Tuesday 29th October

NO KYSPA tonight (in case you forgot) due to the school holidays. Adverts have been placed in the local press for Snow White auditions to be held over the first two weeks of the next half term.

We need to get stuck right in with serious rehearsals straight away. Christmas is-a-coming!

Plans for a show move ahead

Since we were unable to perform The Motormalgamation at the Penryn Town Fair, we have decided to incorporate it into a show for young families. In addition to The Motormalgamation, we will perform a version of The Lay of Thrym and a couple of other short drama and dance pieces.

We've started on the props for Motormalgamation and it seems that we can add painting to the artistic talents of our members!

For The Lay of Thrym, Thor's magic hammer needed creating & Sam volunteered for the job!

We're beyond just prop making though! The three MM narrators and "Carl" read through the script together in a first rehearsal.

This week, the first cast members for The Lay of Thrym read through an initial draft of the script. This will be reworked (the original dates from 1991 when I was still studying "A" Levels) and lengthened for next week.

From the left, "Loki", "Thor" and "Freja" with "Thrym" and his servant.

Unfortunately for Thrym, Freja is not the least bit interested in marriage!

The Motormalgamation

Our performance for the Penryn Town Fair on the 25th August will be Michael Bond's The Motormalgamation. We will be working on this performance at KYSPA over the next few weeks.

If you want to be involved in this project YOU MUST be available for afternoon rehearsals 20th - 24th AND on the 25th August. If you cannot commit to this timetable, please do not get involved - Iwould like this performance to go smoothly without worrying about attendance.

This performance is open to non-members, friends etc aged 7 upwards.

Film Premiere Pictures

As promised, here is a selection of pictures from the KYSPA Film Premiere. As you can see, everyone had a fantastic time in the Limo!

In addition to the films, there were a couple of excellent performances including "Jump" by Girls Aloud.

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Making Waves at the Premiere

Well done everyone for Tuesday night! What a great celebration of our First Birthday! For those who missed it, the KYSPA First Birthday Bash comprised of a Limousine ride (pics to be posted shortly), a party and then a showing of some of our films. Mixed in with the films were performances by Tia and Katie, a dance piece and a solo performance of "On my own" by Jodie. Oh, and I put in an appearance too but we won't dwell on that!

The highlight & finale of the evening was the showing of the YoMo DVD from our residential at Lindridge House. This was a genuine premiere as no-one (not even me) had seen it before. I think we're all pretty pleased with the film - thanks to steve et al for all their hard work!

The YoMo DVD contained a good selection of pics, a few of which I have included below.

Action Plan in progress!

Strange goings on!

The infamous "KYSPA" shot!

First Birthday Party

Film Premiere – the final arrangements!

Due to availability issues we MUST undertake dress/tech rehearsals on Tuesday (better late than never). Therefore, please come to the Youth Space at 4.30pm on Tues.

Please bring a contribution of party food or drink.

We will rehearse the dances, practice the intro speeches and check the equipment is working.

The upstairs room will be available for changing & getting “made up” for the party/Limo ride between 6pm and 7pm

We NEED the £5 Limo contribution on Tuesday ; KYSPA’s finances are too hard-pressed to afford non-payment for this activity though we can consider instalments for families with more than one member.

DO NOT leave the event without helping to tidy up! I don’t want to be tidying into the small hours of the morning!

There will be a short piece about KYSPA on Radio Cornwall on Tuesday at 3.45pm.

Films, Dance and Limousines!

A busy session for our members this week as we completed planning for two short films to be shot over the next couple of weeks (using our new camera!). That done, we have begun to think about an evening premiere where we can show all of our films to the public.

This will combine with some live entertainment (dance and song) from our members and possibly some interactive fun for the audience too! To celebrate the films, and KYSPA's first anniversary, our plan is to hold a "Gala Premiere Evening" with members arriving by Limousine to an event which boasts glamour and style and includes food and drink for both members and guests.

Rehearsals have started on one of the dance routines as you can see below. We will keep you posted as our plans become more concrete; there's still a lot to do!

The Trial of Miss Gunn & Mr Factory

On the evening of the 26th March, KYSPA staged a piece of improvised courtroom drama at Penryn Town Hall. The criminal case centered around former war hero Miss Cordelia Gunn VC, a war hero from a fictional "five year war". During the war, Miss Gunn performed outstanding acts of leadership and bravery. After the war, however, she was honourably discharged from the commandos still being owed quite a bit of money. The loss of all her close family and friends, no money and post traumatic stress led her to a life of homelessness and alcohol dependence.

On the first anniversary of the war's end, despite having made advances with her alcoholism and mental health, Miss Gunn again turned to drink. She stole a car and crashed it at speed on the wrong side of the M5 hitting a minibus full of orphan children on their day out (no-one was seriously hurt).

By chance, the driver of that bus was Mr Factory. The industrial mogul whose factories had supplied the armed forces with all their needs during the war - making him a multi billionaire in the process. What the public had never been told, until now, was that Mr Factory's products were of scandalously poor quality and faulty guns and equipment resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of our forces.

Miss Gunn secured the services of a leading MOD lawyer for the case. Rather than pleaing guilty to the charge of "Driving in a manner likely to endanger life" Miss Gunn enters an "Not Guilty" plea. Her defence is that her post traumatic stress was to blame for her actions and that the cause of her illness is none other than Mr Factory himself whose charitable works with orphan children since the war's end cannot absolve him of blame for his actions during the war.

The performance was organised into two "teams" essentially defence (Miss Gunn, Lawyer & witnesses) and prosecution (Mr Factory, Lawyer & Witnesses). Each team prepared questions and statements but didn't meet until the night of the trial. Neither side knew for sure what line of questioning the other side would take. They had just three weeks (approx four hours in total) to prepare for the performance.

To add spice to the occasion, we invited a guest jury with no prior knowledge of the case to listen to arguments and present a verdict at the close of the evening.

The KYSPA actors put on an excellent performance with plenty of atmosphere. When the Jury retired the audience were kept in suspense as they seemed to have trouble reaching a verdict. Eventually, howwever, they filed in and, one at a time, announced unanimously that they felt Miss Gunn was GUILTY. Many jurors took the unusual step of appealing directly to the Judge for a lenient sentence on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

The sense of victory for the prosecution team was short-lived. The Judge passed a setence of 150 hours community service and directed the police to investigate Mr Factory for corporate negligence/manslaughter! So, despite failing to prevent a guilty verdict, the defence team succeeded in putting right an injustice whilst the prosecution successfully prevented the defence from moving all of the blame away from Miss Gunn.

Pictures Blelow: Miss Gunn & her lawyer, The Defence team on the night, Mr Factory & his lawyer & the prosecution team on the night.