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12 Jan

ACT Spotlight Winners 2023

We are delighted to announce we had six winners at the ACT Spotlight Awards at the Cresta Court Hotel on 10th November as follows:

Ciarán Glass – ACT Debut Award – William Beech in Goodnight Mister Tom

James Newton – Most Accomplished Youth in an Adult Production – Zachariah in Goodnight Mister Tom

Paddy Darnell-Walsh – Most Original Character Portrayal (Actor) – Mooney in Hangmen

Heather Roberts – Most Original Character Portrayal (Actress) – Bertha/Inner Jane in Jane Eyre

Suzanne Nolan – ACT in Action Certificate (Puppetry) – Sam, the dog in Goodnight Mister Tom

Blackburn Drama Club – Overall Winners for The Season

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners. Deserved recognition for wonderful performances over the last 12+ months.

13 Mar

NODA District 3 Award Winners!

We are delighted to announce we had three winners at the NODA North West District 3 Awards at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel on Saturday 18th Februrary as follows:

Ciarán Glass – Best Youth Performance in an Adult Production for William Beech in Goodnight Mister Tom.

Joanne Shepherd – Best Staging for The Steamie

Suzanne Nolan – The Julie Hopkinson Award for Best Cameo for The Corpse in Loot & Sammy in Goodnight Mister Tom

Congratulations to all the nominees. Deserved recognition for wonderful performances over the last 12+ months.

14 Nov

ACT Spotlight Drama Award Winners!

On Friday night we attended the ACT Spotlight Drama Awards 2021 and we are delighted to announce we came away with 4 awards as follows. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees and thank you to ACT for such a wonderful evening!

Pearce Darnell-Walsh – Society Official of the Year 2021

Joanne Shepherd – Most Challenging Role (Hilary, The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband)

Carolanne Connolly / The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband – Most Accomplished Overall Production for a Comedy

One Man, Two Guv’nors – Gold Award for Outstanding Achievement in Drama

11 Jun

Talking Faces

“TALKING FACES” – A new digital series from BlackburnDrama Club COMING SOON… 🎭

As we won’t be having any on stage performances for the remainder of the year, we are gearing up to kickstart a new series of Lockdown Monologues, in the style of Alan Bennett’s “Talking Heads”, as something to watch for our members and audiences alike.

We have many talented writers in the Club and we are calling out for people to pen a 5-10 minute script telling the story of someone during lockdown. These can be humorous, or dramatic, emotional or satirical. Suzanne Nolan has very kindly offered to “ghost write” any story ideas that people may have but not able to write themselves. Anyone else willing to help Suzanne with this, please let us know! Anyone who would like to write and act/film their piece great, if not please send us your scripts and we can find an actor for you!

Your options are as follows:
1) Write AND record own Talking Faces piece.
2) Write piece but submit for someone else to perform and record.
3) Bullet point ideas for a piece for Suzanne or someone else to write.

If you are solely interested in acting someone’s monologue or writing up the ideas of someone else please let us know!

This is open to everyone, whether you have worked with the BDC before or not! Once we start receiving a few entries we will start to put a schedule together when we can start releasing them for the world to watch! ❤️

18 Mar

BDC Statement

Blackburn Drama Club Statement:

Following the latest government advice, Blackburn Drama Club have been in talks with Blackburn Empire Theatre regarding this week’s production of Amy’s View. Blackburn Empire have confirmed the theatre will now be closed until at least 1st May 2020.

We can therefore confirm this week’s production of Amy’s View has been postponed.

Furthermore, unfortunately we can confirm we have also postponed our Annual General Meeting and May’s production of Death of a Salesman.

We now find ourselves in a difficult situation, financially and are calling on you our devoted and loyal audiences to help.

We are a registered charity and local community theatre company, run totally voluntarily for the local community. Whilst we endeavour to refund any purchased tickets, any donated ticket money for the postponed productions would be gratefully received as we look to recoup our costs.

Finally, stay safe and we look forward to receiving some better news in the future so we can welcome everyone back for our 2020/21 Season.

