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This Property is Condemned:

"A good performance from two young and talented actors. They displayed confidence and related strongly to their roles."

"Overall a very good production in all aspects."

Crave:

"A good production, with excellent team work and four characters that associated well with the material and each other."

"I didn't enjoy this play; I don't think it was done for enjoyment. I did admire the direction, production and the acting and it is very difficult to say anything except 'excellent'."

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Best Youth Drama Production 2007-08

Glammies 2008

Crave: Adam King (B)

Crave: Andrew Machin (A)

This Property is Condemned: Rhys Edwards (Tom)

Crave: Lorun Roberts (C)

Crave: Bethan Thomas (M)

This Property is Condemned: Rhianna Davies (Willie)

And more...    

Here's the company receiving the Youth Award for Crave at the One-Act Play Festival

David Hedley Williams, GODA Adjudicator is in the background. Teri McCarthy, Chair of the GDL is on the left. Bethan and Andrew are in Planet costumes as they had been partof the group performing during the time the adjudicator was making his final decisions. Adam had performed too.

We were faced with a dilemma with this production: with 3 weeks to go, one of the original cast members of Crave dropped out because of work pressures. The situation was exacerbated because between the drop-out date and the first performance in Cardiff was only about 3 weeks. During this time, we had to allow all the necessary space for the main company production of Return to the Forbidden Planet, in which 3 of the cast members were performing..

We were on the verge of withdrawing the production completely, but Bethan Thomas came to our rescue and spent the time doing nothing but line learning...

Because of the situation, on the night of the Cardiff performance, when the Glammies appraisers were in, we were tempted to apologise in advance in case any prompts were needed, but ultimately we decided to go ahead without making any apologies. And it was the right decision!

The cast managed to pull it together - after only 3 rehearsals together - and boy, did they make the audience sit up and listen...

Sterling support as ever from the Littlechild family, especially Kelly who assisted Lon throughout the rehearsal process, did the makeup, prompted and generally was as much part of the team as the cast. Annette Littlechild once again came up trumps helping out wherever needed, as did Wendy and Nigel Davies, helping with costume and set, and Barrie Jones who managed to straighten out our railway lines - and keep them straight!

Top efforts too on the technical side from Stephen Donoghue (sound) and Jack Latham (lighting) for the Cardiff performance, and the same from the Swansea crew (Andrew Merrell and Mike Rainey) when we performed at the One-Act Festival. The whole Swansea crew: Ben, Ryan et al were their usual helpful and supportive selves and made the whole Festival experience so enjoyable. Even if Mike thought the (intentional) blackout was a mistake and brought the lights up full with the actors not knowing what to do for a whole scene (Crave)! But Andrew got the levels for the Cannonball Express in Condemned just right, despite their recording being louder than the engine itself!

Thanks to all and everyone who helped to make the shows such a success.