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faceman

I know this has been asked before but the responses havent really answered my question.

Im looking for an adult drama group to join (im 30), preferrably south side. I did some acting/drama many years ago and would like to get back into it. Im not interested in doing classes as ive done them before. Just looking for a group of people who put on amateur performances etc. Purely theatrical drama groups.

Can anyone recommend any groups?
Thanks!

Tomthepost

I'm looking for the same. If you hear anything let me know.
Its fairly difficult to find any.

Esmereldina

I'd also be interested in this, so let me know if you find anything...
If enough people post in this thread, you could even set up your own one

Tomthepost

Now there is an idea;)

johnnyrotten123

I'm in! what's that four of us? Enough for a production of Juno and the Paycock - bags being Joxer

Tomthepost

I would put the wig on an wear the tights only im a fairly hairy type of animal and I reckon the waxing might be a bit painful.
Begs Mr Nugent, the only one with a few bob in his back pocket

MysticalSoul

Heya,

I have just started some drama - the website is http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4837641949, was on for the past 2 weeks, and the next workshop is 10th December.

After Christmas it is envisaged that it will be on weekly in Dance House on Foley Street in town. She has great plans, and is hoping to have a performance ready for next year's Fringe.

faceman

with respect, it looks a bit pretentious to an outsider. What does she do?

MysticalSoul

Is improvisation based.

The first week we did a trust guiding exercise, which was brill. Also, move as if we were feeling certain emotions ie happy, sad, mad etc, and also found our own character from newspaper/magazine clippings (as in a general sense), and then paired off and developed a scene together.

The second week, we moved as we felt we would move to certain types of music, an exercise of mirroring each other in pairs, also, an interview scenario of interviewer, interviewee and a third person acting as a distraction. Is hard to explain, I think, you really need to be there.

faceman

ah right, it sounds more like classes. Would be good for some people who havent tried before.

athtrasna

Surely the obvious place to start is the Drama League of Ireland www.dli.ie ?

emc2

OP any luck in your search? I am interested in the same but haven't had much luck finding anything.

faceman

emc2 wrote: »

OP any luck in your search? I am interested in the same but haven't had much luck finding anything.

yep i found a group on the southside, drop me a pm if you are still lookin.

DeVore

I'm interested in acting too, if anyone here knows a group in the city centre area can they let me know? (either here or in PM, thanks!)

Much appreciated!

DeV.

Agent Smith

i would also be interested. located in the city/southside.

Esmereldina

agent smith wrote: »

i would also be interested. located in the city/southside.

Any takers for starting our own drama group?

faceman

Now thats a good idea. Would we have enough of us? Id be up for that

Esmereldina

faceman wrote: »

Now thats a good idea. Would we have enough of us? Id be up for that

yay... one victim already
How about anyone who is interested replies to this thread first, so we can see how many would be up for it (or send me a pm). Even if we got a few people here, it might be enough to start off. Once there were a few of us, we could try to spread the word through other channels to get a bigger group going.
Let the (melo)dramatics begin!

brightspark

Whether you are looking for a group to join or are planning on forming your own group; you should contact the DLI


01 296 9343

http://www.dli.ie

(or even call into their office in the Mill Theatre, Dundrum).


They used to have an advice pack for new groups, I'm sure they will send you one if you ask.

(feel free to PM me if you like, although I live too far from Dublin to actually join your group I have a lot of experience in running a group having been an active member of my local group for over 15yrs)

Esmereldina

brightspark wrote: »

Whether you are looking for a group to join or are planning on forming your own group; you should contact the DLI


01 296 9343

http://www.dli.ie

(or even call into their office in the Mill Theatre, Dundrum).


They used to have an advice pack for new groups, I'm sure they will send you one if you ask.

(feel free to PM me if you like, although I live too far from Dublin to actually join your group I have a lot of experience in running a group having been an active member of my local group for over 15yrs)

Thanks Brightspark, I'll do that. Didn't realise they had offices in Dundrum...

