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2016Autumn 1 sceneAutumn 2016 Youth Final The magazine of Scottish Community Drama SCDA Merchandise A range of merchandise is available with all profits from this venture being donated to SCDA. The range of garments are navy blue colour with gold and light blue embroidery of the SCDA logo. Also available in Fushia Pink. Polo Shirts size XS to XXL £15 Sweatshirts size S to XXL £15 Full Zip or Pullover Hoodies S to XL £20 Garments can be personalised with club name or Individual name. Other sizes quoted for on request. To order please contact:- [email protected] or enquire at Head Office for further details. Our Ebay shop scda12 sells pens, bags, mouse mats and other items. Mouse Mats, Jute Bags and SCDA logo pens are available from Head Office SCENE No. 152 Chairman’s Scottish Charity No. 021397 Retail price for non-members - £4 Chat NATIONAL OFFICE So google maps said 6 Suite 88, Stirling Enterprise Park, Springkerse, hours to Cardiff - and 9 Stirling, FK7 7RP phone: 01786 440077 hours later I made it to National Administrator e-mail: the theatre with 5 [email protected] minutes to spare! National Drama Advisor email : [email protected] However, I made it in www.scda.org.uk time to see the brilliant OFFICE OPENING HOURS winning play from our friends at DAW, who Our staff work flexible hours but the national JUST pipped our own administrator’s normal office hours are Tues-Thurs Studio Theatre Group 8am-3.30pm, so please leave a message and into a very close 2nd someone will get back to you as soon as possible. place, with their own Copy date for next edition : 24th September terrific performance. Future Copy Dates: 3rd December Editorial Statement: It was a privilege to be at the British Finals to represent The editorial committee reserve the right not to SCDA, from where I took home the best wishes of all the print everything that is submitted for Scene. other countries back to pass on to you. I was also very Please email articles to Scene Editor : proud to announce the Geoffrey Whitworth winners, and our [email protected] very own Isabella C Rae as runner up. Well done Isabella, your commitment and that of your club to SCDA is greatly Printed by acknowledged. Monument Press, 42 Abbey Road, Stirling FK8 1LP Phone : 01786 474763 Fax: 01786 451520 email: [email protected] Believe it or not - arrangements are already starting for our turn in 2018 - don't pick up the phone, it may be me to ask you to do a job! SCDA LIBRARY SERVICE And now I'm looking forward to our 90th Birthday celebration at Pitlochry on the 23rd of July, where we can relax and chat and not have to worry about performance nerves, and more importantly, eat drink and be merry! From chatting to my fellow National Chairs in Cardiff it struck me how strong we are as an association, how lucky we are to be in a stable financial situation and to have such NATIONAL LIBRARY, EDINBURGH - a thriving and diverse membership, and I'm sure we have at Room 3/6 Summerhall Arts Centre, least another 90 years in us. Edinburgh EH9 1PL Yours aye, Hours: Tuesday 2-7 pm Jackie Westerman Other visits by appointment [email protected] CONTACT DETAILS: [email protected] Librarians: Poster Competition Douglas Currie (07879 877732), Closing date for entries 1st January 2017. Susan Wales (07799 408608) and Alison McCallum (07772 945612). Postal service in operation at all times. Dunmore Trophy will be presented at Scottish INVERNESS - Final Festival in Pitlochry. Inverness Public Library, Darraline Park, Inverness IV1 1NH. Tel 01463 236463. Any posters from an SCDA clubs production in Hours: Mon & Fri 9am - 7.30pm. 2016 that has the SCDA logo or state they are Tues & Thurs 9am - 6:30pm. members of SCDA is eligible. Electronic PDF file Wed & Sat 9am - 5pm. preferred. Librarians: Miss C Goodfellow & Miss E Burridge 3 CORDINER PRESS: one-act plays and pantomimes by Isabella C. Rae – comedy, drama, fantasy! For catalogue, CLASS ADS see www.cordinerpress.co.uk or contact 36 Mansefield Avenue, Cambuslang, Glasgow G72 8NZ; (The small ads page) Phone 0141 641 1465 Playwright?; small business?; buying or selling?; All NANCY MCPHERSON PLAYS: For a selection of kinds of small ads accepted. Have your ad read pantomimes and award winning One-Act plays including throughout SCDA land. Contact [email protected] ‘Fusion’ (Scott Salver winner 2012) and ‘Waste Send your details to Scene Magazine's classified page. Management’ (Geoffrey Whitworth runner-up 2011) £15 - up to 30 words visit www.nancymcphersonplays.co.uk PLAYS BY RON NICOL: 52 published one act dramas, comedies, youth plays, full-length plays and pantomimes. 