MEMBERS' PRODUCTIONS

Many of our members present their own productions for charitable causes. Our new website enables us to celebrate this important and generous aspect of members' work. Members are warmly encouraged to send details and photographs for inclusion on this page. 

STATIONED

A Lenten Meditation conceived and written by Terence Cooling and Nicholas Ward.

In Lent 2009 CaAPA Members Terry Cooling and Nick Ward were very keen to present a "New Working" of The Stations of the Cross in a way which would serve both the Association and the wider Community of Corpus Christi Parish.

So how can you re-tell a story that everyone knows backwards, forwards, inside out and upside down in a new and transformational way?

The simple answer is, of course, that you can't. The story will always be exciting and transformational because of its very nature.

This presentation was a renewal of a simple promise that holds something for all of us, whether devoutly religious, devoutly secular or anything in between.

The young protagonist, who reluctantly finds himself "Stationed", is not a Christian and does not become one, yet he is renewed by the very essence of Christ's humanity - a humanity common to us all.

The work was well attended and very warmly received , and proved an absorbing and worthwhile undertaking.

Dramatis Personae

YESHU - Nicholas Ward
PRIEST - Terence Cooling
PILATE - Robin Marchal
MOTHER MARY - Ingrid Evans
SIMON - Matthew Pinckney
VERONICA - Laura Olliffe
DAUGHTERS of JERUSALEM - Ingrid Evans and Laura Olliffe
NARRATOR - Father Christopher Vipers
PILATE'S ATTENDANTS & GUARDS
Terry Wheeler
Altar Servers and Parishioners of Corpus Christi

Music - If it Be Your Will by Leonard Cohen
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Directed by Terence Cooling and Nicholas Ward

The picture on the right is from Dympna LeRasle's show, Cool Britannia, at the CAA.  The show was a fundraiser for a recent diocesan pilgrimage. 

CaAPA member, Martin O'Brien, having worked with other CaAPA (CSG) members putting on their own productions, founded tenten theatre in 2006. tenten is an independent professional company, specialising in Theatre in Education. 

Click on the image on the right for the tenten theatre website.

This page features photographs, programmes and reviews of various tentenproductions in which CaAPA members have participated as actors or directors. 

The 2007 production of David Gooderson's play, Kolbe's Gift, toured fifteen churches and schools in London and Essex. 

The action is based on the death of St Maximilian Kolbe at Auschwitz, a story of hope, suffering, sacrifice and the love of God.  As a group of men await an agonising death by starvation in an underground bunker, Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest, offers to take the place of one of th victims, saving the life of Franek, a Polish sergeant. 

Easter Tales, first produced for BBC Television in 2001, is a series of plays set in an asylum, their characters recognisable from figures at the fringes of the Gospel who encountered Christ but, in some way, missed their respective opportunities with him:  the Rich Man, the Servant Girl, the Centurion, Pilate's Wife, the Widow and the Good Thief. 

This Lent 2006 tour took in more than thirty churches and schools in Greater London and Essex, and included performances in Feltham Young Offenders' Prison and Wormwood Scrubs. 

Later in 2006, tentenproductions presented 167 Hours, by tenten's Artistic Director Martin O'Brien. 

The play was written for people in their 20s and 30s, dealing with current issues they may have to face in their lives:  binge-drinking, drugs, extramarital sex and abortion.