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Parallel Diary: Rehearsal Week 2, April 10th – April 13th

Week Two Schedule You can refer to the scenes below by downloading the script here. Tuesday 12th April (St Mary’s Church) Sc13. The Trespassers ;  Act 2 Bed Scenes Wednesday 11th April (St Mary’s Church) Sc14 Holly Hill Kitchen   Sc 34 Lets Straighten Things Out Thursday 12th April (The Pavilion) Sc9 A Brace of Poets;...

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Parallel Diary: March 29th – April 1st

Thursday, March 29th 3pm Meeting with Laura (Designer) Youth Hut, Hartfield Laura Stanfield and I worked together on the last community Play, Matters of Chance, in East Grinstead, which is about nine miles from Hartfield. That was Laura’s first community play and she did an amazing job. However imaginative or talented a theatre professional is,...

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April 1st Full Cast Call

The Individual and the Group

14 November 2011 - “Every human endeavour however singular it seems involves the whole human race” Jean Paul Sartre Groups are of fundamental importance, we wouldn’t survive without them. For the majority of our day-to-day lives we are occupied with groups. We work, socialise and play in groups. They are representative of our interests, views,...

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Camden Road Group Workshop

The simple act of asking the audience

07 April 2011 - I’m fond of telling the story of a particular moment that won me over to the idea of the community play. In 1981 I had travelled down from Norfolk to Dorset to see a new phenomenon I’d been hearing so much about, Ann Jellicoe’s third community play, The Poor Man’s Friend...

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