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The uncut X-Beacon files July 1998
PaDS AGM announced! More dastardly deeds? Blood-bath rumoured!What a month! I can scarcely control my excitement! Not only am I able to report on the superbly successful (and soon to be repeated) Victorian Market Day Melodramas, but also The Most Organised One has just told me the date for the long awaited, oft postponed, much rumoured PaDS AGM. This is a date which (thus spake The MOO) I must not forget to pass on to all present or potential PaDSters where ere ye may be. And if all that were not enough, rumours are even now circulating that there could be a production of Dracula in December! Yes, Painswick could well be subjected to a Gothic drama of epic proportions in which the blood will flow as freely as rather diluted ketchup from a well shaken HP bottle with a very loose cap. And that's just the AGM! The date of the AGM, by the way, is... but I'm getting ahead of myself. First, the Victorian Market Day, when PaDS presented two Melodramas in front of a large and enthusiastic audience in the courtyard of The Falcon. Seldom have such villainous villains been so well hissed! (At this point, a lesser writer might well be tempted into a quip of doubtful taste concerning actors and alcohol. I shall, of course, resist this temptation.) Seldom have such heroic heroes been so raucously cheered or such virtuous heroines drawn out such heart-felt sympathy. Never has an angelic child been so angelic, or such poor old feeble widows been so... well, poor, old and feeble. Very soon, there wasn't a dry eye anywhere. In fact, by the end of the first play, there wasn't a dry anything anywhere, as the heavens opened. But was our plucky band of players down-hearted? Of course not! Fifteen frantic minutes later, the truly heroic backstage team had transplanted the set (and the truly heroic audience) into the adjacent Ostlers' Bar and even rigged up stage lighting. So the show went heroically on. Ever suckers for punishment, our intention is to repeat the two plays for those who might have missed them (or who couldn't believe what they had just seen the first time round) sometime in September, at a venue yet to be settled. Watch this space. Also in September (on a date which I will come to in a moment) we shall be presenting... The PaDS AGM. Regular readers of this column - if such there be - may recall that when PaDS last tried to have an Annual General Meeting, it ran into a couple of minor difficulties in that, (a) it wasn't annual and (b) it was something less than general. This time the acting non-Committee (including The MOO) is certain that (in the immortal words of the captain of the Titanic) it will all be plain sailing... Apart from all the usual AGM- type activities to get legitimate, the real meat of the evening will be to draw up a programme for the coming year and (hopefully) select a play for a December performance at the Institute. With an ever increasing and enthusiastic membership, we are confident that we can put on something to be proud of. Already, several interesting possibilities are being discussed informally, including the possibly controversial suggestion of Dracula, mentioned earlier.. What do you think? Make your views known! Be part of PaDS! Come to the AGM! Jack Burgess Hopefully-Soon-To-Be-Genuinely-The-Painswick-Dramatic-Society Addendum The PaDS AGM will be held in the Library Rooms at 7.30 pm on Monday, 21 September, 1998. I knew he'd forget! The one thing I ask him to do! If you want something doing... Jean Burgess Acting Secretary, PaDS |
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