Montserrat Theathre Company LTD Is Ready To Go
Montserrat Theathre Company LTD Is Ready To Go
The Montserrat Theatre Company Ltd. (MTCL) under the presidency and leadership of Dr. Eddie Donaghue, a Montserratian residing for many years in St. Thomas, has been one of the recipients or awardees under the current DFID sponsored Tourism Challenge Fund. The MTCL has jumped out ahead almost immediately and sent their Artistic Director Marc Fellnererez and Marketing Director Anat Erez Fellner to Montserrat to move their activities into action.
The couple is married to each other, but in a press interview with the local media, radio, television and press, told that they came to familiarise themselves with the island and its people, the Cultural Centre and other facilities in preparation for this summer’s youth theatre program to take place on the island of Montserrat.
Marc a gave a detailed outline of the program which will life to the MTCL theatre program led by himself and his wife Anat. The summer theatre program on Montserrat will include three sessions each lasting 4 weeks running from June through August and will work in conjunction with the Montserrat Calabash Festival in July.
At the camp which will draw children from all over the world, they will learn the elements of theatre as well as delve into the culture of Montserrat and the Caribbean through various activities including learning to play steel pan.
Each session will produce a final performance to be presented at the cultural centre.
He expanded further: “…the camp is the idea that it will expose children of the world to this amazing island of Montserrat. The second group will overlap the first group by one by one week and it will be designed for students that from the islands, in and around the Caribbean. They will focus on play writing and the basics of theatre through scene work, monologue, singing, dancing dance movements as well as the exploration of the work that goes on behind the scenes.”
Centre As to whether the project is a business or a school type project. “…what we plan is just to have this as a beginning as a first step then to have a company a theatre company on Montserrat that functions year round… We hope that this will become a self sufficient company that can maintain year after year and ultimately become a year round endeavour, Marc responded.”
The couple spoke ecstatically about the Cultural Centre in absolute terms. “…Absolutely we went on a tour of that space and it is cutting edge they have projector, they have moving lights, an incredible grid…the space is ready to perform. I think the improvement that will need to come will need to be in parking and outside of the space but the space inside look really good. I think it’s ready to go it is up and running.”
Dr. Donoghue the architect of the project keeps his fingers on the pulse of activity and development in Montserrat and he is very excited about it. He had called to announce his acceptance and pleasure at receiving the grant to do what he considers to be a very forward moving project, and said they would waste no time.
Source: www.themontserratreporter.com
