STOP PRESS
Mole Valley Scriptwriters' success at
Leatherhead Drama Festival 2010

The group presented an original play OBEYING ORDERS
Written and Directed by member Stefan Dubois
in this years LEATHERHEAD DRAMA FESTIVAL

The Production won second price in the festival

The play won the award for BEST NEW WRITING

Both the actors
David Cunningham and Drew Thomas
were nominated for best actor
And David Cunningham won the award

THE DOOR won Best New Writing last year
The actors were awarded Best Actor Jointly,
as the adjudicator could not split them.

To BOOK SEATS
To see OBEYING ORDERS again with
Blessed Assurance by Tony Earnshaw

At THE WOKING DRAMA FESTIVAL 2010

Other Successes of our writers

Leatherhead Drama Festival May 2009 Best new writing;
joint best actor
for the two actors

Woking Drama Festival October 2009
Our two entries came 1st & 3rd
3rd place production
Best Director
All actors nominated for best actor
Winners of best Actor and Actress

Elmbridge Drama Festival March 2010 Best Actor
Best single sex 2010 Best play
Best single sex play

THE DOOR WINS AWARD

Tony Earnshaw has just learnt from the National Drama Festivals Association that he has won the George Taylor Memorial Award with his play THE DOOR in the NDFA Playwriting Competition for 08/09.
The award will be presented on the 31st July at the end of the All Winners festival.
There will be a reading on the Friday morning.
We all know how well deserved this is.
WELL DONE TONY!

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
The Door on the Fringe

Fresh from winning Best Play at the Maidenhead Festival and sell out shows in Bracknell's South Hill Park, and now the George Taylor Memorial Award, Unfit Productions have been
busy finalising arrangements to take The Door to Edinburgh. Tony says "We are thrilled to be performing in one of the Fringe's premier locations - The Gilded Balloon."

The Gilded Balloon's position as a premier venue is based on intriguing, imaginative, adventurous and international programming covering
exciting dance and physical theatre, spine chilling plays and challenging drama, children's shows and the cream of stand up,
improvisation and character comedy.

The Door will play from 6th to 29th August at 12.30pm each day and will contribute some of the 'challenging drama' - and some humour
along the way. Tickets available from the Gilded Balloon box office.

Why the Gilded Balloon?

At the end of the 18th century the medieval closes surrounding the Gilded Balloon's old home in Edinburgh's Cowgate (destroyed by a
disastrous fire in 2002) were incorporated into the piers of Robert Adam's massive South Bridge. The pedimented gable adjoining the
Bridge is after Adam's design and originally housed an elegant drapery store advertising under the sign of 'Gilded Balloon'. The first
balloon flight in Britain took place in Edinburgh in 1784, only a few months after the Montgolfier brothers' historic manned flight in Paris.
Ballooning became such a craze that fashionable Edinburgh ladies took to wearing huge wire and gauze bonnets in the shape of hot air
balloons.

Edinburgh Castle

So, what is The Door about?

A room, a banging door. Two men converse, bicker and joke about politics, religion, trivia and consequences - we gradually realize they
aren't strangers. Somebody died …

Come along to the Gilded Balloon and find out the rest - and why the production has won so many awards.

The Door goes to RAF Lineham

Among the audience at South Hill Park was a group from RAF High Wycombe who will be performing The Door as part of an RAF festival
of drama at RAF Lineham. Those who have seen the play will know why that is quite a special event.

Mole Valley Script Writers news

The Door was written with much support and encouragement from Mole Valley Script Writers Group (MVSWG).
So what is the group up to now?

Monthly meetings continue with a varied group of writers interested in film, theatre, TV and more besides. Entries have been submitted
for both the Leatherhead and Woking Drama festivals - Obeying Orders by Stefan Dubois and Blessed Assurance by Tony Earnshaw
respectively. Leatherhead Drama Festival is in full swing as I write and Obeying Orders certainly impressed on Monday evening. The
group won a raft of awards at these festivals last year - for The Door and Stefans play 'Immaculate'. We hope to do the same again. New
members always welcome.

ABOUT Jean Boht our patron.

Since the group's revival in 2007 the group has grown and prospered.

In October 2009 Jean Boht kindly agreed to become out patron. Jean is probably best remember as Nellie Boswell in Bread and performances in Doctors and cameo appearance in just about every other TV series since Softly, Softly and Z Cars.. She also has a long and illustrious stage career stretching back to her childhood.

WORKING WITH OTHER GROUPS

One way we would like to share our success is to work with local drama groups to develop new plays that they could present, either one acts for drama festival or full length plays. Local film makers might also be interested in collaborating. Any group interested in participating in a joint venture should email us or phone on 01372 277593

Cathy Brett's
illustrated teen-novel
EMBER FURY
is proving to be a great success.

EMBER FURY is creating quite a buzz
in the teen press and on Young Adult websites
It has also been chosen as
'Border's Children's Book of the Month'
For more info,
competitions and to watch the videos,
checkout: www.emberfury.co.uk

(published 06.08.09 -
Order online @ www.bartonsbookshop.co.uk)

Cathy Brett's
New illustrated teen-novel
Scarlett Dedd
is due to be published on
2nd September 2010

Advance order on line

Order online @ www.bartonsbookshop.co.uk)

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