the Algarve. The scenes in which the two couples resort to broken English as they mistake each other for Portuguese servants are gloriously silly. And just as the men are in danger of coming to blows, on stage arrives Dave Zeal as Henry’s two-timing pal Perky to bring an appropriately farcical end to proceedings.

Holiday Snap Flyer