Committee meeting

Last night I was officially voted in as the Chairman of the Academy Players. I know that sounds impressive, but in truth, no one else wanted the job!

The Academy Players is the theatre club associated with the Defence Academy of the UK based in Watchfield and Shrivenham, Oxfordshire. It has an amazing theatre, with a huge stage, full runs, an auditorium that doesn’t leave your bum numb and even it’s own bar and rehearsal room.

I laid out my stall at the committee meeting, stating that I wanted to break away from the 2 productions routine that has been running for a number of years (Pantomime in January and play in May). I also showed how I wanted to train people in theatre, from directing, acting, lighting, sound etc.

All in all, it went very well. But it leaves me with a lot to do; starting with developing the rehearsal plan for the Pantomime (and I’m directing Cinderella). Looking at the diary, it looks like I’ll be putting the pantomime on 24-26 Jan 08. While that sounds like a long way off, that doesn’t leave me with a lot of time once you take Summer and Christmas leave into account (as I won’t be able to put the auditions call out until the second week of September).

Now all I have to do is convince the club to read a few of my plays so that we can put one on in the Spring (but as I have mentioned before, this club has produced Prime Directive and Mark of a Gentleman – so Denim would complete the set!).

So, onwards, upwards, bigger, better, more!