To our wonderful ADP community. It has been nearly one year since the very first Scripts Aloud where we brought to life five short scripts: ‘Single Yellows’ by Ian Winterton, ‘Caminada’ by Robert Pegg, ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ by Dave Jones, ‘Songs He Left Unsung’ by Kevin McMahon and ‘Killing Yoko’ by Luke Richards. We were delighted that it was a triumph in every sense. All our hard work paid off. It really came together and attracted a full house for our first show. Since August, 2015, our community of writers, directors and actors has grown to a collective of 600 (that we can count!) Our core team of Diana Atkins, Hannah Ellis Ryan and Lisa Connor, now includes: Mark Russell, taking phenomenal photos to help document every step of the ADP journey; Andrew Glassford, our fantastic, helpful and top-notch techie; our dedicated and ever-reliable Door Manager, Andrew Ruddy and, finally our social media wizard, Sophie Coward. From incredibly humble beginnings, it seems ADP is going from strength to strength. The word is spreading, with almost every day an exciting email in the inbox from a writer, director or actor, having heard about the work we do. Always, a wealth of new and brilliant scripts, fresh faces to add to our database and new, exciting possibilities for the future. It is, truly, the highest high and we cannot thank you, our ADP community, enough for making it possible. Because we are just too excited by the brilliant work that is going on, but, also, by the stories we receive every day, both by email and in person, we have decided to launch an ADP Blogosphere, right here on our website. Nearly every day someone writes us a beautiful ‘thank you’ about their ADP experience and we want to share those stories. They are too beautiful and too important to just stay in our inbox, or our minds. These are the very stories that show why ADP has become the success it has – the sense of community, safety and nurturing that Manchester ADP is all about. So, this is our CALL TO ACTION. Please, send us your stories! Send us a blog about:
We can’t wait to hear from you. Hopefully, over time, this will build into a wonderful archive of stories – one that can show those not yet involved, what a beautiful community this truly is.
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Diana Atkins
4/15/2016 04:59:16 am
Just a quick note to everyone to say, do feel free to add your comments on these blogs as they come in. As always, we welcome comments and feedback! You know what we're like!
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Sophie Coward
4/16/2016 01:34:37 am
Hannah and Diana, this is such a wonderful blog post. I can't wait to hear about other peoples stories and experiences of ADP!
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David Dower
4/22/2016 04:50:59 am
I have attended every "Scripts Aloud" night since September and was very fortunate to have my play "The Bespoke Suit" selected for performance in January, the sheer professionalism of everybody concerned really knocked me out, I cannot stress enough how much the feedback from audience, director, and actors helped me, thanks to their comments and encouragement I am now in the final stages of the second act of "Bespoke" and the help and encouragement doesn't stop after scripts night! Craig Sanders has given me sound advice since and as a writer it is so reassuring to know that there is a wealth of talented people all working together to make "Scripts Aloud" happen, I am, and continue to be astonished at the excellence of the plays that are selected, my personal thanks go to, Hannah, Diana, and Lisa, for their help in staging my play and to Craig, Clare Cameron, Simon Naylor, and Matthew Gordon, for their sheer brilliance in bringing it to life, without your help my dream would be just that, a dream!
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Diana Atkins
4/22/2016 07:24:03 am
Aw, thanks David!
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