SABOS Get-together

SABOS would like to invite you and partner to a cold buffet and get-together on Sunday 3rd August, courtesy of Tracy, from 3pm.

A welcoming glass of wine will be available, but if your needs are greater then please bring a bottle of your choice.

The cost is £5.00 per person.

Please contact Tracy on 01786 474881 before 28th July so that catering can be arranged.

We look forward to the pleasure of your company.

(My apologies to Tracy for taking so long to get this posted)

Drama Association of Wales Summer School

I got this in from Gary Thomas, Adminstrator of the Drama Association of Wales. If you're interested, drop me a line and I'll give you his email address.

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Thought our Summer course may be of interest to you and the other members of your drama group. If you would like any further information on the course, please feel free to contact me.
Regards
Gary Thomas – Administrator, Drama Association of Wales

CALLING ALL AMATEUR ACTORS & DIRECTORS ! !
THEATRE SUMMER SCHOOL 2008
A weeklong drama training holiday
Swansea University 10-16 august

Wales based charity, the Drama Association of Wales (DAW), announces the launch of its latest training project – THEATRE SUMMER SCHOOL 2008. A week-long residential training holiday designed for amateur actors and directors. Reap the benefits of a week of working hard and playing hard at our Summer School. And all for the price of a last minute bargain holiday!

BEING BOLD: Steps Towards Braver Productions Summer School 2008 will explore plays with BIG ideas. Working in groups, participants will discover the poetics and structure of the language of plays that ensures vital theatre.
So often during short rehearsal periods, amateur theatre companies are forced to work to tight deadlines. The advantage of a week-long summer school is that it allows the artists to experiment with new, challenging and exciting rehearsal techniques that can invigorate a pressured rehearsal period. The course will encourage the artist to be brave and experiment with new rehearsal techniques that could lead to a more ambitious theatre making process.
Using techniques of Brainstorming, Unitting, Actioning and the discovery of short term and super objectives alongside character motivation the participant will investigate a number of classic and popular texts for large groups of actors with a view to creating exciting, relevant theatre.
At the end of the week there will be the opportunity to show back the work created.

This year’s tutors are Phil Clark and Rebecca Gould… Phil Clark is returning to tutor the 2008 course after excellent feedback from his course last year. Phil has worked extensively in the UK and Europe as a Director and established Britain’s largest annual Youth Theatre Festival. From 1990 to 2006 he was Artistic Director of the Sherman Theatre Company in Cardiff where he prioritised new writing and commissioned over 100 new plays. Phil teaches regularly at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Actors’ Centre London, Tishe School of Performing Arts New York and the National Association of Youth Theatre’s Summer Festival.
Tutoring alongside Phil will be Rebecca Gould who has specialised in directing new plays. Until recently she was Associate Director at the Theatre Royal Plymouth. Currently she is a Learning Associate at the RSC. She has also recently directed as an Education Associate at the National Theatre.

We offer discounts to DAW Individual members which means that you can book on to this course for as little as just £420 And that includes tuition, accommodation and all meals!

To book your place on the course or for full details on the course, please contact Gary Thomas on 029 2045 2200 or email him at (omitted)

Gary Thomas, Drama Association of Wales, The Old Library, Singleton Road, Splott, Cardiff CF24 2ET