The uncut X-Beacon files September 1999

Absurd Appeal For Kitchen Sink Drama Leads To Evil Evening At The Institute!

PaDS Committee To Be Blamed In Dramatic AGM Announcement?

Whilst the rest of you have been languidly sipping Chianti on sun-drenched terraces in Tuscany or dueling bravely, towels at dawn , with Teutonic hordes for the last sun lounger on the Med, we PaDS folk have been busily rehearsing for the greatest dramatic event in our thespian year. Eloquent soliloquies have been soliloquised to perfection. Dramatic pauses have been timed precisely. Grand gestures have been gestured to the very limits of grandiosity. Yes, it’s time once again for the PaDS Annual General Meeting. So, if you enjoy great theatre, gripping suspense and endless witty repartee, stay at home in front of the TV. Otherwise come and join us all on Tuesday, 21 September at 7.30 pm in the Institute Green Room for a dramatically enjoyable evening reviewing the past 12 months, planning for the next and blaming it all on the Committee.

If the above strikes you as being singularly absurd, here’s more in the same vein. (Editor’s note: Surprise, surprise…) The PaDS Christmas production, Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn (2^nd 3^rd 4^th December at the Institute) is now in rehearsal. As I outlined last month, this hilariously festive comedy takes place at pre-Christmas drinks parties in three different kitchens. So here’s a dramatically absurd appeal: if any of you are planning to do up your kitchens over the next couple of months and are discarding kitchen units, work tops, fridges, washing machines etc, why not donate them to PaDS and let us give them a few moments of theatrical fame? Give me a call on 812 167 and we’ll arrange to collect.

Keeping to the absurd theme, The Most Organised One has pedantically pointed out that it would be patently absurd for PaDS to hold a Halloween Evening on 30^th October (as reported last month), because it ain’t Halloween. So to pacify The MOO, our Halloween evening at the Institute will now be on Sunday, 31^st October, at 7.30 pm. Gill Cox, who is responsible for concocting this dramatically evil brew, is being darkly secretive about the actual ingredients. Rumours abound of ghastly readings, a mysterious one-act play and a bewitching buffet to keep your spirits up. More will be revealed next month…

Jack Burgess,

Painswick Dramatic Society

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