JOINT ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL IN CONJUNCTION WITH MOULTON DRAMA GROUP
This week at
Davenham and next week at Moulton we present a joint One-Act Play Festival with
our friends at Moulton Drama Group. Tickets are still available so come along
and help us raise funds for our theatre improvements. See below for booking
information.
Moulton's
contribution is Calling Time - a Comedy by Derek Webb, a One Act play
with four separate sections, with bookends, all depicting meetings in a pub. The
titles of Moulton's four sections are:-
·
Goodbye Simon - directed by Sheila Hetherington
·
What’s Yours? - directed by Annie Makepeace
·
Mr Critchley, isn’t it?- directed by
Sheila Hetherington
·
Who’s Joe? - directed by Annie Makepeace
Davenham's
contributions are four individual pieces all directed by Paulette Anderson, the
first two of which are monologues:-
·
Saying it with Flowers by Christine Furnivall
·
Manny's Party by Geoff Saunders
·
plus
a two-hander Lost by Tony Moore and lastly...
·
a
short play for five people What's for Pudding? by David Tristram
Tickets cost
£8.00 at either venue and all eight plays will be presented at both theatres at
7:30pm on the following evenings. If you can't make this week at Davenham, you have
a second chance at Moulton next week.
Thursday 16th
July - Saturday 18th July at Davenham Theatre
Thursday 23rd
July - Saturday 25th July at Moulton Village Hall
AUDITION – QUARTET BY RONALD HARWOOD
Barbara
Crellin has so far been unable to complete her casting for Ronald Harwood's play
Quartet following last
Thursday's audition. If you look
as though you ought to be retired or know someone that is, please get in touch
or else we might miss the chance to see this well-known play on which the
2012/13 film was based. Barbara intends to present Quartet this coming Autumn and you can contact her on 01606 41461.
A further audition will be held if possible actors can be found.
Quartet is a comedy
play about aging opera singers set in a retirement home for musicians. Three
elderly former opera singers, Reginald, Cissy and Wilfred, who often worked
together, are sitting on the terrace. They are about to be joined by newcomer
Jean, a major star in her day and to whom Reginald was unhappily married. A
gala concert is shortly to take place at the retirement home to celebrate the birthday
of renowned Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi. Three of the four are
keen to recreate the third act quartet from Rigoletto and one isn't !
Reginald - quiet, serious
Wilfred - jovial, talks about sex a lot
Cissy - Sweet, slightly daffy
Jean - rather a diva - has been a great
soprano.
PROSTATE CANCER TESTING AT BYLEY
VILLAGE HALL SATURDAY 18TH JULY 10:00-13:00
I have good reason to be
grateful to my wife and also to Leighton Hospital Prostate Cancer Support and
Awareness Group, for helping me find out that I had cancer of the Prostate and
– importantly – in time for the disease to be treated with an excellent chance
of a cure.
This was back in 2013 in
my 65th year. About 18 months previously I had visited my doctor
because, like many men, I had heard about the increased incidence of prostate
cancer in men of retirement age and I wanted to ask whether I ought to be
having some sort of routine test just in case I was one of the unlucky men.
After a chat about my symptoms, which were not really any different to those
expected by men of that age, I was persuaded not to bother having a *PSA test
because the doctor told me that he knew two men who had been treated, possibly
unnecessarily, for Prostate cancer; one had become impotent and the other
incontinent.
Although I was content to
leave things as they were for the time being, Shirley had remained concerned
that I had not taken things further. Then, in 2013, she noticed that a local
charity were offering PSA Testing in Northwich and persuaded me to book an
appointment. A blood sample was taken
and analysis indicated that I was in a high risk group and was strongly
recommended to visit my doctor and insist on further diagnostic assessment.
This I did and a further
PSA test confirmed the first and I was referred to Leighton Hospital. Further
examinations and diagnostics took place and I was treated, "with curative
intent"; i.e. there is a very good chance of permanently arresting the
progress of my Prostate cancer. Fortunately, there were no signs that the
cancer had spread outside the Prostate. If I had not gone to get the PSA test at the time I did, I might not
be in this fortunate position.
I can thoroughly recommend
all men say over 45 to have a PSA test, either from their own Doctor or at Byley Village Hall this Saturday between 10am and 1pm. No appointment needed – the Group just ask for a £10
donation to partially cover their costs. If anyone has any questions about the
testing or about Prostate cancer in general, they would be most welcome to call
me on 01606 45186 or 07891 146 567 so long as I am not on stage in the one-act
plays.
*
NOTE: PSA stands for Prostate Specific
Antigen, a substance that is generally found in the blood in higher quantities
than normal in men suffering from Prostate cancer. There are, however, known problems with the
PSA test in that men with a high PSA result do not always have cancer and
conversely that men with a low PSA result may yet have the cancer. For this
reason, the Leighton Hospital Prostate Support Group, who carry out an
extensive programme of PSA testing, also commission a second test on the blood
sample called 'Free to Total'. The PSA level combined with the Free to Total
figure give a much better indication of whether a man has the cancer.
CHESHIRE THEATRE GUILD ANNUAL DRAMA FESTIVAL AWARDS EVENING
The Cheshire
Theatre Guild annual awards ceremony is at 7:45pm on Wednesday 15th July at the
Club Theatre Altrincham, followed by the Guild's AGM on Sunday 19th
July at 11am in the Harlequin Theatre, Northwich. Davenham's production of
"The Female of the Species" has been nominated for Best Set
Presentation. See http://www.cheshiretheatreguild.org/nominations for full details.
After much hard work by
Jan Johnson and some fantastic advice from Pam Beddard, a funding application
was submitted to ACE (Arts Council England) at the start of June and the excellent
news has just reached us that our application has been accepted ! We now have
to plan a launch of the project and put in place the correct procedures to
manage the ongoing work. Look out for more news on our website and Blog.
Jazz@davenham
is currently in summer recess until the first gig of the new season on Thursday
24th September 2015 when Amy Roberts will be playing. Meanwhile, any
enquiries should be directed to jazz@davenham.co or by phone to Harry on 01606
74502 or Dave on 01606 44253.
