Friction Theatre

The good news is we’ve received some funding from The Sir Barry Jackson Trust and also from Arts Brolly. So this show is on the road. It’s great for it to definitely be going ahead. I’d like to be paying the actors more money but times are hard… Neither the director (me) nor the writer (Helen Kelly) are going to be earning money from this project. But it’s been a labour of love, so we have to see it through to production.

After this show we’ll be applying to the Arts Council to tour (hopefully with some lovely quotes and reviews) so we are hoping it will have a life beyond Birmingham/Bromsgrove and we’re very grateful to The Sir Barry Jackson trust for making this happen.

Well, we’ve had some bad news about one of our funding applications. We’ve been offered a fraction of the amount we asked for (two fifths to be precise). We’re now trying to work out what that means for Catchment Christians and frantically trying to secure the rest of the money from other sources… This appears to involve a lot of creative thinking…