If we ever get to the stage where we are actually starting our own group, I might PM you for some more advice!

Esmereldina

Well so far there are 3 of us interested in forming our own group... I think the best thing to do is to leave this thread here for a while and hope that some more people decide that they really want to rediscover tehir inner drama queens!

Hopefully if we get a few more people interested, we can see about meeting up and getting started. I'll also drop into the DLI in Dundrum pretty soon and see what advice they have to offer.

faceman

funny, i was going to post in this thread today but emereldina beat me to it. Why dont we arrange a meet up and see who turns up and take it from there. Even if we dont get enough people we can discuss joining a group together?

im away for 2 weeks from tomorrow but anytime after that is cool for me.

Esmereldina

faceman wrote: »

funny, i was going to post in this thread today but emereldina beat me to it. Why dont we arrange a meet up and see who turns up and take it from there. Even if we dont get enough people we can discuss joining a group together?

im away for 2 weeks from tomorrow but anytime after that is cool for me.

Ok, how about meeting up Thursday May 22* (if my calculations are correct and faceman is back by then ), maybe 7 pm. We could meet up for a coffee somewhere central and at least see if we can get things going by meeting up in real life for a start!

Anyone interested in going post in this thread:) I thought I may as well throw a date and time out there just to get things started, but if you want to come and can't make that day, let me know and I'm sure we can rearrange things... at this stage I don't think it's likely we'll have so many people going that we can't please everyone!!!

* I just realised that I had neglected to change my calendar from April to May when I posted this yesterday... the date I meant to write was May 22, not 17...

Livee

hi I'm up for it also, I've been looking for something like this for a while. I'm city centre based, but pretty flexible.

liv

jesslg

I'm 24, Aussie and recently moved over here on a working holiday. Would love to join an amateur theatre group, even more so one that is City-Southside based.

May 22nd at 7pm sounds great - where abouts will we be meeting??

Cheers
Jess

DeVore

I'm also up for that meet. I'd additionally like to write something too as I've a serious interest in writing.

DeV.

faceman

Any chance of a reschedule to after the 22nd please? I will be back from China then.

Esmereldina

faceman wrote: »

Any chance of a reschedule to after the 22nd please? I will be back from China then.

Since faceman won't be back for Thursday week, how about we meet the following Tuesday? (May 27). Let me know if you want to come but can't make it that day... I'm sure we can find a day to suit everyone. Hope to see you all then!

faceman

Sounds good to me

jesslg

Heya,

This day and time suits me, just let me know when and where.

Sounds exciting

Blue Soul

I'm a writer that's interested in joining a drama group so keep me in the loop!

Esmereldina

Blue Soul wrote: »

I'm a writer that's interested in joining a drama group so keep me in the loop!

Great, I'll add you to my list. We are meeting next Tuesday evening... will be in touch about exact time and venue soon, hope to see you there!

Esmereldina

DeVore wrote: »

I'm also up for that meet. I'd additionally like to write something too as I've a serious interest in writing.

DeV.

Hmmm, this does sounds interesting Well, bring all your ideas along next Tuesday... all suggestions are welcome! It's great to see we have a couple of writers interested too, looking forward to meeting you all next week!

Esmereldina

Ok, so how about we meet upstairs at 7pm in the Lord Edward pub in Christchurch... it's a fairly quiet spot, so we should be able to plot our evil dramatic plans quite nicely from there Hope that's ok for everyone, or if you have better suggestions for venues, let me know.
I'll pop into the Mill Theatre in Dundrum tomorrow to see if there can offer us any wisdom for starting off our group. Please bring any ideas/suggestions/wisdom that you may have with you too!

Looking forward to seeing you all on Tuesday

faceman

Just so we have idea on how many to expect, can anyone coming along please confirm?

Btw, thanks Niamh Esmereldina for organising.

Blue Soul

Hi Faceman, I've confirmed with Niamh. See you there

faceman

just some feedback for those of you who couldnt make it.

