Hello all,

Dara here. I'd just like to clear up a few things - all our fault.

We're simply waiting on some guy who apparently has control over all the websites in UCC to let the submission form for the festival go up on our website ( www.ucc.ie/dramat/ISDA).

Once he's done that we'll start accepting submssions to this e-mail ( dramat.ucc@gmail.com) and allocating as many slots as we can, just to make this clear though: it is not a case of first come first serve, although if that makes you get back to us faster then please feel free to think that this is the case. Since we haven't received any objections to the date for the close of submissions being moved to the 23rd of this month (Feb) by now we'll assume every college is comfortable with this.

If at this point there is still extra slots (there may not, what with so many new colleges) then they will be lotteried off at the ISDA council meeting in UCD on that weekend.

By early the next Monday an e-mail will be sent to all of you giving you the time-table for the festival, we would suggest that at this point each college get their shit in gear as regards getting rights for their plays.

FAQ:
You will be able to express a preference for a theatre in the application form.
Please contact our individual tech managers if you need any additional information re the theatres, keeping in mind there is most of what  you would need on the website (some in downloadable form). Their e-mails are up on the website, if you'd like to talk to our overall tech manager it's Maria ( mariamoynihan@gmail.com).
We will be putting up a seperate fringe application form and we really would like to get at least a few responses.
Recommended accomodation will be listed on the website shortly.

Could we ask that everyone who receives this e-mail send a quick reply with simply the name of your college in the text (unless you have something more to talk about of course), this is basically a roll call of those who are interested in a slot for our own sanity. Do this now! Please.

We'd also like to apologise if we caused any trouble to any of you with all our date changing, I hope this e-mail clears things up.

See you all soon,
Dara & Eve

Please feel free to e-mail us if you have any general issues and keep checking the website.