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Yeah, if you're going to ask me how I did it I don't know. It's the short answer. It's just sort of, it came from me. I suppose it was an idea that started, I work a lot with teenagers as you know so it kind of sort of sparked from them because the common denominator that they all have is that they all have an attitude towards school so I thought let's explore that so it sort of it's spanned from there and the brilliant thing about lockdowns was there was lots of time to write so that's where it came from. And how long did it take you from start to finish to complete it? Because it's the first inception there are still things that I'm tweaking and changing here but I kind of first came up with an idea in 2019 so it was three, two and a half, three years ago so it's been sort of on the back burner and running around my mind for that length of time. Yeah so that's sort of where it is. And it's a comedy or it's not it's not a very serious, I suppose there are issues that are serious but there's a laugh or two in it as well. There's a laugh or two as well. The best way to describe it is that it deals with it's sort of a reflection back on your day your sort of your final days of secondary school and all the things that sort of you think are very serious at the time but as you get older you realise aren't that you know impactful you know things like your first kiss and your attitude towards going out to the disco and stuff like that. That all changes dramatically as you get older. So that's the sort of the funny moments are in that you know exploring that type of thing as well. Yeah I think that's the best way to describe it. And I suppose from my own time too in school as you know yourself. I remember that. And like you know adolescence it's not an easy time. No it's not and the play does touch on that as well. Although there's comedy moments about what they sort of how they interact with things and you look back on it in ten years time and you go gosh wasn't that silly that we worried about that at the time but there are sort of very difficult things that they deal with and one of the things that this play explores is social media and the sort of the impact of social media and social media is a great thing because it allows us to be connected and it allows us to sort of communicate a lot quicker than we ever could previously but there's that sort of dark sort of insidious almost bullying side to social media and the play touches on that as well that it's not all sort of a good thing social media and that's sort of the main conflict in the in the in the musical comes from a thing that happens on social media and the fallout then of how it sort of ruins two of the character's lives and they have to deal with that. So that's where that I think that you know social media like as you say it has such a so many positive things but I know whenever I was a school and you had a row with someone well we didn't even have a telephone in our house never made a mobile phone. There was no there was no contact so you forgot about it but it's it's in your face all the time now. It is in your face all the time and it's the play deals with that that even they get older it's still something that's affecting them and that's still something that sort of plagues their life. So why the play does end on a message of forgiveness and a message of hope which I do want to kind of reinforce a lot throughout the musical but as you say it follows them everywhere and even whenever I was in secondary school as you remember you know it was sort of the same thing you had an argument but social media wasn't that big back then it was it was present but you kind of dealt with it all the day and then moved on whereas now as you say it just lingers with them and it can be very sort of damaging if not if not dealt with correctly so it does touch on that. I was intrigued by the title brown days now it's sort of what I what I what I had in my mind was like brown it's sort of it's it's sort of a murky color and maybe that was as far from your head when you when you chose a title. Really it did start off because the majority of people that I have come from a I don't know if I can mention it there's a secondary school in the town here that is all guidance and their uniform is a certain color and they all sort of complain about why the uniform is this color so I initially sort of wrote it to okay so it's brown days they all have a brown uniform but it did sort of morph from that into what you're sort of talking about where it is murky days and it's days that are basically days that are a bit crap and we all have our brown days and the play touches on that that even when you're in school and you're having your brown days as you get older you still have brown days but I think you're more equipped to deal with them the older you get and yeah that's what sort of you're kind of spot on with the title and characters are there many characters in the play Andrew? We've 20 speaking parts believe it or not so there's quite a large cast but the four main characters are Serena, Zara, Jessica, yes Jessica and the guys called Oliver and they follow around and the tagging along with them as a character called Colette who is also one of the main characters but doesn't sort of make an appearance and so sort of halfway through and that's very deliberate because she's the shy one and the social media fallout happens with her and then suddenly she becomes the center of attention and because she's so shy she's not sure how to deal with all this center of attention