Romeo & Juliet Dance Routine

Did you wonder why I mentioned the Thriller dance in the last post? Here's why!



Melissa and the cast did an amazing job of Romeo and Juliet, and we had a great crowd in both nights. Hopefully Brook Field School enjoyed their private viewing yesterday too!

Next Show is... You Don't Need To Know That!
Tuesday 5th February, 7.30pm.

TheatreWorks!

I was just updating our 'what's on' items to the Theatreworks website and noticed that we're on the front page today! If you click our link it will take you to the trailer. It acts as a nice reminder to you all to get your tickets for Romeo and Juliet while you still can!

Do you remember what you were doing when you first saw Michael Jackson's Thriller video? People will be asking you the same thing about this performance! Too hot to miss!

This Wednesday and Thursday, 7.30pm, tickets are £4 adults, £3 students.

Back by Popular Demand...

Gonzo Moose presents You Don't Need To Know That!

An ordinary man who minds his own business awakes one morning to find a police inspector at the foot of his bed. Unaware of his crime, he is plunged into a shadowy world full of incompetent policemen, over zealou torturers, bemused judges, senile prison guards and lecherous inmates. You Don't Need To Know That... is the story of one man trying to prove his innocence in impossible circumstances. Will he triumph against petty bureaucracy, corrupt officials, treachery, danger and death?

Inspired by Kafka's The Trial, You Don't Need To Know That... is an exhilarating collision of comedy, drama, slapstick and puppetry. Gonzo Moose create a hilarious, ludicrous and disturbingly anarchic world where anything can happen and frequently does.

Tuesday 5th February
7.30pm
Tickets £6 adults, £5 students. Email me to reserve yours now!

Romeo & Juliet

Here it is! Please let me know what you think of it... bearing in mind it's my first animation! Don't forget to buy your tickets too... Wednesday 16th & Thursday 17th January, 7.30pm, the Bradon Forest Theatre. Tickets are £4 adults, £3 students!

Happy New Year!

Well, a slightly belated Happy New Year to you all! The end of term was a bit manic, as expected, but I thoroughly enjoyed all the Christmas jobs!

Firstly, you can see an end of term report at The Link Magazine here, which details all of the charity work that was done by our students. There are also more photos to be seen of the Christmas Music Concert and also the Busking session in West Swindon. The Link also have featured our year 11 student Laura Perrett who has won the National Poetry Day competition. Click here for the full story and also to read the winning poem!

Secondly, I'm currently finishing the editing of the Christmas Nativity DVD's that I have done for Lydiard Millicent School. I had the pleasure of filming Sheik, Rattle and Roll and also the Bethlehem Booty, both of which were possible the best nativity plays I've ever seen!

As soon as that's done, I'm itching to get stuck in to one of my Christmas presents, The Animators Survival Kit. Romeo and Juliet opens in two weeks and so the trailer is a matter of urgency!

National Student Drama Festival

As highlighted by Chris Wilkinson on the Guardian Unlimted Arts Blog entry, Why Student Theatre Matters, the Arts Council have proposed to cut the funding for the National Student Drama Festival. Click here to sign the petition.

Advice on Acting

As regular readers will know, I like to see what's going on in the Vancouver Film School (and sometimes dream of enrolling there). In very much the same vane of our Backstage feature they have a blog entry today that may be of interest to you.

Acting grad Holly Dignard plays Nicole Miller on the hit drama series Whistler. We caught up with Holly to ask for her words of wisdom to aspiring actors everywhere.

Dona Rosita... Ten Years Ago!

Because it's nearly Christmas, I thought I'd post this to make some of you laugh. It's a photo from the last time Mr Calder directed Dona Rosita... ten years ago now! You may recognise one of the Aola's....

Bradon's Got Talent

On Monday night the theatre was host to Bradon's Got Talent... a talent show organised by the Student Council. The show was a great success with a completely full house. We even had to turn away 40 plus students due to fire restrictions! Buy your tickets in advance!

Bradon certainly has Got Talent though with performances as varied as group dance routines, singing soloists, duos and trios, solo dance improvisation, beatboxing, a guitar and piano singing group and also a solo pianist who played her own composition! Elvis was even in the building! Click the photo for pictures from the night and video clips will follow shortly.

The student council raised a total of £186 for the Children's Hospice South West. Well done to all involved!

Last Night of Dona Rosita

It's Friday night and it's almost 10pm. I've just got in from seeing the last performance of Dona Rosita. Now, I'm not really allowed to give a review of the show as it would most likely be biased, or you'd all think it was biased because I work here! However, I will say that I have never been more impressed with a group of 14 - 16 year olds. I had to tell the cast that the scene where the lover leaves Rosita gave me goose pimples this evening, and I nearly welled up telling them that! There were actually members of the audience that left with tears in their eyes!

I overheard two of the cast members talking at the end of the show:

Alice: "I'm so sad it's all over! This is my last show at Bradon as well!"
Kat: "I'm not sad it's over, I'm proud we've done it."

Congratulations cast of Dona Rosita. You should be proud!