After reviewing all the entries for “Write Now! III”, our 3rd 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 15th, 16th and 17th 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.
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