1.  Your contact information (obviously);

2.  The title and a short description of the play;

3.  A breakdown of your actor/set/costume/prop requirements (rough ideas are fine at this stage);

4.  A brief summary of your concept for the production (are you adapting an old script, are you thinking of anything special in terms of venue, timing Etc.); and,

5.  A description of your prior directing experience.

Many thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you! – open to members and non-members alike.

Lady — Anna Barrett

Eat, Play, Love in Dubai - Author, Mike Green - Director, Ciaran Mulhern

Narrator — Alex Skidmore

Woman 1 — Aimee Hedley

Woman 2 — Alex Pisetskaya

Woman 3 — Aileen Kelly

Loved and Lost – Author, Kathryn Pepper – Director, Georgiana Jennings – Assistant Director, Nameeta Jamal

Sarah — Sarah Murphy

Rob — Mike Green

Dubai Triptych – Author, Cliff Single – Director, Brent Jenkins

Room For Improvement

Jeff – Toby Mason

Chris —Brook Butterworth

Tom — Eric Dury

Adam — Amlan Sengupta

Lost and Found

Sanjay – Salman Qureshi

Tariq – Jamal Iqbal

Friends and Colleagues

Will – Toby Mason

Mike  – Eric Dury

That Explains a Lot – Author, Jana Single – Director, Jennifer Stelco

Maggie — Claire Bennet

Scott Teece — Mike Green

Aref Chambers — Simon Holmes

Adam Johnson — Zain Arshad Sheikh

Dave Collins/Eddie — Gordon Torbet

Chips – Author, Jaakko Virtanen – Director, Gere George Kuruvilla

Annie — Lamya Tawfik

Tim — Salman Qureshi

I Can’t Stay Mad at You – Author, Cameron Wilson – Director, Nameeta Jamal – Assistant Director, Georgiana Jennings

Jenny — Aimee Hedley

Connor — Alex Skidmore 

Jenny (Dream Sequence) —

Connor (Dream Sequence) — Ben Franklin

Birthday Party – Author, Samatha Wragg – Director, Rayan Black

Britiny —

Greg — Rayan Black

Nabil — Namood

Tharaya — Beatriz Browne

Casting? Call Backs? More Auditions? the hard part for the Directors has begun. Keep an eye on the Facebook page and the Website for next steps and anouncements.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Exploring the Culture of the UAE

Sticking with the wish for locally inspired pieces, the Committee has set the theme for this year as “Eat, play, love: your journey through Dubai”. Writers are encouraged to think about every aspect of life, be it business, leisure, relationships or the challenges we all face in a rapidly expanding melting-pot country.

There is no age limit and the DDG is particularly interested in receiving more scripts from Emirati writers and from writers living in all of the Emirates. Entries should strictly be no longer than ten minutes long in performance time. There should also be a maximum of four characters in each entry. Writers may submit a one-act play, a stand-alone scene or indeed a series of sketches. There are no restrictions on content, style or substance and writers are encouraged to push creative boundaries.

As in previous years, Dubai Drama Group will cast, direct and produce the best entries and the winner will be decided by the audiences, who will vote for their favourite pieces.

The deadline for the competition is Sunday, October 23rd and entries should be submitted as a Word document by email to info@dubaidramagroup.com with the subject line: Entry for Write Now III.

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.

Harold Pinter’s writing career spanned over 50 years. As well as The Birthday Party, his works include The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted to film. His screenplay adaptations of others’ works included The Servant (1963), The GoBetween (1970), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Writing. He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others’ works. Pinter received over 50 awards, prizes, and other honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 and the French Légion d’honneur in 2007.

Our production of The Birthday Party will be held in thejamjar in Al Quoz on the evenings of October 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th, 15th with the performance commencing at 7.30PM. Entrance is by donation on the night. Further details, including a location map, can be found on http://www.thejamjardubai.com/ and the Dubai Drama Group Facebook page.