and the resulting sort of fallout from that there so there are five main characters I suppose four main characters for the first act of the play and then Colette comes into the sort of a main player halfway through so we're very excited we have actually cast our Colette a local girl from the town Liam Mullen a very very talented singer very excited to get her onto the stage as well and hoping to cast the rest now on the 18th of June which is next Saturday we're having our final round of auditions and then after that we'll have our characters sorted hopefully and age wise you're talking about teens like a group of teens from 13 to leaving stairs or is it roughly we have an age gap of 14 to 21 so we are open to people that are a little bit older maybe people that have an interest in musical theater that are you know maybe local and at university but still want to do something over the summer we just opened it up to those as well because we thought why not give everyone an opportunity that's still sort of going through that same thing because I think when you're in university some of the rules from school still apply to you and you're still going through the journey of academia so yeah so the last chance then to audition for the for the remaining part is the 18th that's Saturday yes and where are they going to be held Andrew yeah 18th of June it's Saturday over in the alley theater so it's the library part of the alley theater but if you go to the alley they will direct you where to go at a half 10 it only lasts an hour and a half and if you are interested in coming to that all we ask you to do is prepare a song any song from any musical theater performance that you so desire if you wish to be considered for the lead that is and they'll be a bit of dance in there too so wear something fantastic and of course as you say you should mention dancing there you're or you've written it and all the rest and as far as I'm concerned once it's cast and then we've got a director I'm done no so we do I have written it and I have a team behind me as well Jade Miloio Donald who is trained in Stella man over in London and she's a girl from Straban and she is going to be choreographing it and doing all the wonderful things that Jade can do and then Corey Morrison who is a very very talented director and producer who's been working since 2014 across the whole island of Ireland directing and producing different works for different companies is on board as our director so very excited to get to work with the two of those as well and we will have guest appearances by Miss Andrea Emmett of Triumph Performing Arts she's coming back over she's actually training in London at the minute so also excited to get Andrea involved too so yeah a great team behind behind it so looking forward to getting given teenagers as well the opportunity to work with professionals like Jade and Corey and Andrea and uh and seeing seeing that there is a job in theatre I suppose as opposed to just people dancing on stage and once once you've got the final cast Andrew then uh there's workshops involved then for a few weeks before the final final performance yeah so the project itself then runs from the 8th of August until the 19th which is two weeks um so it'll be Monday to Friday uh it'll be quite intensive we're running from 10 to 6 Monday to Friday and they'll do all their dancing they'll run their lines and their scenes together and uh the first week will be in a location here in letter Kenny and the second week uh they're going to get the experience of putting on a play from the Monday to the Friday actually in the theatre um so from the Monday of the week of the show they will have their lights they will have their set they will have everything so they get that full week uh lucky ducks get a full week in the theatre with their set and everything as well uh I can only dream of having that for for some of the things that I do but um yeah so that's that's what they're doing and then two final two performances uh on the 18th and 19th of August and that wraps it up then for the summer and who knows hopefully in a couple of years it will have developed then into something that's maybe a bit bigger and that's my ambition is to keep this going Rome wasn't built in a day as they say and not that I'm equating my play to Rome but um yeah that's that's it's it's a development as much as it's a finished piece as well because I'm excited to see where it goes and what happens with it so fantastic so it's going to be staged in the alley and have you got dates for the final performance Andrew? Yes sorry so the 18th and 19th are the the final performance dates the week of the last week of their intensive so the 18th to the 19th of August at half seven in the alley theatre there in Sturban and tickets are actually on sale now so if you already have somebody in the cast that you know why not just go ahead and book and you've you've you've given me a radio edit off one of the songs so I'm going to play that later on in the show and let you've written and who's actually singing that one that is the girl that we have cast as Collette Lea Mullen from Lea Mullen so um she's very very talented as you will know it out here when when the when the song was out so we're very excited to to get her up on the stage and to showcase the talent and the talent of all the teams that we have so far involved is is the main objective as well so well congratulations once again because don't say nothing until you say and many many thanks for taking time out for to joining me tonight Andrew and every success with brown days. Thank you.