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The LSC has been a favourite drama company of
thousands of Lincoln theatre-goers for over ten years. In November
2002 the LSC staged their thirtieth production. Phil Mead, one of
the company's founder members, said that, whilst a number of long-serving
performers were still keenly participating in every show, it was
again time for the group to encourage new, and possibly younger,
people to engage in performances of the works of the world's greatest
playwright. Phil will co-direct the LSC's summer production of Romeo
and Juliet, and it is for that most popular of plays that the company
is seeking new blood. The eponymous teenage lovers are two of the
youngest leading parts in the whole of Shakespeare's many plays
and there could be opportunities for young newcomers to aspire to
these roles. There will be no prepared speeches or formal auditions
at the LSC's Open Day, which will be an enjoyable, no-pressure,
sharing of stage games, improvisation, and group activity such as
the instant staging of well-known fairy tales. In addition to welcoming
new performers, the LSC particularly encourages those with a bent
towards producing to come to the workshop. In this regard, Lincoln
University students on the Media Studies course may welcome the
opportunity to help to produce Romeo and Juliet in the late spring
and summer months, perhaps the first of many activities to put on
a graduate's cv. It will be business as usual for the LSC straight
after the workshop - the spring production will be 'The Tempest',
to be directed by Chas Rodgers with his flair for atmospherics and
cunning lighting effects. This wonderful and moving play will be
staged in bleakest March in a new venue, the excellent Terry O'Toole
theatre in North Kesteven.
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