{"id":177,"date":"2025-05-30T12:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/?p=177"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:04:03","slug":"sa-players-go-to-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/2025\/05\/30\/sa-players-go-to-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Players go to finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0cm;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"eop\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">The Stromness Academy Players are going south to compete in the SCDA youth finals in St Andrews, to perform their play which has competed twice already in the Orkney Theatre in February and the second time in March on the Brechin City Hall stage, winning both times first place! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0cm;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"eop\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">Now they are going to St Andrews down south to compete for the Scottish drama competition and if they win, they will be going home as the champions of Scotland.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0cm;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"eop\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">This all takes place on the 21st June 2025. Their play is called \u2018Everything you always wanted to know about your teacher but were afraid to ask\u2019 which is a comedy play made to relate to teachers in a dramatised fashion and it has been utterly adored across the island and in Brechin too, which gives our players a good amount of hope.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0cm;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"eop\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">The play has a crew of 15 \u2013 13 actors and 2 on lights and sound \u2013 so there are a lot of people to take down south. They will be leaving on the Friday Hjaltland and coming back on Sunday, staying overnight in Dundee after the competition on the Saturday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0cm;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"eop\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">Arwen Macnamara, an actor in the play, said, \u201cI think the trip will be really fun and I believe we have a good chance of winning,\u201d proving the determination the group has with just one person. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0cm;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"eop\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">Fraya Purnell, also in the cast, exclaimed, \u201cI am so excited for June and so enthusiastic about our hard work, I\u2019m so grateful for all these opportunities!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0cm;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"eop\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">We aren\u2019t yet sure who they are competing against so we can\u2019t get too confident. Updates are to come.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0cm;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"eop\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">The Players would like to thank Stromness Drama Club, Northlink Ferries, Birsay Drama Group, and Barbara Grieve for kindly providing sponsorship as they progress to St Andrews. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0cm;vertical-align: baseline\"><span class=\"eop\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">By Kacey B<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stromness Academy Players are going south to compete in the SCDA youth finals in St Andrews, to perform their play which has competed twice already in the Orkney Theatre in February and the second time in March on the Brechin City Hall stage, winning both times first place! &nbsp; Now they are going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/2025\/05\/30\/sa-players-go-to-finals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SA Players go to finals!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/sayoungreporter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}