DYSSING MONADYS FESTIVAL LINE UP

MONDAY OCTOBER 13
7pm FILM/Animation: Tasha Hollywood
7:15pm POET: Sarah Murphy
7:30PM PLAY:
Chocolate Sabotage
by Lennie Varvarides
directed by Lennie Varvarides
cast: Alex Tanner, Louise Morell, Claire Rafferty, Chryssanthy Kofidou

MONDAY OCTOBER 27
7pm FILM: TBA
7:15pm POET: TBA
7:30PM PLAY: Deception, Illusion and Nate
by Catie O'Keefe
directed by Amanda Guiseppi

MONDAY NOVEMBER 10
7pm FILM: TBA
7:15pm POET: TBA
7:30pm PLAY: The Crucifixion Of Madeline McKay
by Alex Morris
directed by Steve Harris
cast: ‎Beverley Eve, Louise Jackson

MONDAY NOVEMBER 24
7pm FILM: TBA
7:15pm POET: TBA
7:30PM PLAY: Susanna
by N. N. Rakshin
directed by Vince
cast: Suzanne Goldberg, Gabriella Schmidt, Natasha Radski, Simon Burbage, Neil Suarez, Frank Threapleton-Horroks, John Hickey

DYSSING MONADYS FESTIVAL LINE UP

MONDAY OCTOBER 6
7pm FILM/Animation: Sarah Murphy
7:15pm POET: Henry Fleet
7:30PM PLAY: LD
by Matt Heftler
directed by Malwina Sworczuk
cast: Samantha Hopkins, Adrian Rodriguez-Cova

MONDAY OCTOBER 20
7pm FILM: TBA
7:15pm POET: Emma Elliott
The Dog And Duck Fables
7:30PM PLAY: Chocolate Sabotage
by Lennie Varvarides
directed by Lennie Varvarides
cast: Alex Tanner, Louise Morell, Claire Rafferty, Chryssanthy Kofidou

MONDAY NOVEMBER 3
7pm FILM: TBA
7:15pm POET: TBA
7:30pm PLAY: Behind The Wire
by Rebecca Gooden
directed by
cast:

MONDAY NOVEMBER 17
7pm FILM: TBA
7:15pm POET: TBA
7:30PM PLAY: Susanna
by N. N. Rakshin
directed by Vince
cast: SuzanneGoldberg, Gabriella Schmidt, Natasha Radski, Simon Burbage, Neil Suarez, Frank Threapleton-Horroks, John Hickey

Under her spell: Sally Gardner's I, Coriander, was voted best book by a 55,000-strong panel of schoolchildren.

Michelle Pauli
guardian.co.uk,
Wednesday December 14 2005 15:52 GMT
Article history

An author with severe dyslexia, who did not learn to read until she was 14, has beaten Philip Pullman to this year's Nestle children's book prize. Sally Gardner's fantasy adventure, I, Coriander, was chosen by a panel of schoolchildren as the best book in the nine-to-11 years category.

Speaking after the lunchtime ceremony at the British Library, Gardner said that she was "bowled over and completely flabbergasted" by her gold medal win. "If some of my teachers could see me now, they would not believe it," she added.

Gardner was labelled as unteachable and sent to a special school as a result of her dyslexia, which remained undiagnosed until she was 12. She changed her first name from Sarah to Sally because it was easier for her to spell and she believes that her learning difficulty helps her to write for the preteen age group.

"I really have to think about long words," she explained. "If I can't spell them I won't include them unless they are really necessary or are simply wonderful words."

Her winning novel tells the story of Coriander, the daughter of a 17th-century London silk merchant, who endures a miserable childhood in the care of a Puritanical stepmother. Escaping to a "fairy kingdom", she learns about herself and her mother's heritage and returns to Cromwell's London charged with a task.

Maddie Toole and Laura Palmer, both 10, of Beccles middle school in Beccles, Suffolk, were part of the 55,000-strong children's judging panel for the prizes, and attended the ceremony with their classmates. They both voted for I, Coriander. "The description of the characters and the fairy world is really good," Maddie said. "And the plot was really good too - I couldn't put it down!" agreed Laura.

Philip Pullman's The Scarecrow and His Servant won the silver medal in the age category, with Livi Michael's The Whispering Road taking third place.

In the six-to-eight years category, Nick Butterworth's The Whisperer, a tale of two cats who fall in love, won the gold medal. Corby Flood by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, who won the gold last year with Fergus Crane, came second this time and Michael Rosen's marvellously brave and mould-breaking Sad Book, based on the author's own pain after the death of his son Eddie, was awarded bronze.

In the five-years-and-under picture book section, Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers won the gold medal for a book described by the chair of the adult judging panel, Julia Eccleshare, as "an emotional and beautiful journey" by a penguin. The Dancing Tiger by Malachy Doyle won the silver and Wolves by Emily Gravett, the bronze.

