Well, it's us again. Each time we send out these duplicated but well-intended missives, we imagine that we couldn't pack any more into the next year than we have into the one that's just gone; and each year proves otherwise. So where to start? Well, our theatrical activities have continued apace - watching, directing and performing. Cassie started the new year by going into rehearsals for Charlotte Keatley's My mother said I never should at Richmond Shakespeare Society - a very enjoyable, unusual piece, involving four generations of women in the same family - so she had to play Margaret between the age of 9 sleeping under the piano during the air raids and in her fifties.
Hard work, fairly intense and very satisfying. January also saw a splendid Chimes concert - the group that Cassie has been working with for some years now, producing good-quality concerts to raise money for charity. This took place in St Mary's church, and was a very lovely show, with splendid renditions of the best of both composers.
Selwyn has, in the course of the year, finally resigned from the committee - and chairmanship - of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, with which he has been involved for nearly twenty years.
However, they didn't let him go lightly. He co-ordinated, wrote CD notes for and musically advised on the production of a CD of Sullivan's Kenilworth , which was very successful. Cassie had to get in somewhere - she designed the CD cover. At the end of this concert, Cassie announced that two members of the cast were particularly busy at that time Two of our most loyal Chimes members, we were delighted to attend their wonderful wedding.
Jo - from Chimes - was seconded to St Mary's congregation to play Cecily, and the whole cast was excellent - a good time was had by all, and suitable sums of money raised for church funds.
