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The ITV WEST Television Workshop is stepping up a gear! |
We had to say a sad goodbye to our long-suffering Workshop Leader Adam Fresco in October, but the Workshop is looking forward to new things in 2007. The exciting and varied projects we have in store are as follows…
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SHORT FILMS |
| MULTIPLYING LIKE SNAILS' | - Shooting Spring 2007 |
Written by workshop member Sam Cordy
Produced & Directed by Lisa Ruthven.
This darkly comic yarn is set in an out-of-the-ordinary pet shop; with talking rabbits, hamsters performing Shakespeare and an array of weird customers to boot! This League of Gentleman / Monty Python-esque tale is sure to unnerve and entertain…
Auditions will be held early in 2007 and shooting will take place during the Spring Term
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'THE PERFECT DATE' | - Shooting February Half Term 2007 |
Written and Directed by Paul Dudbridge
Produced by Lisa Ruthven
Another collaborative project with Hanover Productions following on from the successes of 'Projection' and 'Coldharbour' - "The Perfect Date" tells the story of widower raising his young family. Trying to move on and get his life back on track, the father of four finds himself back on the dating scene for the first time in two years, with a woman who also happens to be his children's school teacher…
The film will shoot for 4 days in February half term 2007
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PRODUCTIONS |
 ASYLUM
Written by Paul Kember
Produced & Directed by
Lisa Ruthven
Performed by ITV WEST Television Workshop in Studio B2 ITV WEST from
Weds 31st May - Sat 2nd June 2007
As a film crew descend on a decaying Victorian psychiatric hospital to shoot a pop video of a B List celebrity, both the inmates of the hospital and the film crew are thrown into chaos by the return of a former patient who has been discharged into 'community care'. When it emerges that her return is for more than a friendly visit, the events that follow are both deeply humorous and tragic, showing that the gap between sanity and abnormality is not as big as we thought…
Auditions to be held in the January 2007. Watch this space for further details!
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens
Directed by Helen Finnimore
Produced by Lisa Ruthven
Performed by ITV WEST Television Workshop at the Mission Theatre, Bath
Weds 5th - Sat 15th Dec 2007
Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold, arrogant and ungodly man, but when he is visited by three ghosts on the night before Christmas, he is forced to evaluate his life and all his inner demons. Will he listen to their advice and become a better man? Or is it too late?
ITV WEST Television workshop brings this classic Christmas tale to life!11/28/06
Auditions to be held in the Summer Term 2007. Watch this space…
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