DCU DRAMA COMMITTEE MEETING * * *Agenda: **Sunday, October 7th, 2007*** * * * * - Ratification of last meeting's minutes - Any matters arising from the minutes - EGM - Calendar - Update on projector screen - Update on AIB sponsorship - Musical – producers - Musical – venue, St Pat's? - Musical – set - Workshops in set or tech? - LOAFS – any plays lined up? - Stars in Their Eyes – with or without MPS? - Website licence - Sexy sketching models for Shag Week - Get Alan off the mailing list - Chair's address to the committee - AOB *EGM:* - Monday at 7pm in CG12** *- Pauric to send out an announce drama tonight about the EGM* - set up a stand in the Hub between 4pm and 6pm before the meeting - sell raffle tickets and promote the EGM at the stand - have a bit of music playing *- Alan, Conor, Megan and Fiona to mind the stand* - committee to meet between 6pm and 7pm in CG12 - sell tickets before the meeting while people are getting settled down *- Alan to hand out the membership cards at the beginning of the meeting* *- Megan to organise sheets where people can write down what they're interested in* - include dance, tech, set, producing, directing, etc. - pass it around at the beginning of the meeting and pick it up again at the end - show clips from Six Semesters and last year's drama video first *- Conor to sort out the projector and cable* - discussion of roles on committee, short and sweet - plans for the year, each committee member gets a bit to say - sort out who's saying what before the meeting starts - say that we're particularly looking for producers for the musical - it's a lot of hard work but it's really rewarding - shouldn't be first years, need experience - Tech Officer to be elected - First Year Rep to be elected - Broadway raffle, get Cian to pick the name out or else some random first year, or maybe the First Year Rep - Broadway places will be picked out of a hat - everyone who is going into the hat has to have the €200 with them - heading to the nuBar afterwards *- Pauric to ask nuBar about catering, maybe spend €50* *Calendar:* - Pauric has the calendar on his USB key - the musical is Week 9 of Semester 2 *- Yvonne to try and change Play in a Day from Tuesday 13th to Monday 12thof Week 8 * - it will cost €2 to go and see the Play in a Day - don't want to charge money into the weekly workshops - want to move the LOAFS to Thursday of Week 8 and comedy night to Thursday of Week 10 - hopefully the Masquerade Ball will be in Week 3 or 4 of Semester Two, but still need to talk to Style Soc, will put in another grant app for that later *- Pauric to talk to Shea tomorrow* *Update on projector screen:* - projector costs €5000 - screens cost €6000 - Pauric was talking to someone who made the screens themselves - it shouldn't be a cost for drama only because it will be permanently in the Venue so other societies could use it too - maybe the SU would go in with us on it - might need to do a bag pack for it - without getting a projector screen we will have to rent sets - Jenni says there's nowhere really to rent them in Ireland, we would have to rent them from somewhere in England *Update on AIB sponsorship:* - AIB gave us €1000 for the panto - just going to call it general funding - didn't want to do full year's sponsorship - they don't want to be associated with anything dirty like Full Monty or Best Little Whorehouse *Musical – producers:* - if we don't get producers then the committee will have to do it - bring it up at the EGM - will make a definite decision by next Friday *Musical – venue, St Pat's?:* - St Pat's students can be members of DCU societies this year - they have a decent theatre and a good backstage - if we got Pat's involved it would be far less expensive than the Helix - but the Helix gets so much publicity - the Helix is a better location too, DCU students wouldn't go all the way to Pat's - might be worth looking into *Musical – set:* - the stage in the Helix is huge - we would be lost on the stage without a set - we're going to have to rent some sort of set - the projectors from Rocky Horror cost €600 - but would they cover the stage sufficiently? - they might look a bit weird as a set - Megan's brother works in timber but we won't get funding *- Megan to talk to her brother to see if we might get it sponsored* - we should talk to Cian because he's our rep - we have the same problem for the panto - could we get a huge sheet and paint it as a backdrop? - but we would need a proper stage curtain really *- Jenni to look into curtains* *- Pauric to talk to Lisa about using the USIT office as storage space* *- Conor to look into Rent-a-Space places* *- Jenni to put down set rental on the grant app for the moment* *Workshops in set or tech?:* *- Yvonne to talk to Jay about organising a tech workshop* *- Yvonne to talk to Shea about booking the Venue for tech workshop* *- Yvonne to book the Interfaith for this Tuesday's workshop* *LOAFS – any plays lined up?:* - Susan has one - Alan Flanagan has one - Conor, Stephen Grimes, Joey Kavanagh and Eoin O'Neill are interested too - auditions will be in Week 4 - mention that we're looking for plays for the LOAFS at the EGM *Stars in Their Eyes – with or without MPS?:* - MPS are holding an EGM at 7pm on Wednesday in CG86 - we'll find out after that meeting whether they will be a society or not - Alan and Megan would like to produce Stars, yay! - auditions will be in Week 4 *Website licence:* - payment for rental on www.dcudrama.ie - costs about €100, due around December *Sexy sketching models for Shag Week:* - the SU want nude models for Shag Week: em, no… - but maybe people would be willing to pose in underwear for a sketching session - it would be in a closed room - drama people are more likely to do it than most! - Shag Week is in Week 4 *- Pauric to add it to the announce drama* *Get Alan off the mailing list:* *- Pauric and Conor to sort that out* *Chair's address to the committee:* - Pauric was disappointed with our performance on the Clubs and Socs Days - we didn't have energy or bounce L - but we can move forward from this - let's be big and loud and boisterous, because we're drama! JJJJJ *AOB:* - One Act Wonder Festival: if we offer to hold the festival we want it in Week 9 - meeting organised for next Thursday at 7pm, just waiting to hear back from SPD and DIT - ISDA: meeting today was cancelled, apparently there's a meeting at 3pmnext Saturday in UCD - drama blurb, auditions in Week 4 *- Susan to book five rooms in the Henry Grattan, probably CG01 to CG05* - auditioning Stars, Romeo and Juliet, LOAFS and panto - Tuesday 6pm-8pm (including warm up workshop), Wednesday 2pm-6pm, Thursday 6pm-8pm - announce drama: Pauric should send it around to the committee before sending it out to the membership, just in case we want to add more stuff - have to buy the Aladdin script this week, will cost €50 - we won't say the First Year Rep is directing the panto until we check him/her out *Next meeting: **7pm**, **Monday, October 15th, 2007***