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| For Dunbar Civic Week |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| by William Shakespeare |
a 60 minute outdoor production performed by 30 Alba students aged 5-17 |
The Woods, Hallhill, Dunbar |
| ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY - 22 June 2006 |
2003-2004
The community wing of Theatre Alba produced three plays at the Loretto School, Musselburgh:
Live like Pigs by John Arden
Chamber Music by Arthur Kopit
The Pilgrimage by Paul Goetzee
Live Like Pigs
by John Arden
was Arden's first full-length play to be given a public production. About two families who represent two very different and incompatible ways of life: the Jacksons and the Sawneys, the play shows Arden's undoubted care for social issues.This was without doubt the most difficult of the plays undertaken by Alba's Leisure Group since its conception in the 1990's.
The cast
(in order of appearance):
HOUSING OFFICER - Naomi Cornwall
RACHAEL - Lynn Rogers
ROSIE - Elsie Horobin
SALLY, her daughter - Louise Allan
COL, Rachel's son - Roger Linton
SAILOR SAWNEY - Frank Skelly
MRS JACKSON - Fiona Harvie
DOREEN, her daughter - Jacqui Doran
MR JACKSON - David Ellis
BLACKMOUTH - Patrick Griffin
THE OLD CROAKER - Anna Nowosielska
DAFFODIL, her daughter - Michelle Doran
DOCTOR DEUCHARS - Naomi Cornwall
A POLICEMAN - Ian Stewart
CHAMBER MUSIC
by Arthur Kopit,
is a wonderful play and a tremendous exercise in ensemble playing. Set in a mental asylum, it was written in the 1960's when writing throughout the western world was at its most creative.
The cast
(in order of appearance):WOMAN WHO PLAYS RECORDS -Jacqui Doran
WOMAN IN SAFARI OUTFIT - Nikki Logan
WOMAN WITH THE NOTEBOOK - Jennifer Harvie
GIRL IN GOSSAMER DRESS - Eleanor Cairns
WOMAN IN AVIATRIX OUTFIT - Stephanie Wood
WOMAN IN QUEENLY SPANISH GARB - Louise Hoban
WOMAN IN ARMOUR - Anna Nowosielska
WOMAN WITH THE GAVEL - Sarah Hunter
MAN IN WHITE - Douglas White (Loretto School)
HIS ASSISTANT - Ed Moore (Loretto School)
THE PILGRIMAGE
by Paul Goetzee
This excellent short play is set in a fictitious country in a wild and rugged landscape that can only support sheep and goats. The time is the past and the present, but hopefully not the future.
The cast
(in order of appearance):
GRANDPA GRIMM - John Williams
MERMER , Clove's mother - Catriona Thompson
CLOVE, wifer of Gregor - Joanna Inglis
GREGOR, a shepherd - Keiran Smith
BRAG, a shepherd - Iain Thompson
BUTT, a shepherd - Lewis Williamson
LENA, wife of Butt - Jenny Inglis
CHAFF, daughter of Cloce and Gregor - Michelle Hadley
MENDEL, Chaff's twin, - Karen Hadley
JOSEF, a goatherd - Coll Williamso
SYLVIAN,
a man who lives in the trees - Sandy Smith
VIRGIN OF THE SHEPHERDS - Alex Valentine
VIRGIN Of THE GOATHERDS - Sarah Borthwick
Also All plays were Directed by Charles Nowosielski
Lighting by Alan Little
Stage management by Neil Barbour
Assistant by Andy Pate
Thanks to the hosts, Loretto School and especially to Simon Lowe, who shoed the utmost hospitality.
2003
Saturday April 19th 2003
"To the Cross" 
A promenade
performance play around Duddingston village, the churchyard and
gardens of Duddingston Kirk
A large cast
of over 100 people joined professional actors for a memorable pageant
to remember the real message of Easter.
More details
Community Plays - June 2001
In June the students performed
in several highly successful productions of THE FISHERMAN'S MOON
and PEASANTS.
THE FISHERMAN'S MOON written in 1997 for Theatre Alba Adult group by Eric Morgan and adapted for young people by Charles Nowosielski deals with the fight to save the way of life of an island which is being faced with destruction by a mining corporation.
PEASANTS
adapted by the writer, Charles Nowosielski,
from an early work (circa 1980) with the same title, is a politico/religious
drama written in a Brechtian style dealing with the fight of the
worker to achieve control over their affairs from the Landlords.
2001
A SWANSONG
The Netherbow Theatre, EDINBURGH
Adult Leisure Group
A SWANSONG - a compilation of extracts from plays by Chekhov, Shakespeare, JM Synge and others for some 20 adult performers. Based on the short vaudeville SWANSONG by Anton Chekhov, the play of one act of 1 hour and 30 minutes traces the history of a retiring actor through his life and loves.
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