Myself, Blue Soul, Esmereldina and DeVore met last night to kick things off. We had some discussion around our interest in performing arts and what we'd like to do. It was great to meet and discuss our backgrounds, likes and dislikes.

We are going to meet fortnightly from now on, every second Thursday starting from Thursday 5th June, venue to be confirmed.

If anyone is worried about not having enough experience or too much experience, then dont be afraid! We all have mixed backgrounds and mixed levels of experience! None of us are professional actors (yet!)

The more people we can get on board the better!

Seeing as this thread was stickied and it has evolved since the first post, would it be possible to have it tidyied up or even a new thread created and stickied with the groups details etc?

Any thoughts?

faceman

Hello all, whats the plan for tomorrow night?

Blue Soul

Hi Faceman, as before, I'm free around 8ish to meet. We're still waiting on confirmation of a venue?

Esmereldina

Blue Soul wrote: »

Hi Faceman, as before, I'm free around 8ish to meet. We're still waiting on confirmation of a venue?

Yep I'm still up for this tomorrow too, but where to meet, that is the question...:p

Doozie

Hi,

Did you guys decide on a venue for tonight? I wouldn't mind getting involved but I wont be free till after 9.

dublindave20

I would'nt mind coming along either!!!

Esmereldina

Quick update: We had our second meeting yesterday, and the next one will be on July 3rd. We are taking a bit of a longer break this time, so anyone who is interested in joining, please do come along... you have lots of notice to keep the date free now! We are hoping to start some drama workshops at the next meeting too, so venue is not confirmed yet (we are hoping to sort out some rehearsal space). Everyone who came along to the first one, please come along again so we can keep this going!

dublindave20

Ok, so what sort of people are involved?
I am an actor, are there writers directors..etc involved?
How often were You talking about staging a play.. etc?

Doozie

Hey, apologies for missing the meeting, I didn't get the venue in time but I'll be there on July 3rd. I've dabbled in most aspects of amateur drama, ie. acting, set design, costume, stage managing etc so I'll be happy to just be involved. (I'm also quite good at clapping loudly from the back of a theatre)

Esmereldina

dublindave20 wrote: »

Ok, so what sort of people are involved?
I am an actor, are there writers directors..etc involved?
How often were You talking about staging a play.. etc?

We have really just started up but so far there are some writers and actors involved. More actors are definitely welcome. We are trying to sort out a rehearsal space at the moment, so we hadn't gotten as far as deciding how often we would stage a play! Since we are still in the initial stages of getting organised as a group, we are very much open to ideas about direction and organisation... we don't have any fixed plans as yet. Come along next time in you are interested in getting involved in any way!

Hey, apologies for missing the meeting, I didn't get the venue in time but I'll be there on July 3rd. I've dabbled in most aspects of amateur drama, ie. acting, set design, costume, stage managing etc so I'll be happy to just be involved. (I'm also quite good at clapping loudly from the back of a theatre)

Great, see you next month so

Esmereldina

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BernietheKat

I don’t know much about theatre or about performing arts but I do know that this guy would be class at both of them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv0M70YCm6Y

louise santry

Oakwood Drama Group from Finglas is always open to new members!!!
Check us out on www.bebo.com/oakwoodD
If anyone is interested in joining just send us a message on the bebo page and we'll get back to you - promise!!
Auditions underway for our next production - Funny Money! It very good. In particular we are looking for a lady to fill one of the roles....
Hope to see from some of you soon!!

Louise:)

faceman

Hi all, the Boards Drama Group is always looking for new people to get on board to either be performers or help behind the scenes.

With regard to production and behind the scenes people, students or people looking for experience for their CV etc, may find it useful to get involved.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1089

faceman

Quick update on the Boards Drama Group, we have christened ourselves "No Drama Theatre Company"!

We are always looking for new people, be you veterans or newbies or just curious!

We are in the early stages of preparing for a production so if you want to get involved at any level. no time like the present to get involved be it on teh performing or technical side!