Roughshod - on the road!

The 2010 Roughshod company have begun their tour with two great school visits. They would like to thank everyone for their hospitality and making them feel so welcome!

FULL HOUSE

Well things have, as usual, been pretty busy! The building is full to the brim with actors, directors, designers, technicians and wardrobe supervisors. Roughshod are nearing the end of their rehearsal period and have already had various opportunities to hone their workshop skills in schools and prisons. Last night an invited audience saw a full preview of their show, which was a great success, and on Saturday they head off on their tour!

The cast of new Passion Play The Narrow Road arrived on Monday and seem to be doing well. All of them are familiar faces to us so it’s great to have them back. However, we don’t see them much as they appear to be learning lines every minute that they’re not rehearsing…

As well as all of this, on Saturday we had a great Members’ Day, with 40 of our Members here with us. It was a great chance to catch up with what’s going on within the company, what our Members have been doing, and share our hopes for the year ahead. There was some really good food too.

Happy New Year from all at Riding Lights!

Well here we are in a rather snowy 2010! And even just two weeks into the New Year it looks set to be a busy one. Arguably one of the best things about our home at Friargate is all the new and smiling faces that come through our doors throughout the year, and January is certainly a time when we welcome a lot of new people onboard. Sally and Kelvin's new Education Assistant Rosie seems right at home after just one week, and meeting the youth theatre last night as term started hasn't seemed to put her off just yet...

In five days we welcome our new Roughshod company, Dipo, Jon, Briony, Edith and Rachel (pictured). They will spend six weeks with us as they rehearse, devise, create workshops and generally prepare to embark on a six month tour of the UK. We're very excited about working with them, and having met them a few times already and had two of them act in On Christmas Night, we're sure this is set to be a great tour!

Crossing the border!

On the road to Scotland Rachel reports more enjoyable times on the Origins tour. Great hospitality and audiences have helped to make it a great tour although the cast are looking forward to shortly returning to see everyone in York!!!

The Ten Commandments remake is finally here!

Origins and Lemons on the road.....

A week of good audiences and generous hosts. Illness has once again hit the camp with Rachel and Alan feeling a bit ropey!

THE SKY'S THE LIMIT - SCAFELL PIKE UPDATE!

Desmond the Camel, Snowy the Black Sheep, Paul, Kelvin, Ian and a couple of goats have all safely returned from their sponsored Lake District remake of the 1956 epic movie The Ten Commandments. Thanks to all who sponsored so generously in aid of The Sky's the Limit.

The final movie is still being edited, but early footage shows some rather diva-like behaviour and a few questionable budget cutting special effects. Here's a taster...