Hello there KDC!
I hope that, unlike myself, you are well, and have no tickles in the throat, or sniffles to irritate your colleagues and loved ones!
Another year done for one of the hardest working theatre companies in London! Who would have thought that just about 12 months ago we were thanking the directors of our 2011 Winter Season, and preparing for an exciting Spring!
It’s been a great year for us, with some amazingly popular shows and some exciting stuff in general! We’ve had 11 shows (one of which performed in a total of FOUR different venues!), one new season, and two new venues! From our Shakespearean Spring of Measure for Measure, The Tamer Tamed and War of the Waleses, all three Assistant Directors went on to direct for our Summer Season of one act plays. Richard Williams brought back the ever popular Devised Piece. Sarah Heenan took War of the Waleses to Camden, Ealing and STRATFORD UPON AVON. Duncan Moore helmed our very first Halloween play in Dracula! We had some adaptations of Dickens Ghost Stories which we WON’T have seen the last of! We’ve said goodbye to some of our great committee members, Anna Marx and Sandy Nicholson, and said hello to others, Aruna Buchanan, Kim Morrison and Dave Balfour. And our amazing year finished off with the fantastically funny and appropriately seasonal productions of The Lying Kind and The Priory!
So as it tradition, my thanks go out, not just for this season, but for the year in total to YOU, our community and membership for your continued support, and ALSO, to those who’ve thrown so much in for 2012, so thank you…
Duncan Moore, Emma Knott, Dan West, Charles Golding, Steph Urquhart, Doug Baker, Sally Wilks, Lucy Hill, Fiona Thomas, Juliet Colbert, Tracie Laurinaitis, Alan Maddrell, Jimi Odell, Will Baltyn, Chris Stooke, Marcus Mollan, Mark Ewins, Anna Marx, Catherine Kolubayev, Kate Moore, Su Vigus, James Laing, Ronan Fitzgerald, Tracey Pocock, Bernard Doogan, Dawn Williams, Richard Evans, Imogen Levy, Adam Moulder, Chris Warren, Stephen Russell, Neil Duggan, Fran Rafferty, Layla Estasy, Sophie Head, Isabel Eriksson, Pip Brewer, Matthew Partridge, Kathy Robbins, Charlotte Blake, Zoe Ashdown, Ernesta Vainovskaja, Michael Barry, Zoe Thomas-Webb, Mary Groom, Amy Bird, Julia Collier, Kathy Petrakis, Sarah Hennan, Carl Fletcher, Frances Bushe *DEEP BREATH* Helen Niland, Katherine Wootton, Richard Williams, Ciara Robley, Sian Davies, Carrie Johnston, Amy Jackson, Helen Jackson, Peter Cabrera, Trina Hasthorpe, Govind Hodgson, Bernard O’Sullivan, Michael Johnston, Lisa Moore, Nick Dastoor, Jeremy Small, Alex Waddington, Samantha Merrydew, March Fothergill, Fiona O’Sullivan, Anna Whitelock, Catherine Ion, Kevin Morin, Oli Wilson, Caleb Watson, Francis Whittaker, Invo Dinkov, James Tulley, Kim Morrison, Maeve McClenaghan, Vanessa Okello, David Balfour, Nick Franco, David Crackles, Jacqui Adams, Asma Mani, James Killeen, Tracie Laurinaitis, Sarah Beebe, Jess Battersby, Matt Hudson, Elizabeth Daly, Hayden Bennett, Ida Scofano, Marlies Kunnen, Lucy Walker, Sky Bembury, Alice Jeffrey, Jules Cross, Tash Muntoni, Chris Penney, Eddie Register, Clive Eliot, Alexis Coward, Cara Baressi, Abi Deffee, Beccy Reese, Rob Timbrell, Ciaran Cunningham, Matt Matravers, Simon Hill, Julia Collier, Alex Wheeler, Rebecca Ison, Alexandra Mackenzie-Smith, Catlin Homes, Nigel Barker, Sarah Lowes, Leila Mountford, Rebecca Shoot, Rob Britton, Melissa Reardon, Tom Mannings, Claire Stone, all our contacts at Questors and the RSC, Charlotte, Martin and Ryan and the other guys at the Etcetera Theatre and George, Bianca and all of the Giant Olive guys at The Lion and Unicorn!
We’re already off to a flying start for 2013 too! You Decide is a VERY cool new thing we’re trying in the shape of an audience interactive theatre pieve – Auditions are TONIGHT Monday 10th. Details are on the website! We also have two of our plays in place for our Spring Season! A Spotlight Showcase for two actors, in the form of The Early Bird, to be directed by first time collaborator, long time friend, Zoe Thomas-Webb, and our Ensemble Classic, Richard III, to be directed by Chris Warren, formerly of The Priory, Measure for Measure and Anna Karenina! You can find out more from THEM at our pub quiz in The Hoop and Grapes on Thursday!
Phew! If you’ve made it this far, treat yourself to a cookie.
My fingers are numb, but my note is complete!
See you ALL very soon!
Bring on 2013!
Andy Marchant
KDC Chair