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Second guest blog is a brilliant debut from Ellen and Marianne from Orange Company

Orange Company 13th November 2011

In Orange we are all very excited about the Christmas production, as we know that most of the other Yew Tree companies are. We will be performing, "The Night Before Christmas," and the best bit is that we get to bring our teddies and wear pajamas for the performance which will be really fun. Everyone has been given either one two or three lines so everyone has an almost equal part to say.

The first thing we did this week was play funky seaweed because the week before it was a member's birthday.  However they didn’t have the chance to play it because we ran out of time. From our experience we found out that the game is a very hazardous game! We found this out when two people got injured in the space of one minute. It was an unlucky game and guess who got hurt... our unlucky birthday member, Ellen MacCourt. But fortunately they both survived and soon recovered. This meant that they were only minor injuries and they were soon playing again.

After that we rehearsed the play twice and did a very good job of it. We also made some minor changes to it. We have now almost finished it and we just need now to rehearse it. We both really enjoy Orange Company. We enjoy it so much that we both joined another company called Sapphire.

Thank you for reading and p.s to all people who are planning on coming, don’t plan anything for the performance day.

By Ellen MacCourt and Marianne Milnes.

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