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The uncut X-Beacon files January 1999
1999 starts with a capital loss for PaDS!Belated Season’s Greetings to one and all! And a particularly Seasonal Greeting to all those who greeted the Season by cramming themselves seasonally into the Institute to support our ‘Season’s Greetings’ December production. Modesty forbids that I comment further on how rapturously it was received. However, I am told that a totally independent, objective review can be found elsewhere in this esteemed publication… (Naomi, remember we’ve still got the negatives from the Horticultural Society’s Pollination Evening …) Suffice to say that the whole nerve-jangling, hair-tearing, fun-filled affair is just beginning to fade into a miscellany of (mostly) happy memories, a bit like the collateral damage from Christmas itself: scattered nuts and raisins, broken wine glasses, screwed-up funny hats and crackers, disintegrated mince pies and left over relatives, all of which are (as I write) being ferociously hoovered up from every nook and granny by The Most Organised One. Enough of this maudlin reverie. What does 1999 hold in store? Gazing into the genuine plastic Mystic Meg crystal ball that my daughter bought me for Christmas, I can confidently predict a major Spring production in the Institute on May14th and 15th. And we are delighted that this will mark a most welcome return to PaDS of Hain Ryan, as director. Predicting exactly what the play is likely to be is a tad more tricky, but through the mists I see a great drama unfolding… Could it be something by Henry James? To find out for sure, come along to the Institute (Green Room) at 7-30 pm on Tuesday, January 12th or 18th for a read- through and/or auditions. We are also planning a very informal, St Valentines surprise evening, when we will duly massacre some well loved pieces of poetry and prose with amorous undertones. What’s the surprise? Well, the date for a start: it’s on Saturday, 13th February. Intrigued? See next month’s Beacon. Finally, for those of you wondering what any of this has to do with the headline at the top of the page, I will explain. For the past 12 months PaDS has been considering a new name. The debate has raged loud and long and many were the suggestions:
Eventually, the Committee pondered and decided on… PaDS (but with the ‘a’ writ small). With such decisive leadership, PaDS… sorry PaDS cannot fail! Here’s to a happy and dramatic 99… Jack Burgess PaDS |
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