Mumford Theatre launches play reading club
September saw the start of the Mumford Theatre's play reading club Scene & Heard, with the first of the fortnightly meetings taking place on Wednesday 26.
The idea for the club came from the theatre staff's strategy planning day in the summer where Production Manager Leigh Stephenson and Box Office and Marketing Administrator Verity Sanderson committed to running the club for interested students.
The club holds the same premise as a book club: members read the same play between meetings and get together to discuss their ideas. As plays are read rather than books this can involve discussions on a huge array of ideas from set design to casting, lighting to directing, and costume to marketing the show!
The first meeting was a huge success with 10 students attending, bringing their enthusiasm for reading, plays and the stage, their knowledge from different areas of study across the university and their different experiences of theatre.
Emily Luthentun, a 2nd year Drama student, said: "It's great. You get to see plays from multiple angles and can read them without the pressure of having to study for your grades."
Leigh and Verity also hope to organise theatre trips for members of the group to see local productions.
Scene & Heard will run fortnightly on Wednesdays in LAB 028 at 5.30pm and is open to all students at Anglia Ruskin University.
The idea for the club came from the theatre staff's strategy planning day in the summer where Production Manager Leigh Stephenson and Box Office and Marketing Administrator Verity Sanderson committed to running the club for interested students.
The club holds the same premise as a book club: members read the same play between meetings and get together to discuss their ideas. As plays are read rather than books this can involve discussions on a huge array of ideas from set design to casting, lighting to directing, and costume to marketing the show!
The first meeting was a huge success with 10 students attending, bringing their enthusiasm for reading, plays and the stage, their knowledge from different areas of study across the university and their different experiences of theatre.
Emily Luthentun, a 2nd year Drama student, said: "It's great. You get to see plays from multiple angles and can read them without the pressure of having to study for your grades."
Leigh and Verity also hope to organise theatre trips for members of the group to see local productions.
Scene & Heard will run fortnightly on Wednesdays in LAB 028 at 5.30pm and is open to all students at Anglia Ruskin University.
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