BINGO DRAGON THEATRE CO.


Much Ado & What Comes Next

August 8, 2012
So, that was Much Ado About Nothing...

Without a doubt, our most successful show to date. We had a great time, our audiences enjoyed themselves, and we managed to sell all of our tickets too. Bonanza! We've even got a rather flashy DVD of this one, filmed and produced by the brilliant Charlotte Forsdick (@cforsdick on twitter), and we'll be making that available to our more maniac fans in the next couple of weeks.

So, what's next for BDTC? Well, as always, big plans. We're beginning to look into the possibility of a series of workshops digging around in some of our favourite Shakespeare plays, and with a fair wind these will get started properly some time in the new year. It's a hugely exciting prospect for us - a chance for us to share what we know, learn what you know, and have a cracking time doing it. Assuming we can put something together that goes beyond playing Ka-Bish Ka-Boo for four hours, which is by no means guaranteed.

But first! First comes the next show - and not before time. Having my Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays back has been horrible, frankly, and I think I speak for most of the company when I say that time off is rubbish. So we're getting back to it...

Twelfth Night is next. Plans are afoot, and over the next couple of weeks we'll start organising dates, venues, and (most excitingly of all, at this stage) AUDITIONS. I've spent the last week or so scribbling frantically in my new Twelfth Night notebook, and the barest of bones are taking shape in my head. It's going to be enormous fun.

The most important thing now is to keep a weather eye open for audition details. We'll have them up on the website as soon as possible, and then we'll rustle up a colourful poster to stick up wherever we can find a flat surface. Keep watching those flat surfaces, you lot.

Twelfth Night. A big galloping boozy Christmas show from Bingo Dragon. Hurrah!

 - Paul S.
 

We Ask You: BDTC. Programmes

June 21, 2012
Currently BDTC. are in the middle of putting together the final phase marketing material for Much Ado About Nothing. Mostly, this involves writing on pictures of people cuddling / slapping each other in the face with cake from Tesco (BDTC. photoshoots are always good fun). It also means writing marketing blurbs & building a programme.

I love a programme. I think most theatregoers do. As a teenager, I collected dozens of RSC programmes & I have some very fond memories of sitting in a flatmate's...
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Why?

May 24, 2012
It's an anniversary year!

This explains a great deal. Open Stages, which BDTC were lucky enough to be a part of. The World Shakespeare Festival. All sorts of WS based merry-making. I couldn't tell you which anniversary, but I imagine it's some sort of multi-centenary. Four hundred? Does that sound about right?

This year, for a variety of reasons, I've found myself thinking a great deal about Shakespeare. About drama in general, about voice, about verse & speech, but mostly about Shakespeare. I'...
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING AUDITIONS

February 22, 2012
The BDTC team would like to thank all who came to see Merchant of Venice.
Again, it was a success and as such we will be rolling out the next production.

Much Ado About Nothing, which will be taking place in July.

As usual BDTC are keen on finding and introducing new performers, even those without experience in working with Shakespeare.
So if you think you'd like a crack at the whip then do come down to our open audition day.

It's being held on Sunday the 11th of March and will be at the The Du...
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A BRAND NEW SHOW: AUDITIONS

November 5, 2011
Firstly, thank you to everyone involved with Richard III and to all the lovely people who came to see it in action and made it so successful.
It's taken us a little while to recover ourselves and finally get rid of the huge hospital gurney, but we are surfacing once more.

We've taken some time to deliberate over our next production and we're now ready to announce that we'll be performing 'The Merchant of Venice', in February with the Dukes DT3 venue.

Now here's your chance to get involved in ...
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The Week of the King

September 16, 2011
I'm in a dressing gown, I'm half awake, & I'm listening to some David Bowie to get myself in the mood.

Tonight's the night.

RICHARD III is finally here, after weeks & weeks of blistering hard work. Richard & Clarence are currently sitting on my sofa, arguing about Chinese food & fruit loaf. Anne has popped to the shop for said fruit loaf. Buckingham, who originally demanded the fruit loaf, is upstairs performing last minute beard maintenance. Across Lancaster, the rest of the cast are assemblin...
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Tickets are GO!

August 19, 2011
As of right now, Richard III tickets are available from the Dukes' box office. So now, that day in September which you've kept resolutely free can finally be filled in.
So, here's how to get them. You can phone the Dukes on 01524 598 500. You can email the Dukes, at tickets@dukes-lancaster.org. You should also be able to order them direct from the website, here. So there you are - time's a-wasting.

Finally, a spot of mildly undignified begging. Richard III is going to be a stonking show. It's h...
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Iain Black: Richard

August 16, 2011
Three times a week, a disparate bunch of young folk bring themselves together in a large, stiflingly hot room above a pub and muck around with one of Shakespeare’s best. I say muck around, it’s more like furnishing 16th century language with strawberries, balloons and, wherever possible, death.  This is Richard III – Bingo Dragon style.

This is the first of hopefully dozens of blogs by various cast members, declaiming in frightening detail our rehearsal process.  Our production is just u...
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What's New 07/08/2011

August 7, 2011
The At Work page is now live, and peppered with rehearsal photographs from RICHARD III. Have a look!

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What's New 04/08/11

August 4, 2011
Updates to the Hamlet showpage.

New material on The Company page.

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