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-The Youth Band play
a major role in a recent, very Cornish, play at The Keay Theatre
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The Youth Band showed off their very diverse talents recently when invited to play the part of the village band in a play at the Keay Theatre put on by the dance and drama students of St. Austell college as part of their National Diploma. The play, written by Rod Tinson, was called Kettleboys and Captains. Surrounding the town of St Austell is the vast hinterland of the China Clay Country. This ravaged landscape has been home to generations of clay workers,
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The Opening Scene
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The enormous tips heaped by today's modern machinery conceal the
buried chapels schools and villages of the past. This play attempts
to explore the stories that lie buried beneath those tips. The Kettleboys
and Captains are among the large cast of characters who celebrate
the life of the clay villages.
The play featured final year Dance students and first year Acting students from St. Austell College's Performing Arts department's highly successful National Diploma courses. The College was proud to stage the first ever performance of this unique play. |
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Simon & The Band At The Dress Rehearsal
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A Scene From The Play
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The band were on stage for the entire duration of
the play with the running joke being that one the local lads was
trying to start a band rehearsal. A change of lighting would reveal
the band from behind a voile curtain and the actor would pick up
his stick to start the band. Every time he did this, there would
be a loud commotion of one sort or another which would prevent him
from rehearsing the band.
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The Actor Trying To Rehearse
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A Loud Commotion!!
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| Right at the end of the play when it looked as though he would finally get to do his rehearsal, the "real" conductor (in this case Simon Dobson or Rob Hammett) came on stage, took the baton and banished the actor from the stage!! The band then gave a very Cornish rendition of The Floral Dance. | |||||||||
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Rob & The Band On The Last Night
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The Floral Dance!
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| The play was enjoyed by "full
houses" on both nights. The band were extremely well received
and were a key part of the play. It was great to be involved in such
a professional and well directed event about the St. Austell area.
Very special praise must go to the youngsters of the band who had
to sit very still and quiet on a hot stage for over two hours! (which
they just about managed to do!).
The Youth band are currently working very hard for the West of England Bandsmen's Festival at Bugle on the 16th June 2007. |
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