Francesca Grillo

by

Denise Deegan

It's time to break out the hockey sticks and join Daisy, who, despite being from a lower class background, has won a scholarship to attend Grangewood school, a very upperclass school for girls from rich, well-to-do families.Together with her new best friend Trixie, our heroine is about to discover that Grangewood holds secrets of 'treasure and adventure'! Performed in our usual fun, tongue-in-cheek style, "Daisy Pulls it off" promises to be a right rip-roaring romp!

Wednesday 7th - Saturday 10th May 2008 at 7:30pm

The Compass Theatre, Ickenham

Tickets £10
Opening night all tickets £7.50
Concessions available Thursday only £7.50

If you have read my previous entry to this one, you'll understand this next bit:

Now, just had a read through today for the script, and it's dawned on me just HOW much I have to learn within the next 8 weeks. Let's just say silent panic set in.

The reason I ask for help is the following: Due to the many monologues, plus duologues I need to learn, I'm thinking the best way to learn the words and be off book asap, is, recording them onto a dictaphone (voice recorder thingy) and playing it back until I'm literally dreaming of the words.
(the author of this delightful play thought it would be rather a laugh to put in as much description as physically possible. This now means I need to learn all these descriptions as most of them are now cues for the rest of the cast. Ack)

So my request is the following; Does anyone know of any good model which 1) they know is reliable 2) won't make my wallet cry bitterly.
Although I'll mainly be using it for this play, I'm thinking it may be a useful item to have around the house, so the cheaper the better really, but I want it to be a model that will work for at least 8 weeks!

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I'm looking into buying one by Wednesday cos the sooner the better. We don't have rehearsals next week and I'd like to use that time wisely.

Thanks in advance.

Current Mood: tired and sniffly

*waits for the mass of snuffled giggling to die down*

...no this isn't sudo porn I'm referring to. It is in fact the play in which Daisy Meredith, an elementary school girl who receives a scholarship to enter a prectigious educational establishment (oh yes), enters a treasure hunt quest...thing with her best gal pal Trixie, to help save her dear school, during which other girls who've taken a disliking to her, do everything in their power to run her out of the school.

It has been described as a 'jolly hockey sticks' play and is the latest play to be put together by Purple Theatre.

This is the first of a few announcements I will be putting on here as I'd love it if people could make it down and see it, as I will be reverting to my true mental age (pre-teens) and playing the part of Daisy herself.....indeed

So if you fancy coming down and watching a group of girls get into a bit of a pickle, encounter twists and turns and generally have a bit of a laf, come on down!

Dates: 7th-10th May

(more information will be put up later)

*sigh*

The sigh above, is not just a small sigh.
It's a sigh of intense relief
It's a sigh of having endured months of trudgery and having finally pulled through.

Well, that's one New Years resolution down...about 5 or so more to go. This is the first New Year's resolution I've actually pulled through with

I'd have to say mine for the coming year are:

1 - get a new job 
2 - get a new place for Jan
3 - try and maintain a tidy place
4 - write more
5 - draw more

Of course there are a couple of others, but we'll see

Enlighten me people...what're your resolutions for the coming year?