Monday, 30 June 2008
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Countdown to Latitude
We're getting closer to Latitude
The webste is up and running, check it out at www.dirtyprotesttheatre.co.uk
Plus we are pretty much sorted on all of the plays, Tim is just finalising the last play with the writers who submitted entries. So thank you so much for all your plays.
We are taking press shots tomorrow with three of our fantastic actors, Lee Mengo, Aled Pugh and Mared Swain (the lovely Dirty Mared). If you are in Cardiff don't worry if you see a girl in a bikini and a man in a shell suit posing in the park. It's all for Dirty Protest
The webste is up and running, check it out at www.dirtyprotesttheatre.co.uk
Plus we are pretty much sorted on all of the plays, Tim is just finalising the last play with the writers who submitted entries. So thank you so much for all your plays.
We are taking press shots tomorrow with three of our fantastic actors, Lee Mengo, Aled Pugh and Mared Swain (the lovely Dirty Mared). If you are in Cardiff don't worry if you see a girl in a bikini and a man in a shell suit posing in the park. It's all for Dirty Protest
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Very lazy of us.....
Well, we've been a bit rubbish with blogging.
Since we last posted we have held two brilliant Dirty Protest nights.
We took over the Sherman - our first time in an official theatre space. We were invited as part of the Springboard new writing festival. It was the first time we performed fully staged plays and this is where our new stage manager Ellie Carter really became indispensable. She is obsessed with pegs, washing lines, fairy lights and camouflage. It the best DIY way to make a set. We also welcomed actress/writer/director Mared Swain fully into the Dirty Protest gang. She directed the very dark play from new writer Sam Bees. True/Fiction Theatre's Matthew Bulgo was behind the helm for Colette Kane's Carnival and our very own Dirty Catrin was in charge of setting Dirty Tim's first play for the company - The Whole Truth.
We're taking Tim's play to Latitude next month, with the second and third part written by two more Welsh writers (names tbc)
The night was packed out, we've been told we were the best selling event of the festival and everyone stayed to party afterwards in the foyer and then onto Buffalo. The bar had made special Dirty Protest cocktails for us - everyone was questioning what the Worthers' Orginal was doing in the bottom of the glass though.
Then on May 29 we took over Ten Feet Tall in Cardiff for Dirty Directors' Protest. Using a play commissioned by London group Drywrite we gave six Welsh directors complete freedom to stage Phil Porter's Repeat. The short plays from Adele Thomas, Mared Swain, Simon Harris, Julie Barclay, Kit Lambert and Gareth Bale couldn't have been any more different. One person fainted - we couldn't work out whether it was because of the heat or the fact that Julie Barclay's play had an interesting interpretation of "something disgusting". Either way, well done Julie.
The venue was packed, with people queuing down the street in the rain 30 minutes before.
But there is no rest for the wicked and we are all ignoring the sunshine and are working on our upcoming performances at Latitude, Wales Millennium Centre and also the Dirty Picnic - to celebrate our first birthday
Today we are making our first official website, which involved giving the brilliant Steve Salter some cups of tea and lunch while he ignores the sunshine and sits quite close to the computer playing with logos and leopard print.
Things we need to do before Latitude Festival
1. Get the plays all finalised. Two down one more to go
2. Pick our actors
3. Take press pictures - which will hopefully involve a wood and some very dirty actors. Watch this space and we will post them up.
4. Ellie has to make costumes, source props and make a kick-off banner. You won't be able to miss us when we hit Latitude
5. Hire a van and make some mix CDs
There's probably more to do. But that's enough for the moment.
Dirty Claire
Since we last posted we have held two brilliant Dirty Protest nights.
We took over the Sherman - our first time in an official theatre space. We were invited as part of the Springboard new writing festival. It was the first time we performed fully staged plays and this is where our new stage manager Ellie Carter really became indispensable. She is obsessed with pegs, washing lines, fairy lights and camouflage. It the best DIY way to make a set. We also welcomed actress/writer/director Mared Swain fully into the Dirty Protest gang. She directed the very dark play from new writer Sam Bees. True/Fiction Theatre's Matthew Bulgo was behind the helm for Colette Kane's Carnival and our very own Dirty Catrin was in charge of setting Dirty Tim's first play for the company - The Whole Truth.
