Festival Accolades for Drama Club
Aberfeldy Drama Club’s outstanding play Interview - a fugue for 8 actors, written by Jean-Claude Van Italie, proved to be a real winner at the Scottish Community Drama Association’s Festival of One Act Plays at Birnam at the beginning of March, writes Polly Pullar.
Directed by Pat Zich, the cast of four women and four men have now qualified for the next round of the competition which takes place on Saturday 3 March at the Birnam Institute. They also took the trophy for the Best Moment of Theatre with their hilarious hospital operating theatre mime scene. |
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A complex, humorous and fast moving play comprising slick timing, controlled monologues, clever lighting and choreography, and inspired ensemble work, the cast members (above) gave quite brilliant performances both individually and as a seamless team.
They produced all their own sound effects including some excellent singing, and inventive mime. Their win was well-deserved for the play is demanding and complex and could not have been better performed.
The Youth group fared less well with Fergus Crystal’s Secret, Secret Millionaire, however the audience all agreed that theirs was a most amusing and entertaining production with great individual performances from Roddy Macaskill, Neal Ford, Kevin McNiven, Emma Carmichael, Corrie Dougall and Shona Reed.
It is hoped that both plays will be put on for a night of entertainment with additional music from the pupils of Breadalbane Academy in the Town Hall on a date to be arranged in April.
Pitlochry Successes
The SCDA Festival audience also saw adjudicators award a trophy to Pitlochry's Atholl Players for their performances. The Players 'B' cast secured the Sandy Miller Cup for Me and My Friend Act 2 by Gillian Plowman; and the Players 'A' cast lifted the Roy Caterer Quaich for the best staging and set for When A Man Knows by Alan Richardson
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