Chris Neville-Smith
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Gallery
Yes, the gallery. Does what it says on the time really. Click on any photo for a larger version. Please please please don't try downloading this, enlarging at and printing it out, because that will look horrible. Contact me if you need a high-resolution printer-friendly version.
Our House
Here's a selection of production pictures to enjoy. All production photos taken at the dress rehearsal on Friday 14th November. Click on any photo for a larger image using my exciting new photo gallery tool.
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And here's some older rehearsal photos taken during the rehearsal on the 3rd November.
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Production photos © Wendy Smith, rehearsal photos © Janiece Spence. For high-resolution images suitable for printing, please contact the respective owner. Please note that some of these pictures are cropped section of larger photos, and a higher-resolution version may not always be available.
Improbable Fiction
Here you go. Click on any thumbnail for a larger version.
All pictures © Wendy Smith, taken during the dress rehearsal on the 22nd October (as we always to for full-length productions). Please contact Wendy Smith at DDS if you want print version or high-resolution digital versions, because I don't have copyright on these images.
 "Arnold Hassock (Mike Smith) counting how many people are coming.") |
 "Hazel Geldard as Isla Wolby.") |
 "Ilsa gives Arnold his present.") |
 "Jess Bale (Lesley Anderson) arrives.") |
 "Yvonne Doyle as Grace Sims.") |
 "Brevis Winterton (Alan Godfrey) is already bored.") |
 "Clem (James Tynan) reads his work. Vivvi (Kayleigh Knox) hasn't a clue what's going on.") |
 "'You're a good bloke, you know Arnold ... You deserve better, you really do'") |
 "And suddenly ...") |
 "Kindly Dr. Thomas Goodpiece (aka Brevis) attends to the distressed Ilsa.") |
 "And now a 1930s whodunnit - introducing DCI Jim Rash and DS Fiona Longstaff are on the case.") |
 "And now, Mavis Green (Grace), sister of the deceased - do you think she's the baddie?") |
 "Rex Van Ecks explains alien abductions. Confused? So is Arnold.") |
 "'They've taken over, they can make mistakes. Even in the town hall, the make mistakes.'") |
 "Shifty nephew Dudley works his charms on Mrs. Norris.") |
 "'You want to measure up, Solo?'") |
 "'You think Mr. Hassock might have killed his wife, do you? Why should Mr. Hassock want to kill his wife, Ilsa?'") |
 "I told you she was the baddie.") |
 "Arnold and Dr. Goodpiece discuss their plan with Isla.") |
 "'Then, I noticed Ilsa sit up slightly in her chair, listening intently, as though she alone had heard something, something that had eluded the rest of us.'") |
 "'And so, dear reader, we left the uncle a smiling, contented man, secure in the knowledge that his house was finally purged of hatred, to be filled once again with Christian love.'") |
 "Rhona and Solo arrive with their STJs.") |
 "It's Doblin the Goblin!") |
 "Full cast and crew (L-R): Pete Hagger (Set), Kayleigh Knox (Vivvi), James Tynan (Clem), Tess Hagger (Production Advisor), Elenor Maddison (Props), John Maddison (Set), Lesley Anderson (Jess), Jessica Beard (Props), Mike Smith (Arnold), Chris Neville-Smith (Director), Hazel Geldard (Ilsa), Gordon Lawrie (Sound), Therea Mulkerin (Lights), Yvonne Doyle (Grace), Alan Godfrey (Brevis), Kate Lawrie (Prompt).") |
The First Sign of Madness (Buxton Fringe)
Sadly, I don't have any pictures of the performance itself. It was all hands on deck and we couldn't spare anyone for photos - you'll have to settle for the photos from the 2011 production in Durham. So instead, here are some pictures of us setting this play up this rest of the time, which Nicki and I took between us.
 "Setting up for the first preview at The Empty Shop, Durham.") |
 "This is getting real. My flyers are on the official Fringe desk ...") |
 "And here's Nicki with my poster outside the venue.") |
 "Me inside the entrance to Pauper's Pit.") |
 "Nicki and Me lugging the bench over half of Buxton to the venue. (Huge thanks to Linda Rolland for lending it.") |
 "Holy crap, it's on the blackboard! This is it.") |
 "Me, Alan and Yvonne (Nicki's mum and general dogsbody) relaxing outside Buxton Pavillion halfway through the run.") |
 "Me, Nicki and Alan in the Fringe Club after the run.") |
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
This is the play I directed for Sedgefield Drama Festival in
September 2012. Wasn't intending to actually be in the play I was
directing, but things didn't quite work out the way I originally
planned. Don't worry, I don't go beating up women in real life.
These shots were taken at a dress/technical rehearsal on Monday 10th
September. Slight complication in that the stage where we did the final
rehearsal was a different stage to where we actually performed, so some
of the scenery actually belongs to a completely different play. I'll
leave to you to work out which is which.
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DDS New Writing Festival 2011
Here's some photos from The First
Sign of Madness which I wrote, Alan Godfrey's Plan C which I was in, and Chris
Joby's Crossing the Line
which I wasn't in but I may as well include to complete a set. They
were mostly taken on the dress rehearsals on the 29th September.
Click on any thumbnail image below to see a larger image. Many thanks to Janiece Spence for taking all of these photos. This is a selection of the complete photo collection. For a photo not shown below, or a full-resolution photo for printing, please ask me nicely and I should be able to help.
Starting with Plan C ...
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Moving on to my play, The First Sign of Madness ...
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And finally, Crossing the Line ...
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Copyright (seeing as all websites seem to need this kind of notice
at the bottom of the page) © 2011-2014. I will probably give permission
to
anyone who wants to reproduce any part of this page, but please ask me
first. This is my own personal web page and not affiliated with Durham
Dramatic Society or any other group I've been invovled with.