Nomad Theatre annual report for 2002

This was the year that we finally settled with the builder after receiving the final part of our lottery grant from the Arts Council of England. At last we own the theatre. Over the four years that we have been in our new theatre we have managed to start building up, from revenue, a reserve fund to be able to deal with any unexpected needs. Although we have had two fewer productions than in the previous year we have still maintained the same level of revenue profit. Success in gaining useful sponsorship for some of our activities has played a part in achieving this.

The programme has included an interesting range of productions. We took Popcorn to the Bedlam Theatre for the Edinburgh Fringe and like The Crucible two years ago it was a sell out.

Several of our shows have been written by members, including some one act plays, one of which was taken to a local Drama Festival. Our activities have included more children’s drama workshops for 7 to 14 year olds, There are now eight each week.

The Young Nomads have played a key part in our main productions, particularly back stage, as well as staging their own production and even trying a little street theatre locally.

The number of people attending our monthly lunches with theatre talks has continued to increase and four local disability organisations participated in our annual week long project, involving some 75 members on and back stage.