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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE  (September 2009)

Steve Lililart has agreed to be our Artist in Residence. A display of his pencil drawings is in the Front Foyer. He will be making sketches of activites around the Centre. A selection of his work is on sale with a percentage of the sales being donated to our Development Fund.

New Writers Workshops (Jan 2008)

for writers and actors 

The Arts Committee are looking at new plays by new writers within Highbury Theatre Centre. 

I am co-ordinating this activity.

Initially, the first objective is to find writers who want to ‘hear’ their work taken off the page.  Therefore, can any budding (or for that matter, experienced) playwrights who would like their work taken off the page contact me to look at including it in the first ‘New Writing’ workshop.  The idea of these workshops is to help writers to work on the structure and dialogue within their scripts (or just to let them hear how it sounds), and also to allow the actors to experience new writing.

 The writing can be of any reasonable length – from a short scene, to a whole play.  The workshops will be structured so that any writing that the group and the writer want to take further can be incorporated in some way (I won’t go into the detail here).  So please realise that we will be unlikely to read a whole 2 or 3 Act play at the first time of reading.
Also, please don’t be shy about putting scripts forward.  At the workshop level, we will read any scripts brought in (although we will have to know how many scripts are being put forward for reading at a workshop). 
We will not vet your script for inclusion in the workshop – the whole idea of the workshop is about providing a creative environment from which things can be built. We also need actors to do this, so any actors who would be interested in reading new writing and working on it with the writer(s) please contact me (email) so I can put you on the list of actors available (include your email address and phone number).
Obviously not everyone will be available for every workshop, so we need as many as possible to be on the list.  Obviously, once we have got the ball rolling and find work that we can submit to the Arts Committee (where it will be vetted), there may be the possibility of having a rehearsed reading in front of an audience (possibly along with other writer’s work). 
Also, there is the further possibility (and I stress the word – possibility) of a script being staged at the theatre within a season of work – but lets not get ahead of ourselves. 

Firstly we need writers.  So if you have a script, or know someone who would like a script read – get in touch.  The first workshop has not yet been scheduled as we don’t know how easy it will be to find the writers. Therefore please bear with us if there is a period of time before the first workshop is carried out.

 All writers should supply the requisite number of scripts when attending a workshop. If you have any questions then feel free to email -or can you email me with a short synopsis, characters and approx length (if you aren’t sure then let me know the number of pages). Or if your piece isn’t yet written out in a dialogue, then provide the outline and an idea of the characters (we can always look at improvising around it to give you more ideas).

 A last passing thought.  As you know, we are also putting the next Highbury Theatre Centre Festival (July 2008) together. If you want to write or devise a piece for inclusion within the Festival, this could be a way of kicking that off – just a thought.

Nigel

writingworkshop@highburytheatre.co.uk

Memories of a Highbury Ham.
"Memories of a Highbury Ham" by Reg Tolley (£6.50) available now from the theatre Box Office or by post(P&P £1.00)
Reg is a popular actor with Highbury Players. His journey into theatre began in a West Drayton school at the age of 6 and spans time in both professional and amateur theatre companies. In his book Reg shares memories of plays, places and people he has met along the way.

200 CLUB
As part of fundraising for the ongoing development of theatre resources subscribe £7 (or more) per year for the chance of winning £30, £20 or £10 drawn at each of the Highbury Players 7 main production plays. (Highbury Players or Audience members only)

"Enhancing the Highbury" development proposals brochure (PDF)

New Building
A further step in the Development Programme has been realised with the opening of the new Rehearsal Room( The Harlequin Room) at the rear of the main buildings in June 2006. The room has the same floor area as the main stage and so is well suited for blocking moves.

In June 2009 the infamous Green Hut was demolished and an extended Green Car Park laid.

National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA)
Highbury Players joined NODA during 2006. Highbury Players members may access all areas of the NODA website at www.noda.org.uk. In case of difficulty in access then please contact Admin1