Monday 25 August 2014

Pantomime

A funny thing happened on the way to the garden.......

Last year Darren and I decided that doing a pantomime in the garden would be a golly good idea. At first it was like a big joke but when we thought about it, the idea seemed not so crazy.

What a great way to show-case the garden and to herald colour and diversity in the talents of our community. Why not do something a bit out there that may bring a bit of joy to people? Why not take the risk? Why not us?

It's all a bit crazy because Darren and myself have never been in a pantomime. Although I have been in a few plays and skits over the years I've never fully pursued drama in the way that I would have liked, therefore feeling quite unqualified for this adventure.

So it went like this, we got serious, filled out an application for sponsorship from council and with no guarantee of getting any money we decided to book a date in and commenced with organising a panto.

What an adventure and we didn't even have a script!! What are we doing???

As our Saturday panto meetings screamed along, we have gathered a script writer, Amanda Taylor; who took our ideas and wrote something cool, Lee Rickwood who has done a lot of hard work along the way for us and Aileen Gleeson, who really does take the best minutes.

What has amazed me about this journey is how some people say that they are not creative but when it counts comes up with brilliance, such as Narelle Pearce who came up with our Let it Go parody "Let it Grow".

By the way, if you want to be a part of the flash mob scene we have created an event on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/events/1462247340709770/

Well the good news is, that we have received sponsorship for our panto from the Shellharbour City Council and we are stoked.

There have been so many great people who have been involved and this so far has been fun






How good was this meeting........fancy pizzas

this part was fun because we got to play dress ups with the Gullibles costumes. 

And then how really cool, we got to pitch our panto at the very first Illawarra soup night at Warilla 

this is how Darren went
We didn't get the cash but it didn't matter as it was such a great night. If you get an opportunity to go to one of these I highly recommend it 

For more photo's of the soup night check out Paul Pennell Photography 

Then the coolest thing happened.....oh yeah, we got cheque from the Mayor


Then after all of that fun and adventure we finally got to read the script

Costumes are being created and friendships as well. This truly is one awesome adventure so far.
There is still time to put your hand up and be involved. We are not experts and may seem out of our depth but we decided to just give it a go and I am glad we did.