Hey everybody,
Right, was at the final 'One Act Wonder' meeting today before the
festival kicks off (weep). Just a few things I thought ye should know.
First of all, Martin French wanted it to be known that he was not
impressed by the condition of his buzzer-thingy when it was returned to
him. Apparently, he had explained how it was to be used when he gave it
to us but he could tell straight away from looking at it that it hadn't
been used properly. Oh, and the battery was missing (Eoghan and I had a
look around the store room but couldn't find it).
Right so, as you all know (I hope), the festival kicks off next Monday
at 7:30 in St. Pat's. Both DCU shows are on the Monday (possibly
Aisling's play to close the night?) along with entries from St. Pat's
and DIT. DIT, St. Pat's & Mater Dei all have shows on both the
Tuesday and Wednesday nights also. Workshops begin at 4pm on the
Thursday. As Shane mentioned at the meeting on Monday, there will be
another bout of 'Whose Line is it Anyway?' as well as a stage-combat
workshop and random another workshop with Martin as facilitator.
As well as the three pieces resulting from the workshops, there will be
a few other random performances (including an excerpt from All My
Sons). The awards ceremony is then set to begin at 9:30 with drinks and
karaoke afterwards.
Now, we're gonna need a few people to help out during the course of the
week. Martin has requested one person from each of the three founder
colleges to act as stage-manager/stage-assistant for the week. Ideally
they'd have some experience of working backstage. First name that
springs to my mind is Ashley, whatcha reckon? Also, we need a
representative from DCU to for 'front of house' each night. I'll e-mail
the storm-troopers for this. Any suggestions for who might be
interested/persuaded? We also need to nominate somebody to participate
in 'Whose Line' (perhaps somebody who hasn't already taken part) and
possibly somebody else to host.
Now, I was also asked about getting two lights on sticks (I'm pretty
sure there's a more technical way of saying that...) for the awards
ceremony. Would you be able to tell me anything about this Eoghan? I
told them I'd look into it but I wasn't sure if it'd be viable.
Most importantly, we need big crowds to come along (especially on the
Monday night). Maybe we could have an early committee meeting and all
head down afterwards? I'm going to e-mail the general membership now
and let them know but it'd be cool if ye could all *really* push the
festival over the next few days.
Righto, to bed, to bed,
Joey