News
- C.A.D.S.
Optima, May 14th 2005A new drama group has just been established in Chorleywood. Known as C.A.D.S., Chorleywood Amateur Dramatic Society is embarking on its first production on Saturday 21st May.
The company is staging extracts from Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn, at the Memorial Hall Chorleywood. Curtain up for the matinee is 2:30pm, with an evening performance time of 7:30 for curtain up at 8:00. Joyce Grenfell monologues will also be performed at both performances.
The evening performance includes live jazz (4 piece band) and nibbles in the interval.
The day promises to be great fun for all involved – cast, crew and audience. The company has worked enthusiastically and tirelessly in advance of this exciting debut. The group intends to focus on comedy and aims to put on a fill play before the end of the year…watch this space.
- Amateur Society Launched
Watford Observer, May 13th 2005Since the demise of the Chorleywood Players eight years ago, the area’s wealth of artistic talent has gone unnoticed. But with the recent formation of the Chorleywood Amateur Dramatics Society (CADS), the creative output of the village looks set to be on the increase.
With the curtain due to rise on their first performance, extracts from Alan Ayckbourn’s Confusions on Saturday, May 21, the group, who meet weekly at the Chorleywood Scout Hut, are hard at work rehearsing and completing the show’s set and costumes.
According to CADS co-founder Richard Berman, it didn’t take long for his idea to germinate into an up-and-running society. He said: “After talking about it to my wife, I realised that with all the young talent in the village at the moment it was just a matter of getting people involved.
Once I’d enlisted the help of my friend, Vanessa Harker, who has great organisational skills and loads of marketing experience, it all started to come together.” Following a letterbox drop in the village, initial response was very good, with about 30 people turning up on the group’s first night.
Richard said: “We’ve got great carpenters working on the set, established playwrights and lots of experienced actors. The biggest challenge was getting enough men involved. But we had a fair response and now are weighed about 40/60 women to men members.
” Firmly rooted at the centre of the community, CADS is, according to Richard already providing an important space for local people to meet. He said: “Previously, it was hard to get to know people in the village, as a lot of the men only got to other couples through their wives. But CADS is really opening things up. It’s becoming quite a social event.”