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Film Workshop with Matt Harris of Thinking Media
On 25 November a small and keen group met Matt for hands-on experience of film-making using tablets, mobile phones and a camera. Everyone had a go at both filming and editing, and Matt provided a booklet with useful information about preparing and completing your project.
Matt's website is https://thinking-media.co.uk
Unlikely Lads
An evening of drama and music commemorating the Centenary of the Armistice with St George's Choir and Players, St George's Beckenham,
Saturday 3 November at 6 pm. Tickets £5 from the Beckenham Bookshop 0208 650 9744 and the Church Office (11 am – 3 pm) 0208 663 6996.
The programme will
"Heavenly Drama from Radius"
Our President Stephen Platten was interviewed in the Methodist Recorder, Issue 8381, 10 August. To order a copy, go to www.methodistrecorder.co.uk or www.newsstand.co.uk.
Radius Christmas
In Time to Sing by Keith Clements the angelic choir rehearses for an important event which is to take place on earth, and in Christmas Through the Window by Richard Tydeman a couple living opposite the Bethlehem inn watch the comings and goings and offer help.
Other copiable scripts from Radius include two by Les Ellison, the hugely popular Are the Kings Still Wearing Curtains? for a flexible mixed-age cast, and Special Delivery, eleven short and lively modern dramas exploring the ways in which the Christmas message was delivered in the traditional nativity story. The dramas make up a complete nativity play, but each scene serves as a play in itself and so one or two could be used in a carol service or concert.
A full selection of Radius Christmas scripts is available in the shop.
Radius’s regular annual event is the weekend of the Annual General Meeting, when we provide drama and social opportunities in addition to the meeting itself. We also mount one-off events such as book launches, lectures and receptions. Radius Members are welcome to publicise their own drama-related events on these pages and in the Radius Performing magazine.
Events & news
Father and Son: Son and Father,
a Passion Play by Neville Boundy with David Kerby-Kendall as Jesus and Brian Cook as God was presented as a meditation for Holy Week on Palm Sunday 2014 in the church of St Mary
The Virgin, North
Stoke, West Sussex.
The director was
Yvette Byrne and
the soprano Birgit
Rowhowska provided
inspirational music.
The production was
presented by The
Churches Conservation Trust and The Friends of St Mary’s in association with Radius. The first performance in Arundel was reviewed in the Radius newsletter No.8, September 2012.
The theatre is one of the most expressive and useful vehicles for the edification of a country's people, and a barometer that marks the country's greatness or declines. A sensitive theatre . . . can alter a people's sensibility in just a few years, while a decadent theatre where hooves have taken the place of wings can cheapen and lull to sleep an entire nation. Federico Garcia Lorca, 1898-1936
Sacred Spaces
by Les Ellison, Nick Warburton, James Lark
A year in the life of a church community: nine short dramas to be performed separately or as a single one-act play. More info
Easter Diaries & Christmas Diaries
by Nick Warburton
These collections of short monologues were first heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra and can be presented singly or as a sequence, giving you the flexibility to tailor your choice to fit your actors.
Radius Writers' Group
The Writers' Group meets regularly at a London venue to share work-in-progress, from experienced practitioners to beginners, followed by a theatre outing. To express your interest please email [email protected].
Pages are currently being updated or added to the Radius website, so be sure to check it out again shortly.
include dramas from the Radius volumes Sacred Spaces and Reconciliation/
Remembrance, an excerpt from Les Ellison's play Unlikely Lads, and some specially commiss-ioned pieces, while the choir is well-known for its outstanding quality.
