The Company is an amateur theatre group with members across Sheffield and South Yorkshire. We have been established for over a decade and have developed a reputation for high quality theatre worthy of the professional stage. We perform three plays a year at The University of Sheffield's Drama Studio, a renowned intimate theatre venue. Our members are encouraged to give creative input at all stages of production including script writing, set design, stage management, directing and acting. Our next production is Aphra Behn's The Rover which will be in the Drama Studio from Wednesday June 18th until Saturday June 21st and at the Dore festival Wednesday July 9th.

This blog will contain the thoughts and feelings of those members of The Company putting together this production of The Rover.

Who is blogging here? John is our leading man playing Willmore, the eponymous 'Rover' he is also managing the production, ensuring that all the disparate creative and technical strands come together to produce a whole play. Cassandra is new to on stage work with The Company having previously been part of the epic crew for "Noises Off". Alison is the director and has also done some of the adaption work to ensure the audience can understand what is going on and that the dirty jokes really shine though. Tony is playing Ned Blunt and will be battling with being typecast as a bumbling idiot and comedy costuming.
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Sunday, 11 May 2008

"...and then jump on the bed..."

"...and kick him in the face".

Not really what you were expecting eh? Well it's that kind of play. There is, I hasten to add, the other kind of jumping on beds, just to make it clear for those that would otherwise be disappointed. But honestly, it's OK to bring your elderly relatives to it.

Well it's starting to get hot now, and we're at the stage where we wonder why we always end up doing a costume drama, preferably with lots of energetic running around, in the summer. I mean I'm not complaining but couldn't we just, for once, do something that involves chilling out in T-shirts...

It all brings back traumatic memories of the Zenda incident. Well, traumatic for Jenny certainly...
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