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STEWARTON DRAMA GROUP
OPEN EVENING
Wednesday 12th August 2015 from 7.30pm
Stewarton Drama Group will open their 43rd season on Wednesday
12th August 2015 with an Open Evening aimed at recruiting potential
new members and new patrons. The club is always keen to meet people
in the local area who are interested in any aspect of drama or theatre arts
and the Open Evening will be a perfect opportunity for people to come
along and find out more.
The Group meet on Wednesday and Thursday evenings in their own
Premises, complete with a fully functional stage, rehearsal room, costume
store, kitchen and lounge, in the Scout Building, Corsehillbank Street,
beside the Tennis Courts in Stewarton.
The Group’s trophy cabinet now boasts 3 new pieces of silverware thanks
to the success in the annual drama festival of their one-act play version of
‘Bouncers’, which won the 2015 Ayrshire Round of the SCDA One-Act
Play Festival, and also picked up awards for Best Acting and Best Stage
Lighting.
If all of that encourages you to find out more about getting involved
next season, the Group are inviting anyone, over the age of 18, interested
in local theatre to drop into their Premises in the town’s Corsehillbank
Street on Wednesday 12th August from 7.30pm. This will be a great
chance to come along, see round the Premises, have a chat with existing
members, and find out more about the Group’s planned productions for
the new drama season 2015-16.
Alternatively, for only £30 a year you can become a Patron of the awardwinning Group and receive two tickets for each of their three annual
shows in the Stewarton Area Centre as well as a complimentary copy
of the Group’s monthly newsletter ‘Cuelines’ and invitations to any inhouse ‘Patrons Evenings’ that the group perform.
Drama Group President, Morag Smith said:
“We’d love to meet you if you are interested in any aspect of
drama - whether you fancy treading the boards, helping out
backstage, building scenery, working on lights and sound,
making props or costumes, singing and dancing in our
pantomime chorus, or simply supporting the Group by becoming
a Patron - please come along and meet us on Wednesday 12th
August in our Premises.
If you’d like more information please email us at
[email protected], log onto our website
www.stewarton-drama-group.co.uk or follow us on Facebook
at www.facebook.com/stewartondramagroup by clicking the
‘LIKE’ button at the top of the page.”
Full Steam(ie) Ahead As
Award-Winning Ayrshire
Theatre Company
Prepare To Stage
Scottish Comedy Classic
Stewarton Drama Group are all set to bring their production of
Scotland’s best loved comedy classic, ‘The Steamie’ to Stewarton on
Thursday 28th, Friday 29th and Saturday 30th May 2015. And the
news that the award-winning theatre group were staging the hit show
in the Stewarton Area Centre sparked such a rush for advance ticket
orders across Ayrshire, that two out of the three performances of the
play sold out within a few weeks of tickets going on sale. At the time
of going to print there are still a limited number of seats available for
the opening performance on Thursday 28th May.
The Steamie, written by Tony Roper, first premiered in a successful
Scottish theatre tour by Wildcat Stage Productions in 1987 starring
Elaine C. Smith, and Dorothy Paul, and was later made into a film
for Scottish Television starring Eileen McCallum, Katy Murphy and
Peter Mullan.
The play is set on Hogmanay 1953, and the women are gathered for
the last wash of the year, sharing their secrets from the old year and
their hopes for the new one.
As the washing is done, Dolly, Magrit, Doreen and Mrs Culfeathers
sing, laugh and cry their way through the last working day of that year,
with a little help from the increasingly drunk and not-so-handy washhouse mechanic Andy, played by Craig McLaughlan.
Director of ‘The Steamie’, Nancy McPherson said:
“Full of gallus patter in the Glesca washhouse, this warm,
affectionate and often wildly funny play has become a firm
favourite with Scottish audiences. It can have them rolling in
the aisles with laughter one moment and wiping away a tear
the next. And of course the famous Galloway’s mince scene is
guaranteed to bring the house down. We hope our audience
will be in for a real treat!”
All remaining tickets for ‘The Steamie’ on Thursday 28th
May are priced at a flat rate of £8.00 each and are on sale at
Stewarton Library. Alternatively, seats can be reserved by emailing
[email protected]
A licensed bar of wine will be on sale throughout the evening.