Tuesday 20th November

Split rehearsals tonight please! Dress warmly!

6.30pm - 8.30pm Queenie, Snow, Mirror, Dyllan, Watt, Wen, Peasemold (Sam & Estelle too please)

7.30pm - 8.30pm OMF, 7 Children, Cinderella & Princesses

Any new people will have to read in/take standby parts and help manage props etc.

Hopefully I'll have got photocopies of the script by tonight. Queenie now has two henchpeople of her own (Sam & Estelle) called Craven & Ghoul! They're VERY nasty, evil witch type characters who put nasty ideas into Queenie's head!

I have beefed up the Princesses parts a bit too. See you all tonight

Successful Auditions

Thank you to everyone who auditioned successfully last night. I will do some script editing this week to increase the size of some of your parts in line with the very high standard of acting displayed by everyone.

From here on in, KYSPA sessions will be split into two rehearsal segments of an hour each. We will rehearse scenes in chunks (eg. 7 children scenes, Snow & Dyllan Scenes, Mirror and Queenie etc.)

I need to stress again that just because you are not actually on stage at a given point during the session does not mean that you can misbehave. If not acting you need to be quietly reading through lines or, better still, watching your fellow performers and offering feedback.

KYSPA is about aquiring skills and confidence. A key aspect of this is learning to sit back and watch other performers. See from the audience's perspective what works and what does not. It's not just about acting; you have the opportunity to develop your directing and feedback skills. These in turn help you improve your own performance.

Sitting and watching others is not boring and it is not a waste of time. For one thing, there is always something to learn from watching other people act. everyone's style is different, each character interpretation offers something new.

Secondly, you can contribute to making this show as professional as possible. Panto may be fun, but good comedy is the most demanding type of drama, requiring good timing and intuitive interaction between characters. If you can perform good comedy, you can perform just about anything. This can only be achieved if we work together and pick up on good things (to keep in our performances) and identify things to put right.

I need everyone to pull together now. We have a strong cast. Don't let yourselves down by missing a great opportunity! I want my group back on track, with a clear focus on establishing ourselves as credible performers.

PS. PLEASE do not meddle with the Imac's settings! Our incredibly expensive PC is not a toy, but an editing tool. Respect it or you'll be staying home on Tuesday nights.

Tuesday 6th November

KYSPA as usual this evening... except it's not as usual! We advertised for Snow White auditions so I'm expecting a few new faces tonight. Hopefully we'll be able to put the core cast together and start learning (or re-learning) lines.

I expect better behaviour from some of you this week please. Think about other people's feelings and respect them. Also, KYSPA is NOT the place for charging around & mucking about. Sorry, but you need a different youth group for that. We're moving towards establishing a good reputation for producing serious drama and films.... and children's entertainment.... and pantomime.

The point is, we need to get these shows done. If some of you remember your panto lines from last year I see no reason why we can't move towards performance immediately after Christmas.

See you all there. Rich.

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!

Tuesday 23rd October

Session as usual this week. Unfortunately the YoMo residential had to be cancelled. We'll visit the next conference they hold instead!

Please bring Motormalgamation scripts this evening. Rich.

Tuesday 16th October

Meeting as usual this week. Further work on CRASAC DVD, also plan for presentation for YoMo event IF this is able to go ahead. A decision on this will have to be made tomorrow.

Also, more fun and games, hopefully, as well as improvisation activities!

See you there!

Resumption of Meetings Tues 9th Oct

Hi all, thanks for your patience! KYSPA will be back in business this tuesday. we have the DvD from CRASAC and we will need to work on some ideas and scripts, either adapting the existing material or adding scenarios you think should be included. we will then be visited again next week to share our ideas with CRASAC.

As well as being quite poorly, this has been a difficult time for me. I hope, however, to get back into the swing of things now as there is a great deal for us to do! See you 'orrible lot on Tues!