300 productions world-wide. Over 120 festival awards. Details at www.ron-nicol.com MORAE SERVICES: Bookkeeping and Payroll services for small to medium sized businesses, agent for HMRC for PAYE & VAT. Independent Examiner for Charity Accounts. Tel: 01738 446120 or email [email protected] 4 Welcome.... to Sue McPhee from Inverclyde, Lee Dunn from Moray Firth, Christine Hammond from Highland and Scott Fingland from Stewarty; to Aberfeldy Drama Club youth section and to Banchory Amateur Dramatic Company; also to new patrons Tom Fuge, Peter & Susan Baird, Liz Balding, and Charlie Balding Thank you.... first of all to the members of the Executive and National Committee for continuing to donate expenses; and also to A McNaughtan, Keith Robinson, A Hendry, R Stewart-Meiklejohn, Plockton ADS, A Ross and B Mackenzie for their kind donations. Tony Flisch National Vice-Chairman [email protected] The Seven Ages of Man Amateur actors don’t often get of both Lear and his daughter the chance to play Hamlet or Cordelia comes, sad to say, to Juliet. But then along comes a another untimely end. multi-centenary of our greatest We finished ‘this strange, national dramatist – arguably eventful history’ not quite with the world’s greatest – and The ‘childishness and mere Edinburgh Makars felt we had oblivion’ but with magic. Puck to rise to the occasion. So in led us a merry dance, and the week of the 400th assured the audience that anniversary of Shakespeare’s If we shadows have offended, death we put on a Think but this, and all is performance of The Seven mended, Ages of Man, a rehearsed set of readings from That you have but slumbered Shakespeare’s plays devised here and compiled by Rachel Moon. for more bodies to take their place: While these visions did appear. ‘All the world’s a stage,’ we were we had not one, but two lovers, and Visions, verse and music: between reminded by the company of 14 as they you will know that Romeo and Juliet each scene we heard one of the arrived on stage, ‘And one man in his both end up dead as well. more famous sonnets, with gentle time plays many parts, his acts being Henry V, the ‘soldier full of strange guitar accompaniment. And the seven ages.’ Then the narrator called oaths,’ urged his army into the breach audience was far from offended: they the company to order: ‘Now, we’ll have and inspired them with ‘a little touch were enthusiastic about the evening, a speech straight. And speak the of Harry in the night’ before St with its selection of words, scenes speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it Crispian’s Day. He was followed, and characters from The Bard, some to you, trippingly on the tongue.’ appropriately, by a justice, but it has well-known and some a little more And then we were off, with ‘the infant, to be said that our justice did not have unfamiliar. The company was mewling and puking in the nurse’s a ‘fair round belly with good capon enthusiastic too: each of us got to arms’ in scenes from A Winter’s Tale, lined,’ because our justice was Portia. ‘play many parts,’ including some of with Antigonus duly pursued by a Portia, you will remember, disguises the most rewarding lines we shall bear. The schoolboy followed, herself as a lawyer to plead Antonio’s ever have the chance to present. represented by the student Hamlet. case against Shylock, reminding us And let us hope that Shakespeare And while we called it ‘readings,’ our that ‘The quality of mercy is not would be pleased as well, that his Hamlet – given the most famous strain’d … And earthly power doth work lives on, among all of us who speech in the world – was one of then show likest God’s when mercy marvel at his artistry. several who spoke the speech seasons justice.’ Yet there was not Mike Appleby trippingly on the night, rather than much mercy apparent in our next The Edinburgh Makars reading. This section ended, of scene either, as the closest we could course, with the stage littered with get to a ‘lean and slippered bodies. They were cleared just in time pantaloon’ was Lear – and the oratory 5 Playwriting News to show they can develop a plot, Runner-Up Geoffrey Whitworth create believable characters and write ‘Such a Parcel original dialogue but should also of Rogues’ by Competition 2016 provide information about how their Isabella Rae of The results of this annual playwriting play should be performed. Cambuslang. competition which is administered by Some playwrights think it’s Winner of the Scott Salver SCDA on behalf of our sister UK unnecessary to provide stage directions Competition 2016 this piece organisations – Drama Association of or setting details on the grounds that it’s comprising two plays in one provides Wales, Association of Ulster Drama the director’s job to decide how the contrasting roles for different age Festivals and the All England Theatre work should be staged but a stage play groups as the action alternates Festival – were announced at the end cannot be constructed as if for between the 18th and 21st century of May with all of the submitted scripts television viewers where scenes families.
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