Friday, 9 May 2014

Covies Corner Sunday

Tune in this weekend for Covies Corner on Sunday evening 8pm - 10pm,

Thursday, 8 May 2014

ShakeDown The Town


The treasure hunt TV show coming to a town near you this summer!

Calling all treasure hunters!

Adare Productions are looking for families to SHAKEDOWN THE TOWN they live in, in a brand new TV series for RTÉ One.

Each week the SHAKEDOWN THE TOWN command base will roll into town and two teams, each consisting of 5 family members, will compete against each other to crack the clues and be the first to unlock the safe.
Each team will have 3 code breakers, aged 8-14 years old, in the command base. Meanwhile 2 adults will be chasing around their local town trying to gather the numbers for the safe’s combination lock.

Clues will lead each team to several locations within the town. At each location the teams must complete a challenge to retrieve a number for the safe’s combination lock.

So if you want to SHAKEDOWN YOUR TOWN, then put together your treasure hunt team now!

Each family team must have 3 youngsters, aged 8-14 year-olds. So maybe you, your brother or sister and cousin can join forces with two adults, whether that’s your parents / guardians, uncles or aunts.

If you would like to apply, please ask your parent or guardian to email us at: criona@adareproductions.ie

In the email they’ll need to tell us their name, their contact number and address, along with the names and ages of the other members of the treasure hunt team.

Alternatively, they may call us on 01-284 3877.

Filming will take place during June & July, 2014.

All applications must be received by Monday, 26th May 2014.

Those who are successful will be contacted by Adare Productions by 16th June, 2014.
Due to numbers applying it may not be possible to contact unsuccessful applicants. If you have not been contacted by the production by that date you have not been selected.  





Thursday, 3 April 2014

DRAMA AT WRFM

DRAMA AT WRFM 

WRFM Westport Radio 98.2 plans to hold a series of workshops on writing Radio Drama. The eventual goal of the course will be the production of a series of plays bringing local Radio Drama to the busy schedule at the station 

The workshops will be delivered by John Corless an acclaimed Mayo playwright, who amongst many other accolades is Director of this years Claremorris fringe festival of Drama

It is envisaged that John will facilitate a number of two and a half hour long workshops on writing Radio Drama. The initial phase will be probaly be four weeks in number. It is hoped that the drafts coming from this will be contemporary and will ideally have a local theme or some sort of local connection , but will also have universal appeal. 

The group will then break for three or four weeks when the writers will write up the first draft of their scripts. They will return with a follow up number of weekly sessions to finalise the scripts. John will then produce the plays when the project is at the recording and broadcasting stage

The project is well structured with help and facilitation from begining to end but it must be emphasised that those interested  be aware of the personal commitment involved and to ensure optimum facilitation the number of places on the workshop will be limited.

WRFM would now like you all  to express your interest in Drama on your local Radio by firstly getting in touch, closing date for those interested is April 11th  2014.  Call into the Station at the courtyard, just opposite the Clew Bay Hotel James Street, call us on 098 24000 or email the Station  info@wrfm.ie.   From this initial pool of interest WRFM will organise an introductory evening meeting with John Corless to review the project in greater depth and to answer any queries from all the potential playwrights out there and finally formulate a starting date for this exciting new community initiative from WRFM.



Pictured left to right  Mick Kelly, Kate Mills, John Corless