Showing posts with label theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theatre. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Theatre Club Evening - 5th September

From 7pm on Friday 5th September, and at the same time every Friday in September, we shall be having a Theatre Club Evening at the Cowbridge Market Theatre.
Admission is free, and open to all. The bar will open at 7pm, and the evening's activities will start at 7.30pm.
Audience participation is encouraged but not enforced, and the theme of the first evening is communication. There will be some warm-up games and exercises, some short comedy sketches to enact or enjoy, and a little bit of improvisation.
The idea is to share our skills, thoughts, knowledge of all things theatrical, and get to know each other a bit more, in a relaxed environment.
Please come along - bring a friend or two - and have some fun.

Thursday, 17 July 2008

Theatrical Connections No. 175

Things you might not have known about Chris Bumstead, CADS family member since the turn of the century.

I once had tea, biscuits and a golden virginia roll-up with Sir Richard Briers.
Well, I was writing this book for the BBC - OK, I was "editing" this book for the BBC - "Hancock's finest Half-Hour" - and Richard had just had some critical acclaim for his role as Tony Hancock in a BBC Radio Three play, so it seemed like a good idea to ask him for an interview.
Just a cricket ball's throw away from Lord's cricket ground, we sat in their conservatory and discussed the technical splendours of the writings of Galton and Simpson.
Richard chain smoking golden virginia and the tape recorder whirring away, my nervousness ebbing away as his wife kept us supplied with copious amounts of tea and biscuits.
Later that day, I also had an interview with Robbie Coltrane, but that was under very different circumstances and is filed under Theatrical connections number 129.