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The uncut X-Beacon files March 2000
Spring Is In The Air Before Inspector Calls! Queen
Victoria To Visit Painswick?
‘Spring is in the air!’ cries The Most Organised One with surprising
passion, interrupting my concentration as I compose this article. For a
fleeting moment, something stirs within me. ‘Spring, my beloved? You mean Spring as in spring chicks, gambolling
lambs and young men’s fancies?’ ‘I mean spring as in the spring that’s just sprung off the new DIY
garage door closer gadget that you’re supposed to have spent all last week-end
DIYing.’ she continues. ‘The garage door has just DIYed itself closed and
nearly guillotined the car with me in it. You really are hopeless: why do you
never read the instructions?’ ‘Because, darling angel, they’re always in Serbo-Croat or Korean. And
anyway half the fittings were missing…’ The MOO storms off to ‘do the job
herself’, which, of course, she does in less than five minutes. Spring is in the air!, by a strange
coincidence, also happens to be the title of the next sparkling PaDS event on Saturday,
1st April at the Painswick Centre. Starting at 3.00 pm, the
afternoon will burst with humour and passion, poetry and prose, all sprinkled
with a little April foolery. Designed for all those that are spring chickens at
heart, it will all be rounded off with a sumptuously scrumptious cream tea,
complete with homemade scones! Can’t you just feel the sap rising? Admission
will be by programme, available from 18th March from Pauline Foreman
(phone 813379) or Jean Burgess (812167). Meanwhile, rehearsals are now well underway for the May production of J
B Priestley’s classic, An Inspector Calls.
Director Gill Cox tells me that the play is a ‘set book’ on school syllabuses
and consequently PaDS is offering a workshop to any schools interested. Don’t
kids today just have all the luck? For the rest of us, there will be four
performances at the Painswick Centre on 18th 19th
and 20th May, including a
matinee on the Saturday. Tickets will cost a mere £5.00 for Thursday evening
and Saturday matinee performances and £6.00 for Friday and Saturday evenings.
You can even get £4.00 tickets if you snuggle together in parties of ten or
more. Start snuggling now! Incidentally, something the Inspector might like to investigate when he
calls is the Mystery of the Missing Pine Table and Blanket Box. These two fine
items of furniture, stars of the last PaDS production, mysteriously went
missing from the Centre stage sometime between 5th December and New
Year. Anyone able to help with enquiries should contact Kevin Parker on 814483. Peering dimly further into the future, PaDS has started planning for
Victorian Market Day. Even now, our Head of Protocol is in very high level
negotiations to secure a gracious visit from Her Majesty Queen Victoria! It is
hoped that Her Majesty will be amused by the successor to last year’s Great
Automatic Joke Machine, namely a ‘What The Butler Saw Machine’, which PaDS
technical engineers are in the process of restoring to its original Victorian
splendour. What a packed PaDS programme! Can you resist joining us? Jack Burgess, Painswick Dramatic Society |
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