Welcome to the new website for Castaway Community Theatre, Aberystwyth Arts Centre's adult community drama group. Thanks for visiting, and thanks for your interest in our group. Please feel free to share your feedback and ideas in our online community, or by using the "mail a comment" link in the sidebar!

Croeso i wefan newydd Theatr Gymunedol Castaway, grwp drama cymunedol Canolfan Celfyddydau Aberystwyth ar gyfer oedolion. Diolch am ymweld â'r wefan, ac am ymddiddori yng ngweithgareddau'r grŵp. Y mae croeso i chi rannu eich adborth a'ch syniadau gyda'n cymuned ar-lein, neu drwy ddefnyddio'r ddolen "anfon sylw" yn y golofn ochr.

Byddwn yn ychwanegu mwy o ddeunydd yn Gymraeg maes o law.

Recently I received the sad news of the passing of Derek Bell. Derek was a wonderful man. He was one of the original members of Castaway, making his debut in our first full length production; The Sea in early 1992. Derek gave some splendid performances for Castaway - notably the marvellously eccentric Mustrum Ridcully in Lords and Ladies. Derek will be sadly missed and our thoughts are with Dorothy and her family...
David Blumfield

We are seeking new members who would like to take part in our next production. For more information, see Joining Castaway below.

Castaway's last production was Tony Harrison's Passion, from his interpretation of the Mystery Plays, which ran for three performances in Llanbadarn Church - pictures and details will appear soon.

Our next production is Return to Albion, which opens on Thursday 28th August at 7.45pm in the Arts Centre and runs for 2 nights.

You can book tickets for Castaway productions from the Arts Centre box office in person or over the phone, or alternatively online from their website.

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Note that there may be other messages in private forums - this only shows messages in forums anyone can read! The latest message in all forums was posted on Sunday, February 3rd 2008 at 3:43pm.

Who are Castaway

Castaway was formed in 1991 by Ian Marsh, a graduate of Aberystwyth University's Drama department, and since 1997 has been run by David Blumfield, tutor in drama at the University. Over the years we have staged over 40 productions, from light entertainment for all the family such as Wind in the Willows and our own adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies; to intensely difficult plays like Sarah Kane's Crave and Phaedra's Love and Genet's The Balcony.

In addition, we have been lucky enough to have works written for us by established playwrights such as Lucy Gough and Dic Edwards.

What's on this Website

Here you can:

See a list of all of our past productions, each of which has its own page with cast lists, notes and photographs. Note that a lot of this stuff is incomplete - but we're working on it! If you have any information for us, we'd be glad to get it!
See a huge list of all the people who have ever been in Castaway, and what they've been in. Everyone has their own page, and if any of the information is wrong - or you want to add a biographical note to your own page - just get in touch.
An online community where you can talk about present and past productions, discuss the theatre in general, get in touch with old friends, or just chat about anything.

Joining Castaway

Castaway is run as an Arts Centre course, and can be booked through the Arts Centre at the start of each season. We run three shows a year:

The spring show rehearses from January to March
The summer show rehearses from June to August
The spring show rehearses from October to December

We're about to start work on Return to Albion, our new production, so we're accepting new members! If you want to take part, please buy a ticket for Castaway Community Theatre Adult Drama Course from the Arts Centre box office, and turn up to our first rehearsal session on Monday 2nd June at 7pm in the Arts Centre Studio . You'll need to be available for the regular weekly rehearsals on Mondays at 7pm, and also for quite a few other nights during the last few weeks of rehearsal. More details are available here on the Arts Centre website.

All are welcome of any age and any level of ability - the vast majority of us have no prior stage experience, so we're open to any level of ability. There's no audition process either - if you join, you'll be on stage in the production; but if you're not too confident you can have as few lines as you wish. Our director, Dave Blumfield, is a tutor in the Department of Film, Theatre and TV Studies, and teaches people how to act as his day job as well, so you will be in good and experienced hands.

If you have any queries, don't hesitate to contact us via the "mail the managers" button at the top of the sidebar on the left hand side.

Notes

This web site is an independent website designed and operated by members of Castaway Community Theatre. It is not officially affiliated in any way with Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

information about members

We do not keep any information about members which is not already in the public domain. The only information we keep is:

names of past members (no contact details are kept)
which productions they have taken part in
which roles they played or company functions they performed

Any additional information, such as biographical data, is provided by and/or cleared by the individual member in question under the understanding that the information will be made public.