{"id":3587,"date":"2023-02-23T21:26:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T21:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madf.im\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2023-02-23T21:26:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T21:26:55","slug":"easter-festival-2023-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madf.im\/?p=3587","title":{"rendered":"Easter Festival 2023 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A full week of plays staged by theatre groups from the island and across the UK are set to perform in two newly merged festivals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Booking has opened for the Manx Amateur Drama Federation\u2019s (MADF) Easter Festival of Full Length and One Act Plays, which takes place at the\u00a0Gaiety Theatre<\/a>\u00a0from April 8 to 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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MADF president Michael Lees told Island Life: \u2018It will be two festivals in one although they will be adjudicated separately giving winners for one act and full length.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018The plays will be mixed throughout the week so an audience will have the opportunity to see a night of one acts followed by a full length play the following evening.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The opening performance, on Easter Saturday (April 8) will be Service Players\u2019 production of the one-act drama Lovers by Tony Rushforth, a previous adjudicator. It\u2019s set at a graveside, with three characters all speaking to the deceased as if he is still here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They will be followed by a one act youth entry, Broadway Youth Theatre\u2019s production of Sweep Under The Rug by island writer Lindsay Price.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The play envisions a future where struggling families are placed in the Bobby Sue program, a computerised guardian of sorts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Shopshire group Wellington Theatre Company return to the island to present the full length play Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett on Easter Sunday (April 9).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Michael said: \u2018This play has been presented many times throughout the world to great acclaim.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The two leading characters are tramps and explain the world as they see it while they wait for Godot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They will be followed by another full length entry, by Northampton group White Cobra Productions on April 10 with The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s about two brothers living alone in their father\u2019s house after his recent death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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April 11 will see two One Act\u00a0 entries from the island.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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First up will be Platform Theatre School\u2019s production of black comedy Heritage by Dafydd James, which explores the darker side of nationalism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And they will be followed by Parodos Theatre Company with horror\/drama The Monkey\u2019s Paw by William Wymark Jacobs, with a lesson about being careful what you wish for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Three One Act plays will be staged on April 12.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Youth group Yn Draamey will present the drama Chiller by Christopher J. Maybury, set in a world of low budget horror films which take on an all too real aspect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And then there will be two adult entries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Service Players will present The Photograph by Lisa M. Smith, about two sisters who find a mystery photo in their mother\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And then Rushen Players will perform Accident of Birth by Trevor Suthers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This sees an inmate in Broadmoor confront his birth mother to discover the cause of his insanity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Yn Draamey will be first on stage on April 13 with their youth one act entry Faces in The Dark by Christopher J. Maybury, about four children trapped in a purgatory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They will be followed by Rushen Players with the adult one act entry comedy\/drama September In The Rain by John Godber. It follows a married couple through their relationship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Finally, Friday, April 14 will see London group Garden Suburb Theatre present a full length comedy, The Game\u2019s Afoot; or Holmes for the Holidays by Ken Ludwig. It sees an actor take on the persona of his beloved Holmes to solve a death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Each night, the plays will be adjudicated by Robert Meadows from the Guild of Drama Adjudicators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He has been to the island on several occasions to judge the Young Actor of Mann and the One Act Festival of Plays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018He is always very popular with our audiences,\u2019 said Michael.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Awards will be presented on the final night of the festival. Marks will be awarded for acting, production, stage presentation, and endeavour, originality and attainment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Book tickets online at www.villa\u2028gaiety.com or call the box office on 600555.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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An early bird season ticket offer with a \u00a321 saving closes on Monday, February 27.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A full week of plays staged by theatre groups from the island and across the UK are set to perform in two newly merged festivals. Booking has opened for the Manx Amateur Drama Federation\u2019s (MADF) Easter Festival of Full Length and One Act Plays, which takes place at the\u00a0Gaiety Theatre\u00a0from April 8 to 14. MADF … Continue reading Easter Festival 2023 Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}