Thursday 17^th July sees the Valley Theatre Company performing three new plays by SY member Graham Rhodes at Scarborough Library in Vernon Road. Two of the plays are comedies, the third is a more serious offering.

“The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” answers the nagging questions, what do you do when you’re waiting for the end of the world? What do you do when it happens? and what’s this on my pizza?  It stars regular Valley Theatre performers Dave Ashcroft, Chris Parrinder, Karen McCarthy and Michael Upton.

Woke up in Whitby is comedy were a young Goth girl explains how, after an unfortunate series of accidents, instead of spending New Years Eve with her friends, she ends up in Whitby police station. A fine solo performance by Alethea Estill.

Air ticket from Pain is a serious play about endings. It explores the issues around suicide clinics and asks the relative question is it right to end terminal illness with the ultimate pain relief. It stars Chris Parrinder and Claire Belshaw.

The performance starts at 7.30 and entry is £5.00 with concessions for students and OAP’s

 

A new version of Eddie Lawler's Brontë musical "Bells" is being performed in the autumn by a group of talented youngsters.  It forms part of Saltaire Festival, with performances in the United Reformed Church, Saltaire at 7.30 on Friday 19^th and Sunday 21^st September.  It goes to Haworth itself (in shouting distance of the Parsonage) with a performance at the West Lane Chapel at 7.30 on Friday 16^th September, and thence to Ilkley in cameo version, as part of the Ilkley Literature Festival at 9pm on Saturday October 4^th in the Wildman Theatre at Ilkley Playhouse.
Admission to the full-length performances  costs £5/£3, the cameo-version is free.

Vanessa Rosenthal has dramatised this weeks 'Writing the Century' on BBC Radio 4 Womans hour, produced by SY Trustee and member Gary Brown. Click here to listen and find out more.

Michael Stewart has recently launched a new writing venture to place emerging writers with established writers in book form. Information can be found here: www.hud.ac.uk/grist

Also, he has a play premiering in London at the Albany for a three week run starting from 28^th of July 2008. The play is called Brood, a black comedy about a dysfunctional family. For more information see:www.crawldog.com/fleshpottheatre

In addition, he has commissioned four short documentaries about fear, as well as writing stand-up for a London based comic, and working on his art. Below is a link to all three of these projects. Please have a look: www.darkanddirty.co.uk/latestnews.html

Peter Kershaw has a new short film entered for the Virgin Media Shorts Competition. You can view it online here at: http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/1632719444

You can also read viewers comments on the film and post your own.

Eric Yaffey has been congratulated by Colin Lewisohn of Encore (BCB Radio) for having written "such a fine piece as The Tree". It is to be produced this Autumn and aired next year as part of Encore's third season of Theatre-for-the-Ear.