Blackburn Drama Club Committee

13 Feb

NODA District 3 Awards 2020

On Saturday 8th February, we attended the 2020 District 3 Awards at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel. We are absolutely delighted to announce we received a whopping TEN awards on the evening and had a fabulous night! Congratulations to all the winners and many thanks to District 3 rep Paul Mason for recognising our achievements in 2019. Full list of winners are as follows:

Best Female Comedy Performance – Jackie Green – One Man Two Guvnors
Best Youth in an Adult Production – Louisa Harkness – My Mother Said I Never Should
Best Leading Youth Performer – Louisa Harkness – My Mother Said I Never Should
Best Actress in a Drama – Jenny Hodkinson – My Mother Said I Never Should
Best Actor in a Drama – Dominic Dwyer – The Importance of Being Earnest
Best Choreographer – Zoe Taylor – One Man Two Guvnors
Best Director of a Drama – Elizabeth Holland – My Mother Said I Never Should
Best Drama – My Mother Said I Never Should
The Victor Booth Award – Louisa Harkness
The Special Achievement Award – Blackburn Drama Club
13 Feb

We’ve had a makeover…

We have been having a makeover 👀

Check out the pictures of our rehearsal room refurbishment… what a difference!! 😱

Many thanks to our treasurer Pearce for organising it all, our hardworking committee for hours of prep work, decluttering and furniture moving & the Co-Op Community Fund for a huge chunk of the money towards the upgrades! ❤️

Finally thank you to https://www.facebook.com/JnBLandscapes/ for an excellent job 👌🏽

19 Dec

NODA District 3 Nominations 2019

🎭⭐️We are delighted to announce we have received 24 Nominations for the NODA District 3 Awards! Many thanks to NODA and Paul Mason for this fantastic recognition of our 2019 productions and congratulations to all those nominated. The Awards evening will take place on 8th February, 2020 (nominees will be sent booking information soon). Nominees are listed below: 🎭⭐️

Best Female Comedy Performance – Jan Burrow (Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest)

Best Female Comedy Performance – Jackie Green (Rachel Crabbe in One Man, Two Guv’nors)

Best Male Comedy Performance – Stephen Claxon (Francis Henshall in One Man, Two Guv’nors)

Best Male Comedy Performance – Steven Derbyshire (Kenneth in The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband)

Best Male Comedy Performance – Stephen Claxon (Algernon Moncrief in The Importance of Being Earnest)

Best Supporting Female in a Play – Claire St Pierre (Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest)

Best Supporting Male in a Play – Steven Catterall (Alfie in One Man, Two Guv’nors)

Best Direction of a Play – Clive Stack (The Importance of Being Earnest)

Best Direction of a Play – Clive Stack (One Man, Two Guv’nors)

Best Direction of a Play – Elizabeth Holland (My Mother Said I Never Should)

Best Direction of a Play – Carolanne Connolly (The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband)

Best Youth Performer in an Adult Production – Louisa Rose Harkness(Rosie in My Mother Said I Never Should)

Best Leading Youth Performer (Plays & Musicals) – Louisa Rose Harkness (Rosie in My Mother Said I Never Should)

Best Female Lead in a Play – Joanne Shepherd (Hilary in The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband)

Best Female Lead in a Play – Jenny Hodkinson (Doris in My Mother Said I Never Should)

Best Female Lead in a Play – Siobhán Edge (Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest)

Best Female Lead in a Play – Neely Jillings (Laura in The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband)

Best Male Lead in a Play – Steven Derbyshire (Kenneth in The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband)

Best Male Lead in a Play – Dominic Dwyer (Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest)

Best Choreographer – Zoe Taylor (One Man, Two Guvnors)

Best Play – My Mother Said I Never Should

Best Play – The Importance of Being Earnest

Best Play – One Man, Two Guv’nors

Best Play – The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband

10 Dec

Co-Op Community Fund

We are delighted to announce we have received £1921 from the Co-Op Community Fund!! We are so very grateful for these funds which will go towards the renovation project of our club room (watch this space!). We are thankful to our treasurer, Pearce Darnell-Walsh, for securing this. Below is our Chair Jenny Hodkinson, Secretary Neely Jillings and committee member Alison Smith collecting our cheque from the Livesey Branch Road store in Blackburn

02 Dec

Our Latest Reviews!

We are absolutely delighted with the audience reactions to our last production of THE WOMAN WHO COOKED HER HUSBAND! Please see links below to our NODA, ACT & Lancashire Life Reviews.

https://www.noda.org.uk/show-reports/the-woman-who-cooked-her-husband-1574771469?fbclid=IwAR09wL1l43Wc0mKUGXGPRxmYbopWPcvrG1HDq3PAhu1pkcFXANrOvis0zf4

https://actuk.org/Reviews%202019/blackburn-drama-club—the-woman-who-cooked-her-husband.html?fbclid=IwAR36Wy-fhH0byCS29ToRTBl23RJPBNIf1rr5r9YWgJ2_V0znuuLUuNZQvfs

https://www.lancashirelife.co.uk/out-about/the-woman-who-cooked-her-husband-empire-theatre-blackburn-1-6386939?fbclid=IwAR3J38U7DuuBSXcWWERI7aPFQ_4OvIF-OvN0a-809HONV-NaLrA7nZRWn2o

 

 

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