Rehearsals

Rehearsals going well for Gyllyngdune and just pulling together all the work for the next two at Godolphin and Mousehole. Rehearsals started with Cornish langauge input, many people know Cornish bards! but only one of us remembered our homework of sourcing some Cornish words !! I forgot until journey down that we planned to build on Sally's lively and lovely poetry workshop last week - after sharing an artists vision and process it's good to return to that input and use your own voice. Shallal is different from many, because we use our own voices and it is the rich interactions and differences that give it it's wealth and variety, the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts! but the parts are pretty fantastic, many people are stand alone artists as well as collaborators..anyway enough of that...

Some lovely poems with threads or all of Cornish language for Mousehole,
followed by Rory, Colin, Toby, Linda and company working hard to look at costume.
So grateful for this as we have lost our costume support recently.
Generous offer of costume support and visit from Maria of Castaway. www.castaway-penzance.co.uk
(Before moving to Cornwall Maria worked with www.castaway-goole.co.uk. Maria is looking for more support especially a piano accompanist...... as they want to build on their core group. I often meet people who love musical theatre, so now there's the opportunity to be fully involved in it.)

A good first run through and building all the time, fantastic poem from Debbie and Eddie with musician Wendy having recently joined us..lovely to have her with us and a great help pulling themes together with music. Even the tree dance, with no tree and no Kerry looking good!
I am holding back from sharing too much detail about the performance.
Display of images, poems etc going up at Gyllyngdune next Tuesday hopefully.

Many ideas bubbling in the pipeline: studios again! maybe it's time has come, more news soon,
new Facebook group.....

Outreach Performance as part of University College Falmouth’s Torch Relay Celebration.
in Marquee at Events Square in front of the Maritime Museum, Falmouth
on Olympic Torch Day
 Saturday 19th May,
1.30pm -1.45pm

new piece from Penryn group and some work for summer shows on show

more information about the day on www.falmouth.co.uk/homepage/olympic-torch-relay


on a personnal note Michael ( our 14yr old son ) is running with the Olympic torch through Falmouth, route not decided yet.....


Exhibition at Studio 61 had to be cut short due to a building issue but some of the work will still be there for a while and some will go to Gyllyngdune Gardens.
Really pleased with how it went, many thanks to Studio 61 for the opportunity and hope to build on it for the future.