Flea Market

Lady—chatty, setting up her stall for the Zabeel Park Flea Market

Eat, Play, Love in Dubai

Man in a White Suit—non-speaking role, needs to have great facial expressions

Narrator—funeral professional doing perhaps his fifth service of the day

Woman 1—well dressed for a funeral, from the cream of the social set

Woman 2—well dressed for a funeral, from the cream of the social set

Woman 3—well dressed for a funeral, from the cream of the social set

Loved and Lost

Sarah—moved to Dubai to be with her boyfriend who has recently ended the relationship

Rob—best friend of the boyfriend, but also Sarah’s confidant

Dubai Triptych

Jeff—Head of Legal (Plays 1, 2 & 3)

Tariq/ Chris — Lost Property assistant to Manager/ Director of Marketing (Plays 1 & 2)

Tom—Chief Operating Officer (Plays 2 & 3)

Sanjay/ Adam —Lost Property Office manager/ CEO  (Plays 1 & 2)

That Explains a Lot

Maggie—40-something woman, receptionist, professional but with a flustered air

Scott Teece—an arrogant corporate animal, very well-dressed

Aref Chambers—sensibly dressed for the office, typical middle manager

Adam Johnson—intern, tries to dress as well as Scott, but can’t afford it

Dave Collins/Eddie—40-ish man, dressed in slacks and a button shirt with a baseball cap

Chips

Annie—one half of a young couple

Tim—the other half

I Can’t Stay Mad at You

Jenny—one half of a couple in their mid to late twenties

Connor—the other half

Jenny (Dream Sequence)—one half of the couple a few years previously

Connor (Dream Sequence)—the other half

Birthday Party

Britiny—the hostess, very pregnant, English, hairdresser

Greg—the host, laid-back Australian PE teacher

Nabil—Lebanese car salesman and man-about-town

Tharaya—Nabil’s wife, interior designer

It’s here folks, the one you have been waiting for – the New Developments III Call for Auditions….

The Auditions are scheduled for the 3rd and 4th of January 2012, 7.30 – 9.30pm at the Multi-Function Rooms of Golf Tower 2, The Greens, Dubai.

For those of you have had the opportuinity to be involved in previous years, we won’t need to remind you how much fun these New Developments productions are. If this would be your first New Developments show, you should be encouraged by the fact that for many of our members this was thier first introduction to Dubai Drama Group and indeed the world of theatre.

As usual this is going to be a huge production, with aproximately 40 members involved. So if you are interested in acting, props, backstage, front of house, technical team or and other aspect of the production we will have a place for you in the team.

We will be posting more details, including character descriptions, over the coming weeks, so be sure to check back here for details. For now, save the date in your diary…

If you have any questions drop us a note on info@dubaidramagroup.com

After reviewing all the entries for “Write Now! III”, our 3^rd annual playwriting competition, we are delighted to congratulate the following writers who’s plays have been selected for production.

Birthday Party (from Marina Screamer) by Samatha Wragg

Chips by Jaakko Virtanen

Dubai Triptych by Cliff Single

Eat, Play, Love in Dubai by Mike Green

Flea Market by Helen C. Bastable

I Can’t Stay Mad at You by Cameron Wilson

Loved and Lost by Kathryn Pepper 

That Explains a Lot by Jana Single

The Road by Raj Rangwani

These plays will be cast, directed and staged in our Spring production, “New Developments III”, where the audience will vote for their favourite play and decide the winner of the competition.

Again, if you submitted a play but were not selected this time, I hope the feedback we sent was useful. Most importantly please keep writing, honestly all the entries were well put together and in another forum we could produce them all.

If you want to know more about this exciting competition or even be part of the production, keep an eye out for the call to auditions or drop us an E-Mail at info@dubaidramagroup.com and check out the Up-Coing Events Page for details of the Auditions.

It’s December!  Holiday time!  Family time!  And what better way to have fun with the family than to join Ratty, Mole, Badger, Toad and the Wild Wooders on their adventures in Dubai Drama Group’s production of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.

Watch as extravagant Toad ditches his trusty horse Albert for a caravan, then discards the caravan to pursue his sudden passion for motor cars, and it is this passion for motor cars – and driving them dangerously fast – that puts Toad away in prison.

What happens next?  Who are the Wild Wooders and what do they do to Toad Hall while Toad is in prison?  Well, you’ll just have to come along to find out!

The Wind in the Willows will run at the Kilachand Theatre, DUCTAC, Mall of the Emirates on the 15^th, 16^th and 17^th of December, with evening shows at 7:00 and matinee shows on Friday and Saturday at 1:00.

Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad can’t wait to make new friends, so come along!

Tickets are for AED 50 and can be bought at the DUCTAC box office. Make sure you buy your tickets in advance to avoid disappointment!  For more information please contact Drama Group at dubaidramagroup@hotmail.com.

Drawing on the success of this competition, started in 2009, Dubai Drama Group has launched its third annual playwriting competition, ‘Write Now! III’.

The purpose of the competition is to reach out to find talented and promising writers from every corner of the country. Previous years have seen a very high number of entries from a range of ethnic backgrounds, including Emirati writers. Building on the success of the first year, last year again saw an exceptionally high standard of entries and once more Dubai Drama Group was able to produce and perform eight of the best pieces for the public. Read the rest of this entry

Dubai Drama Group is launching its 2011/12 programme with Harold Pinter’s most famous and frequently‐performed play: The Birthday Party. First performed in 1958, the play has had a huge influence on modern theatre, and the word ‘Pinteresque’ has entered the language to denote the unique atmosphere and style of his plays: encompassing a sense of menace, uncertainty and unpredictability.

The Birthday Party is a “comedy of menace” about Stanley Webber, a lodger in a rundown boarding house in an English seaside town with an uncertain past. Two mysterious strangers arrive, supposedly on his birthday and turn Stanley’s apparently innocent birthday party into a nightmare. Read the rest of this entry