A blog from Joanna and Alice about the Writers Festival...
On Wednesday it was the Writers’ Festival which marked the end of Drury Lane Library which is soon to close. Drury Lane is special to Yew Tree because it’s where they held their first youth theatre sessions. There were several instalments created by the writers. One of which was a timeline explaining a bit about the library’s history and the writers had created poems for the different chapters along the timeline. The thing we talked about afterwards was how much we hadn’t known about a building we’d used so much. The timeline said the library had won The Winston Churchill award for National Library Week in 1967 which surprised us because it’s not seen prestigious anymore which is a shame. As we were writing this we realised that as ever we had had exactly the same thought process (similar to when we went to Ikea and bought all the same things for the drama schools we’re going to at different ends of the country,) but anyway we looked around the building and there were so many signs of how grand it used to be. You could see where plaques had been above the bookshelves and the high ceilings and things that used to be polished but aren’t anymore. And it made us feel a bit sad. On a happier note!... people chose poems from the time line to read out. The first poem on the timeline was Gemma’s which was about how aware we are of what’s there now and don’t think about what came before or after the end and the last one was Sarah’s epilogue which Jack read. It made us feel less sad that Drury Lane was going because it felt like that end had been acknowledged rather than it just fading. We didn’t want to finish this blog without mentioning how impressive the writers were because it’s easy to forget how scary it is to let people hear your work. And also 10 points to Alice for being at Yew Tree less than 24 hours and already performing. Since the Writers’ Festival Sarah has been to Wakefield One and really liked it so it looks like the collection is going to a nice new home.
On Wednesday it was the Writers’ Festival which marked the end of Drury Lane Library which is soon to close. Drury Lane is special to Yew Tree because it’s where they held their first youth theatre sessions. There were several instalments created by the writers. One of which was a timeline explaining a bit about the library’s history and the writers had created poems for the different chapters along the timeline. The thing we talked about afterwards was how much we hadn’t known about a building we’d used so much. The timeline said the library had won The Winston Churchill award for National Library Week in 1967 which surprised us because it’s not seen prestigious anymore which is a shame. As we were writing this we realised that as ever we had had exactly the same thought process (similar to when we went to Ikea and bought all the same things for the drama schools we’re going to at different ends of the country,) but anyway we looked around the building and there were so many signs of how grand it used to be. You could see where plaques had been above the bookshelves and the high ceilings and things that used to be polished but aren’t anymore. And it made us feel a bit sad. On a happier note!... people chose poems from the time line to read out. The first poem on the timeline was Gemma’s which was about how aware we are of what’s there now and don’t think about what came before or after the end and the last one was Sarah’s epilogue which Jack read. It made us feel less sad that Drury Lane was going because it felt like that end had been acknowledged rather than it just fading. We didn’t want to finish this blog without mentioning how impressive the writers were because it’s easy to forget how scary it is to let people hear your work. And also 10 points to Alice for being at Yew Tree less than 24 hours and already performing. Since the Writers’ Festival Sarah has been to Wakefield One and really liked it so it looks like the collection is going to a nice new home.
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