Avignon Off In English!

<p>  </p> <p> <i>Your donations can help contribute to the success of our Avignon run and ensure we can continue bringing you high quality English language productions year round.</i></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> Like most small theatre companies, we manage our budgets tightly and as prudently as we can, but creating productions of consistently high quality has a cost. As a company we have invested heavily to ‘make it’ to Avignon, with all the associated costs. As such, we have had significantly to deplete the reserves of our organisation. While we have covered the ‘basics’, certain costs run beyond our budget – with  the risk that we will have to cover any shortfalls from our personal accounts and more importantly that will affect our ability to bring you future work.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>By donating to our project you can help:</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> ·         Pay a part of our accommodation costs – even though we will be staying in a camp site caravan  (we  really aren’t extravagant!) the costs for the  cast and crew run  to 1900 euros</p> <p>  </p> <p> ·         Our 2nd class travel from Paris to Avignon which will cost 600€ for our team of  5</p> <p>  </p> <p> ·         Help reinforce our professional communication,  with a personalised communication programme to key professionals costing 300 euros</p> <p>  </p> <p> ·         Pay a part of the costs of communication to the public with additional posters and flyers  etc.  (300€)</p> <p>  </p> <p> ·         Pay for the performing rights/royalties  for Under Milk Wood (estimated at 400 euros)</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Green_carnation_2-1432205971" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/200964/Green_carnation_2-1432205971.png"></p> <p>  </p> <p> ·         And finally, to help pay for an essential  and surprisingly expensive prop for the Oscar Wilde play – green carnations and white lilies, which are  hard to find and need to be renewed frequently throughout our run (budget of 180€)</p> <p>  </p> <p> ‘<em>In an elegant pudgy hand, there would often be a lily, or perhaps a sunflower’</em></p> <p>  </p> <p> ‘<em>The green carnation, which Oscar Wilde had invented as a button hole, came to stand for a brief and brilliant season or two as a symbol of the age’</em></p> <p> <strong>(From More lives than One- Oscar Wilde &amp; the Black Douglas)</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> Please note, both Dear Conjunction and our partner the Chapeau Rouge Theatre are run by registered non-profit associations, the laws of which strictly govern the way our income can be used.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Umw_2-1431884921" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/199254/UMW_2-1431884921.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> If we surpass the amount collected it will be invested into the creation and promotion of our new programmes – the <strong>2016 Printemps Anglophone</strong> at the theatre du Chapeau Rouge and the Dear Conjunction production of <strong>The Line, </strong>by Timberlake Wertenbaker, about the relationship between Edgar Degas and Suzanne Valadadon - in other words to bring you more great theatre in the English language</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>Why you might</strong> <strong>want to consider</strong> <strong>donating:</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> - Because you have seen a Dear Conjunction play in the past and want to help us continue    to bring you high quality productions,</p> <p>  </p> <p>  -Because you are passionate about the great works of the English language and want to help our mission to help them be discovered across France (and beyond!),</p> <p>           </p> <p> - You want to help our partner the Chapeau Rouge continue to promote and bring English language works to Avignon.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Cr4-1432204592" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/200936/CR4-1432204592.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Rebecca_james-1432151215" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/200694/Rebecca_James-1432151215.jpg"></p> <p>  </p>