Wow! What a ride this has been. This has been the best stage production by StageOne by far with many laughs and unexpected gags, jokes and pranks including surprising Wishee Washee with his happy birthday, visual gags by Abanazer, and the presentation to the Director. We were in condition tonight. The audience enjoyed this performance and so did we. This was a classic tale of love conquering all boundaries and good triumphing over evil.

Another excellent performance by StageOne with so many laughs we lost count with plenty of booing of vile Abanazer. The audience enjoyed this performance and so did we. We are back again for only one more fortune transforming and ruining performances. Just who are these invisible, silent and deadly ninjas?

Another excellent panto performance by StageOne with lot more laughs, and booing of vile Abanazer. We really enjoyed this performance and are happy the audience all enjoyed it too. And oh my, we are back again tomorrow for a double whammy of fortune transforming and ruining performances. Will Abanazer ever get hold of the magic lamp and rule the world?

We had a great start to our panto shows with lots of laughs and some humorous moments. We really did well and put on a great evenings entertainment. Of course we will be doing it all over again tomorrow. Oh yes we are! Oh yes we are!

This week Malcolm lead an exciting workshop where we discussed directing and observed Malcolm direct members in performing three sketches. StageOne also had a guest leader, Ian who is the resisdent organist for Folkestone Methodist Church. StageOne has a fun time singing their hearts away to some classics such as "Consider Yourself" and others.

On Sunday 18th Decemeber StagOne performed 3 Christmas themed sketches at the Christingle service at Sandgate Road Methodist Church. The sketches included "The Tone Deaf Angel" (a parody of X Factor) where the Angel Gabriel auditions for a Angelic Throng and fails miserably. There was "The Twelve Days of Christmas" where a choir start the well know song of very well and start changing the verses to simulate how we can all get caught up in hustle and bustle of preparing for Christmas and forget the real meaning of Christmas. Finally, there was "Camel Crash" where a traveling sales rep who is staying overnight in Bethlehem retells us about of a ugly camel pile up on his way into the town and brags about how he sold three kings some gold, frankincense and myrrh to replace broken new baby gifts. This is brought to a abrupt end when he finds out he can't have his donkey parked in its allot space because of a couple and a baby, and that a parking attendant is looking at the donkey and issuing a ticket.

Last Tuesday Roger led us in new direction thinking about the psychology of drama - considering ideas like how does role-play help us to come terms with ourselves (we all have our favourite roles!) - Freud used to sit people 'in the psychologist's chair and analyze their dreams - a later idea developed ( by Jacob Morenco and called psydodrama) where the stage replaces the chair! As a practical application of these ideas, we divided into groups of three, role-playing a mother, a baby just born, and dad - asking each other the sort of questions which cannot be asked at the time - mummy why am I here and where did I come from? Who am I and who are you? Am I going to get any bigger or remain helpless for ever? - the baby that is! good fun but deep questions pursued.

Then Malcolm challenged us to act some scenes from the life of St Thomas a Becket, of Canterbury Cathedral fame - it's not easy acting out medieval times, with rather different mindsets! Some improvisation added to the fun!

On Saturday 19th November StageOne took part in the D.I.Y concert at the United Reformed Church, in Folkestone.

The concert had a large turn out and had a wide variety of performances from professional young dancers, singers and musicians and StageOne.

StageOne performed two sketches. The first was a sketch written by Dave Hopwood and was a retelling of the parable of Rich Fool in Luke 12:16-21. The second sketch was written by one of the members of StageOne and has a funny twist at the end.

StageOne took part in the Churches Together Folkestone All Saints service on Sunday 29th October and dramatized a few verses of St Pauls letter to the Colossians.

It was a lovely evening service with lots of people coming along and joining in the singing lead by a brilliant music group and choir.

On Sunday 29th october StageOne took part in The of Word of the Lord at the United Reformed Church, in Folkestone.

It was a fascinating immensely display. It comprised of extracts from readings and psalms from the Old Testament and the New Testament.

StageOne also read a variety of proverbs, the Beatitudes, the Condemnations of Hypocrisy, and New Testament teachings.