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	During the last few months two members of Longsdon Amateur Dramatic Society took taking leading roles in Fringe productions at the Edinburgh Festival. They were Glen Naden, last year awarded Best Actor (NSDA) and Ben Sillitoe awarded Best Newcomer, Staffs Moorlands Arts Awards 2000 for the leading role in LADS production of Adrian Mole. Glen opened in The Rec Theatre Co Ltd production "Don Juan" at the Buxton Fringe Festival. This one man show, which last year gained a Fringe Drama Award, traces Don Juan's exploits from virgin to libertine through a litany of passionate encounters (lust feeding the quest for love) and eventual violent confrontation with his mother's murder. Throughout August Glen will be performed "Don Juan" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in conjunction with a two-hander with exciting twists and turns called "Haunted" which is a tale of the unexpected. Ben is currently reading maths at Nottingham University and is a prominent member of the University Drama Group which has a membership of over 400 performing at least 16 plays each academic year. The group are regular visitors to the Edinburgh Festival where they promote their work under the title "Mouse on the Stair". This year they will travelled north for the month of August with four productions, one of which is a new play by an up and coming writer, Peter Bridge, entitled "Call of a Stranger". In this play Ben has been cast in the leading role of Mac, a charismatic figure with the power to manipulate, causing others to question their philosophy and radically change their way of life. This is a multilayered play, which is essentially a black comedy but packed with food for thought. For more information about Glen's work with REC Theatre and Ben's "Mouse on the Stair" venture please visit their respective websites. www.rectheatre.com and www.mouseonthestair.co.uk LADS are extremely proud of them both and wish them well.
11th May 2005	Workshop and Play Reading at Longsdon Memorial Hall on Friday 20th May 2005 at 8.00pm based on Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. The adaptation features many varied characters in this adult play. LADS extend a warm welcome to anyone, 16 or over, who wish to come along and have a go and refreshments will be provided. There is no obligation to join LADS so come along for a fun evening. For more details please telephone 01782 503969
9th May 2005	LADS to perform Love, Lust, Lies and Loneliness as part of Leek Arts Festival 2005. Click here for further details.
16th March 2005	Table Manners opens at Longsdon Memorial Hall
11th March 2005	LADS named Arts Group of the Year in the Staffordshire Moorlands District Council combined arts and sports awards. Click here for more information.
9th March 2005	"LADS back and playing it for laughs" full page colour feature in the week section of the Leek Post and Times.
2nd March 2005	"Ayckbourn classic presentation of Table Manners" Clubs and societies feature in Your Leek Paper
25th February 2005	"Manners makes it two out of three" Alan Cookman writes about the LADS production of Table Manners in The Sentinel
23rd February 2005	"Best of Ayckbourn coming to the Memorial Hall soon" LADS Table Manners feature in Your Leek Paper
23rd February 2005	"Alan Ayckbourn on March theatrical menu" LADS Table Manners appears in the week feature in Leek Post and Times
27th January 2005	LADS set to appear in Leek Arts Festival - see Leek Arts Festival Link for more details
26th January 2005	"All set for Ayckbourn" LADS appear in the week feature in the Leek Post and Times
16th January 2005	The Society's next production will be Table Manners by Alan Ayckbourn and will take place from the 16th to the 19th March 2005. Further details will posted here.
15th January 2005	Early Photographs added to the Past Productions Pages, these include photographs from some of the L.A.D.S. early plays.
22nd December 2004	Local Newspaper, the Leek Post and Times, features the LADS in their "as time goes by" column. LADS are preparing to celebrate their 60th Anniversary in 2005. The column outlines the history of the LADS together with some old photographs from some productions and a programme from 1947.