Lorn drama group sweeps into regional final
Benderloch and North Connel Drama Club is into the west divisional final of the Scottish Community Drama Association competition following a win at the Kintyre District Festival.
The small team of amateur actors, directed by Mike Rowell, took their production of what is originally a radio play to the Victoria Hall in Campbeltown on February 27.
‘Tanglewood’ by Clara Glynn is about a mediation over a defamation case involving a documentary, which interviews the former child star and others involved in the making of an iconic film released 40 years previously.
Each party has their own agenda about what they want to achieve from the mediation and sparks fly as a result.
The mediation is overseen by Murdo (Innes Mackichan), while the two sides, Henry (Neil Sutherland), Tanglewood’s director, and Alice (Eilidh Orr), the documentary director, and Laura (Marian Milarvie), the now grown-up child actor, argue over issues the documentary focusses on from the filming of Tanglewood in the 1980s.
Meanwhile Laura’s unsympathetic mother Sandra (Fiona Turnbull), who was her chaperone at the time, refuses to get drawn into any of it.
Adjudicator Dave Bennet, who had just two adult plays to oversee in the two-day drama festival also involving junior plays, said the very competent cast had overcome the challenge of bringing a radio play to the stage with very clever use of multimedia, which enhanced the performance.
He awarded Benderloch and North Connel first place, plus the awards for production, highest marks for acting and stage presentation.
Campbeltown’s Accent Players won the award for ‘most entertaining play’ and gained second overall with ‘The Spy Who Came in for the Phone’ by Alan Richardson, a madcap comedy where a phone was an extra ‘character’.
The Benderloch and North Connel group, along with prompt Sue Pagan, will now go on to perform at the Western Divisional Final at Beacon Studio Theatre in Greenock on April 4.
The club will also be taking the play to North Lorn Drama Festival, March 27-28 at Appin Community Hall Appin and Lorn Drama Festival at the Corran Halls Studio Theatre, May 15-17.
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