The Nestle prize is now in its 21st year and previous Nestle prize-winners include all the children's laureates - Anne Fine, Quentin Blake, Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson - while JK Rowling and Lauren Child have each won three medals.

Makeing Waves

Just under three weeks to go and we have six amazing plays by new writers who are also dyslexic. Being dyslexic means you have a pretty mad time learning, plus side is you come up with new ways of making sense of the world, new ways of memorising and filling in the blanks. My biggest issue is spelling and organisation. I am not very practical and I do not have any concept of time, but I do enjoy saying YES alot and believing that I can do it...I read this article that said dyslexic people make wonderful entrepreneurs because they cannot see the risks involved in a new business venture - I totally agree with this. RISK - what risk....

We need Performance Poets and Filmmakers

We are looking for 24 dyslexic performance poets and 12 filmmakers -

PERFORMANCE POETS:
Ten poems max. May sent in CD or/and DVDs of live performances, along with CV's.

FILMMAKERS: 1-20 minutes max. You many submit more than one film on any subject matter. Films must have a title, full credits, and CV.

please contact lennie asap at dysthelexi@gmail.com before 30 Sept

Monday's Rehursals

Larry and Sasha

CASTING FOR MALE AND FEMALE ROLES

DATE: WED 10 SEPT 08

TIME:7PM

PLACE: 35 KINGSLAND ROAD, SHOREDITCH

PLEASE BRING YOUR CV AND HEADSHOT ON THE DAY

YOU WILL BE READING FROM THE SCRIPT ON THE DAY

Please email vinceldt@aol.com for a time slot and email him your CV and Headshot too.

PARTS:

Peter – 5'10 to 6'2 – dark hair – very fit - 20s (to play 40s) A student making a living working on the docks. He is a romantic. Singer. In Act 2 he is financially secure but not happy with life.

Alexander – medium length dark hair - average build – 20s (to play 40s)A student. Good natured. Enjoys life.

Michael / Arthur – short blonde or ginger – bearded – husky frame - 20s (to play 40s) Michael
A student. Obsessed with telling the truth. He is very self-assured. / Arthur – an adoring fan of

Peter's who is also sleeping with Peter's wife, Olga.Mr. Andrew / Ivan – 5'10 to 6'2 – dark hair – slim - early 20s (to play 60s)Mr. Andrew – Old drunk landlord. / Ivan – a young impulsive romantic. His mother is Susanna.

Susanna – 5'6 to 5'10 - long dark hair – athletic – 20s (to play 40s) A student studying literature. Witty. She believes herself immune to passion, but falls for Peter. In Act 2 she is married to Arthur.

Irina / Olga – blonde hair – imposing figure - 20s (to play 40s)Irina – A headstrong woman also studying literature. Olga – She is the eccentric daughter of a wealthy family. She babies her husband Peter as well as her lover Arthur.

Nina / Elena – dark or multi-colored hair – petite – early 20sNina – She is studying literature and plans to become a teacher, but isn't 100% happy about it. / Elena – a troublesome servant who falls for Ivan.

In the Rehearsal Room - For Chocolate Sabotage

DYSSING MONADYS

Sasha needs to be sick, Larry has to wach, Sasha knows Larry is whatching, and Larry feels bad, but he cant say he feels bad, so they have a domestic in their bathroom....instead.

Well suspend your disbelief.

This is what we do - do it with us

DYSMING MONADYS

Back in May 2006, while we were putting on Write Side Of The Brain, I had this mad idea that there should be a festival for Dyslexic writers. I had the name of the festival in my head. It was going to be called, DYS(the)LEXI. in March 2007 DYS(the)LEXI took form.

Ideas are powerful so have as many of them as you can, often and without rest. The more you have, the more you keep getting and each and everyone is completely possible.

We never got any funding for DYS(the)LEXI - well we did, but the £250 RB was able to get, vanished in the expenses of our budget before we even saw it.

This year we have even less money to work with, but somehow what we lack in money we make up in people and people are a more valuable currency in theatre.

Amy H for example is my rock. She made the website and got us a top google ranking in the first few months of going live, because she is amazing and know what she is doing.

People all over the world have hared about us through our gorilla marketing and I know that missfit productions will be around for as long as I am.

DYSSING MONADYS is low budget, but that means we have all the freedom in the world to play by our own rules.

DYS(the)LEXI Presents DYSSING MONADYS

2008 is even bigger then last year, its become fashionable to be dyslexic and everyone is coming out of the closet...yeah.

DYSSING MONADYS is part of the Adult Dyslexia Awareness Week and we are doing everything we can to promote our festival playwrights, poets and filmmakers. Its a shame we can not find any brave directors who want to work with us...we are just too challenging, obviously:)

If you are brave and think you can direct, what many other directors are saying they cant, email lennie at dysthelexi@gmail.com today.