Rightyy, sorry for my increduliously slow response to your epic narrative. Re the paint, im for anything that costs loss, provided value is the same, so 20 is less than 500, and eoghan is a lot better than the spc!! Im intrigued by the marie-louise project, please tell more. Regarding elaine, i agree with your idea. Most of the committee are up to their armpits in projects at the moment, so letting someone of elaine's experience handle something this big is a good idea. What happenend with the tape thing today? i know i said id be there, but rehersals kinda ate up a wee bti of time If im in the country on paddy's day., ill have no problem giving a dig out. NEWS!! regarding the play in dit, its on the 2,3,4 march in the teacher's club, parnell st. tickets €6, any takers, and if so, give me some numbers and ill get the tickets booked. bye, for now... On 16/02/06, Roibeard O Mhurcu <dramabob@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Committee!
Grab a cuppa and READ TO THE END.
There are a few things that have popped up this week since the meeting that we need to look into...
PAINT:
Right, as by now most of you should be aware, the SU is not happy with the state of the floor of the Venue, after the painting of the set for All My Sons. They've gone off and found a quote for 500 euro for cleaning, which strikes me as just a touch too much.
Eoghan has proposed that he clean the floor on Tuesday next upon his return from for'n parts, for a measly 20 bucks. I like this plan.
With that in mind, the first proposal that I have for the committee is that Eoin O Callaghan (being the secretary) write to the lovely Sarah Farrell and extend our offer to clean the Venue ourselves, at a drastically reduced rate. Explain that we would rather clean up our own mess than have an outside company do it and be charged.
MARIE-LOUISE:
Marie-Louise O Donnell, our erstwhile president (as some of you may know) has left her position in the Helix and has returned to DCU to lecture. She also has a grand vision and and a plan to put on a vocal chorus-type show that was written by a student some years ago. The student in question was a paraplegic and spent several years writing this piece (his thesis) one letter at a time. It is an intriguing proposal, and will require a chorus of about 50 and at least a year to prepare. Marie-Louise is foaming at the mouth at the prospect of organising this and has collared me on several occasions to wax lyrical about this project.
I think it has the potential to be an absolutely unique production and is the sort of thing that could catapult DCU Drama into the realms of national exposure, which is never a bad thing...
Marie-Louise wants to get cracking on this as soon as possible. Because of our heavy involvement with Merchant and the upcoming musical, we may be stretched a little thin if we attempt to tackle this whale of a project. Marie-Louise has been speaking to Elaine Bannon about the project quite a bit, and has always had a good rapport with her. Elaine herself has offered to drive the bus for us on this one, as she realises that we're a bit swamped. Because of these factors, the second proposal that I have this evening is:
That we contact Elaine and ask her (officially) to be the liaison with Marie-Louise for this production. It is intruiging and we shouldn't let it get past us.
DANIEL BEVAN & TAPE:
The Bevster texted me yesterday wanting to know what the story was with getting the Helix and all manner of other stuff related to his play, "Tape." If Dave, Eoin and Shane are available, I'd like to arrange a meeting tomorrow at lunchtime, perhaps about 4pm (when I can give about 15 mins before running off to work). We need to sit down with Bev and basically determine what he wants/needs and what we can realistically give him. Budgetwise, Setwise etc. One of our missions is to produce shows that members come to us with and this is no exception. It needs to be made clear to Bev that no, we will not build him a Motel room in the Space - it's pointless. The importance of sticking to a budget is also paramount. And the cast of his show have to be DCU Drama members AND DCU students, for insurance purposes. The show will need a production team also.
Eoin, Dave, Shane? Available at 4pm Friday? Lemme know. Let's not let this drag on forever.
ST. MICHAEL'S HOUSE:
We loved it last year, so did they. If we're gonna do it this year, we do it right. We need a producer and a team. Volunteers? We've got about 7 weeks.
THE MUSICAL:
...has been cast and 4 committee members are principals in the show. Well done to all, but let's not let what happened last year happen again this year (i.e. Drama screeching to a halt because the entire committee were in the musical). We've got lots of other projects on the boil, let's not forget that. Alan Kinsella is already making noises about moving it to week 9 and this is a cataclysmically bad idea because: we already have the Venue booked for week 8 AND week 9 clashes with the Clubs & Socs Awards. Remember last year?
Style Soc have informed our producers that several of their models have been cast and will be needed for fashion show rehearsals AND several cast members are in Merchant and the ISDA-bound "All My Sons." ISDA is the weekend before the musical opens. Great.
The producers want to call a cast meeting early next week to basically remind the cast of their committment to the show. It's on in 5 and a half weeks.
THAT BLOODY ROOM IN ALBERT COLLEGE AND OUR SET:
Martin Conry is officially harder to find than the soap in the bathtub. There exists a room in Albert College for our use, but only 'til the end of the year. We also have to move the set from its present location. I reckon if we move the contents of the SPC equipment room to Albert College (as the set itself will never get up the stairs over there), we'll be able to fit the set into the SPC room. When I informed the SPC chair of this, he was crestfallen. But I made it clear that it was pointless trying to get the set up the narrow stairwells in Albert College. So tough. Essentially, DCU Drama need our own room, somewhere close to the Venue. Aaargh. We need to sort out volunteers for a big Saturday moving job sometime soon.
NURSING PROGRAM:
Mary McGrath, head of the Nursing Faculty, contacted us over Christmas and asked if DCU Drama could help out with their training, providing actors who could simulate symptoms. This would put Drama in the enviable position of contributing to the academic merit of a course in DCU. They'll need some people around April/May and I think we should jump at it. What say you guys?
BUI BOLG / ST. PATRICK'S DAY:
Our Wexford-based puppet friends need about 115 (yes, 115) volunteers for paid work for the St. Patrick's Day Parade. Bui Bolg are headlining the parade, and DCU Drama hava a chance to be part of that. Eoin is working on the details as we speak.
I'm sure there's more, but you're probably all bored by now.
Later,
Bob
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