Of wordplays, and their ramifications.......

At the recent committee meeting, the discussion turned, as it does, to knitting and crocheting, to which I mentioned antimaccassars. Someone mentioned that they were anti antimaccassars, but when you think about it, that means they're pro maccassars. Or are they just maccassars?

Ideas, clarifications, etc. welcome.

Another item discussed at the meeting was what shows we were doing in 2010. There is probably going to be a Jane Austen play at the start of the year, then someone suggested Beowulf as a complete contrast. There was another suggestion for a second Jane Austen play as a doubleheader, but there was a feeling that variety was better. Someone else suggested Jane Austens Beowulf as another idea, which would make for interesting reading, something along the lines of:

Beowulf journeyed to the nearby village and split the chief of the village in twain for his refusal to bow to Beowulf. He then gathered all the women of the village and took them to his castle. Upon his return, he spoke to his lieutenant and told him to divide the spoils amongst his men. The day was long, and Beowulf became weary. He sat down and had an entire ox for dinner, then retired to his chamber for the evening.

Slightly bad, I know, but if you can do better, leave a reply, pilgrim!

Alright, it's a bit late, but once again, for the suppression of your Internet cravings are the:

LINKS OF THE WEEK

cracked.com

Humour for those that want a fix of all things trivial.

deviantart.com

Eye candy. Good.

1.fm

Streaming music of all types, with no announcers, and occasional ads. Great quality. Great music. Great stuff.

King of Swords

Based in Napier, New Zealand, a shop with swords, knives, and axes to satisfy the inner medievalist in all of all. Heaps more, too.

The Nukes blitz the Little Theatre

When a group of musicians can get a room full of people smiling and tapping their feet with just their voices, a ukelele and an empty beer bottle, they are a special group indeed.

And so it proved when Auckland-based ukelele group The Nukes made their first foray outside of the big smoke to the Little Theatre last night for a workshop and concert.

The lineup of Ben Collier, David Theile and Dave Parker gave a packed house two hours of entirely original songs about everything from peas and carrots to the Manukau Harbour, and just about everything inbetween. With their skilfully arranged harmonies, and ukeleles of all types, along with a natural sense of humour, they engaged the audience from the very start, and despite a technical mishap along the way, kept everyone smiling until the very end of their two encores.

To top all that off, earlier in the afternoon, they hosted a workshop where anybody who wanted to have a go at playing a musical instrument could come along, be given a ukelele, and by the end of an hour, be playing along to a song written by the band. All in all, a muscial and humourous day, enjoyed by all, and we look forward to their return.

Many thanks to Dean Taylor of the Te Awamutu Courier for his help in bringing the band to Te Awamutu, and supplying the photo of the concert, and Ian and Sue Dobbs for the halftime food.

Links of the week #2 ! ! !

Dylanradio.com

Bob Dylan, poet and songwriter. Live 24/7 to your PC.

Arts and Letters Daily

The best in intelligent writing from newspapers and journals from around the world. Warning - a highbrow website - take your time to digest the content within.

Topgear.com

What do you get when you get three middle-aged Poms to mess about in cars? Bloke heaven, that's what. Warning! Content may be addictive!

Project Gutenberg

If a piece of literature has fallen out of copyright, it has ended up electronically here. Conan Doyle, Shakespeare, Homer, Ben Jonson, and more. A grab bag of great reading, with plenty of search options.

The Freesound Project

Have you, for any or no particular reason, wanted a sound effect? Of anything? Look no further. Birds, cars, doors, electronic tones, the human voice, its all here, recorded and contributed by volunteers at no cost. Enjoy.


Got any good websites you'd like to share with the rest of the Internet? Leave a comment, and we'll repost them next week!

Health and Safety, theatre style

At a recent committee meeting, the issue of health and safety in the theatre arose, and the warning signs that would be necessary to keep people health and safe in the theatre. Below are a few suggestions.

* 'Warning: May Contain Nuts'
* On the tree: 'HAZARD'
* In auditorium: 'Theatre Management takes no responsibility for lack of entertainment.'
*On door of Green Room: 'Please do not feed the actors.'
*On Theatre door: 'The ramp you have just traversed is a hazard. Please take care.'
* 'Beware: thespians at large.'
* 'Caution: sinking theatre'.
* 'Abandon hope all ye who enter here.'

Any other ideas, suggestions, are welcome, so go ahead. Espouse a sign that will make our theatre a safer (and funnier) place!

Links of the week!!

For your delectation and enlightenment, here is a selection of stuff our members have found whilst trawling the InterWeb.

http://www.live365.com/stations/muppetcentral

All the TV shows, movies, whatever! If the muppets sung something, you'll find it played here.



Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb

So cheesy, but yet so cool.....


Goon Show Radio

The original offbeat comedy.

Hello there,and welcome to the blog of the Te Awamutu Little Theatre! A place where people from all walks and persuasions of life have come together to create rambling conversations, illuminated headboxes, creaking floors (and some live theatre to boot!) Sound appealing? Let us take you on a tour through our illustrious building, and draw you further into our web of slightly altered reality, and lose yourself to our madness!! Mwahahahahaha!...... Er, hem. Right, lets go!


Our theatre:

In a previous life, this was the towns schoolhouse, and the feeling still lingers, as many unusual and rambling conversations, and much unusual acting has taken place within these four walls.










We now walk up the slippery ramp of Doom:*

*Levels of doom may vary from day to day, and is subject to avaliability. The Little Theatre takes no responsibility for the amount of Doom found on the ramp, and may, from time to time, remove any Doom from this ramp without prior warning.

As you ascend the ramp, you will walk past the Weed Tree:

This tree was a seedling in the ground not all that long ago, but has now grown enough to make people trip on it, shed leaves everywhere, start to get into the foundations of the building and the ramp, and in general, make a nusciance of itself. Many hours have been spent by the members discussing how we can make the tree sick, or go away, but that's a story for another posting.......






Into the entrance foyer with the misaligned wallpaper:



Into the theatre with the creaking floors, 70s chairs, and dodgy rostra:**





**Levels of tackiness and dodginess may vary from those depicted in the image.

And finally into the uncluttered, spacious, green room:***


















***Please note that there is no green in the room as far as we are aware. The walls are covered by so much stuff that we don't know what colour they are. Also note that the space avaliable in the room for actors is inversely proportional to the amount of clutter in the room.

So, there we are. Are you more interested? Curious? Revolted? If so, stay in touch, and read on, for more of the same, yet only different!