We're taking Tim's play to Latitude next month, with the second and third part written by two more Welsh writers (names tbc)
The night was packed out, we've been told we were the best selling event of the festival and everyone stayed to party afterwards in the foyer and then onto Buffalo. The bar had made special Dirty Protest cocktails for us - everyone was questioning what the Worthers' Orginal was doing in the bottom of the glass though.
Then on May 29 we took over Ten Feet Tall in Cardiff for Dirty Directors' Protest. Using a play commissioned by London group Drywrite we gave six Welsh directors complete freedom to stage Phil Porter's Repeat. The short plays from Adele Thomas, Mared Swain, Simon Harris, Julie Barclay, Kit Lambert and Gareth Bale couldn't have been any more different. One person fainted - we couldn't work out whether it was because of the heat or the fact that Julie Barclay's play had an interesting interpretation of "something disgusting". Either way, well done Julie.
The venue was packed, with people queuing down the street in the rain 30 minutes before.
But there is no rest for the wicked and we are all ignoring the sunshine and are working on our upcoming performances at Latitude, Wales Millennium Centre and also the Dirty Picnic - to celebrate our first birthday
Today we are making our first official website, which involved giving the brilliant Steve Salter some cups of tea and lunch while he ignores the sunshine and sits quite close to the computer playing with logos and leopard print.
Things we need to do before Latitude Festival
1. Get the plays all finalised. Two down one more to go
2. Pick our actors
3. Take press pictures - which will hopefully involve a wood and some very dirty actors. Watch this space and we will post them up.
4. Ellie has to make costumes, source props and make a kick-off banner. You won't be able to miss us when we hit Latitude
5. Hire a van and make some mix CDs
There's probably more to do. But that's enough for the moment.
Dirty Claire
Sunday, 23 March 2008
The Countdown....
Next month we will be taking our theatre company out of the rather cosy confines of Milgi's Mongolian Yurt and heading into a grown up theatre.
We started this company less than a year ago as we couldn't find any great new/experimental writing in Wales that would appeal to our age group and blooming heck has it grown quickly. I think we thought the first performance was a bit of a coup - it was sold out, we turned people away, we had an award winning writer (Ed Thomas) premiere his first work for four years, another writer Kit Lambert got his play commissioned for a short film and our first time writer got a job out of it. But it's just got bigger and better since then....
Now we're heading out of our cwtchy confines of the Yurt and are going to be putting bums on proper seats at the Sherman Theatre in April. Not that we are getting all stuffy mind - there will be plenty of surprises. And then it is off to Latitude Festival with us to party and put on three plays in the woods.
It's a learning curve for all of us - a writer, a journo and a director - and we are collecting a merry band of experts and friends along the way. So as we learn we'll be blogging as we go. Hope it is interesting and fun.....
Dirty Claire
We started this company less than a year ago as we couldn't find any great new/experimental writing in Wales that would appeal to our age group and blooming heck has it grown quickly. I think we thought the first performance was a bit of a coup - it was sold out, we turned people away, we had an award winning writer (Ed Thomas) premiere his first work for four years, another writer Kit Lambert got his play commissioned for a short film and our first time writer got a job out of it. But it's just got bigger and better since then....
Now we're heading out of our cwtchy confines of the Yurt and are going to be putting bums on proper seats at the Sherman Theatre in April. Not that we are getting all stuffy mind - there will be plenty of surprises. And then it is off to Latitude Festival with us to party and put on three plays in the woods.
It's a learning curve for all of us - a writer, a journo and a director - and we are collecting a merry band of experts and friends along the way. So as we learn we'll be blogging as we go. Hope it is interesting and fun.....
Dirty Claire
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