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The uncut X-Beacon files August 1998 (original)
President Clinton cut by melodramatic news of PaDS AGM!Readers who ploughed their way through to the end of last month’s column will have noticed a really quite unnecessarily barbed addendum from The Most Organised One. What had miffed The MOO was that I had (quite inadvertently) omitted to mention the date of the forthcoming PaDS AGM (which, by the way, is 21st September at 7.30pm, Christ Church Hall) ‘despite her telling me about it a thousand times’. Since then, as you might imagine, I’ve not heard end of it. You know the sort of thing ... ‘Absolutely typical! You’re totally unreliable. You never listen to a word I say. Why did I ever marry you? Answer me that, if you can!’ ‘..er, well I…’ ‘Don’t interrupt me! Oh, if only I’d listened to my mother…’ ‘Why? What did she say?’ ‘I don’t know. I wasn’t listening!’ And so on.. Anyway, the upshot is that this month’s column is being closely scrutinised and edited by The MOO (stop calling me The MOO!) as we go along. And I’m under strict instructions to stick to the point, get all the facts straight …( and no jokes!). And no jokes. Except, perhaps, for the one about President Clinton, a cross-dressing Tomcat called Eric and that dress with that stain. (You’re not telling that story!) OK, OK… Pity: it was quite clean really… cleaner than the dress, anyway. Back to the news. First, on Tuesday, 15 September at 7.30 p.m. at Christ Church Hall there will be the first auditions for our Christmas production of … well, we’re not yet quite sure really. Better come along and find out. Dracula seems to have fluttered off into the outer darkness to be replaced by a seething broth of rumours ranging from Murder on the Orient Express to Puss in Boots. Which brings me back to the joke about President Clinton and the …(I’m warning you!) OK, OK. Just testing. All that can be said for certain about the Christmas production is that it will festive, fantastic and at the Institute on the nights of the 27th and 28th November. With the auditions scarcely finished, we scamper breathlessly to the long awaited, much heralded PaDS AGM, which is..(you’ve already told them that it’s at 7.30pm on 21st September at Christ Church Hall. Get on with telling them that the Victorian Day Melodramas are going to be repeated at the Institute at 7.30 p.m. 25th and 26th September). There will be barely time to recover from the excitement of the AGM (at 7.30pm on 21st September at Christ Church Hall) before plunging into an auditorially absquatulating Evening of Victorian Melodrama at the Institute at 7.30 p.m. on 25th and 26th September. This is a repeat of the Victorian Market Day al fresco triumph, with the addition of an unmissable musical interlude by the recently disinterred Painswick and District Temperance Union Choral Quartet. And this time we guarantee that any damp seats will not be the result of the weather! Tickets from the Post Office and The Shetland Shop. Finally, just to prove what a fun bunch we PaDSters are, there will be a PaDS Halloween Party on 31st October. But it’s just members. And how do you get to be a member? Come to the AGM! When’s that? 7.30pm on 21st September! Where? Christ Church Hall! See you there. With a bit of luck The MOO will be otherwise engaged and I can tell you the joke about President Clinton and the…(I’m still watching you!) Jack Burgess Excruciatingly-Close-To-Being-The-Painswick-Dramatic-Society Addendum Of course, he had to miss something out! We would like to consider changing the name of PaDS. If you have any suggestions or views on this, please bring them with you to the PaDS AGM in Christ Church Hall at 7.30 p.m. on Monday, 21 September. Honestly, he really is a waste of space ... Jean Burgess Acting Secretary, PaDS |
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