Caste Away Arts

It’s been a loooooooooooong time since any of us wrote on here. We haven’t vanished off the face of the earth, and we haven’t been lazing around. The truth is we’ve been busier than ever! We can now reveal that The Fifth Cup is coming to a theatre near you in Autumn/Winter 2008! Tour dates and venues are going to go up on this website over the weekend. We started rehearsing again last weekend, it was a brilliant rehearsal and so inspiring to be amongst so many talented and commited people. Will write more later. Peace out Rena Dipti Annobil  

The Fifth Cup was a sell-out show. On On Thursday 13th December we performed The Fifth Cup in front of a packed auditorium (350 people) at The Drum in Birmingham. The show went well, all the actors performed their hearts out like I knew they would. I’m so proud of Read the rest of this entry »

Tomorrow’s production of The Fifth Cup at The Drum has sold out. If you wish to join our mailing list, so we can up-to-date on future showing’s of the play please email info@casteawayarts.com and put “The Fifth Cup mailing list - add me!” in the subject title.

Caste Away Arts will be all over radio this week promoting The Fifth Cup. Here’s what’s happening: This Friday we’ll be live on Raaj Radio in Leicester at 11.10am for an in-depth interview. On Friday night we’ll be live on BBC WM Radio, this will be at 9.20pm on the Midlands Masala show presented by Satnam Rana. This Sunday morning between, 7am and 8am, a ten minute feature about The Fifth Cup will be going out on Radio 4’s religious programme. On Wedneday 12th December we’ll be live on Nihal’s show on BBC Asian Network. This will be from 11am to 12pm for an in-depth interview.  Please try and tune in for these if you can.

So many things have happened since we last wrote anything on here. We just had a long weekend of some hardcore rehearsals. Everything is coming along well, the actors and the characters they are playing have developed so much. On Friday evening we had a run-through of the whole play Read the rest of this entry »

Sunday was Rehearsal 3 of The Fifth Cup. The love was still there but so was the pressure! We wanted everyone to be off-script for Sunday but some of the actors still didn’t know all their lines. Arrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggh!! We’ve got less than a month left!!  It was a really productive Read the rest of this entry »

Pictures of The Fifth Cup Rehearsal Day Two are now on-line. Go to http://casteawayarts.com/whatson/thefifthcup to view!

Not only do Caste Away Arts do theatre which is total eye candy but we have our own range of hair care product for splitting hairs yes ladies, gents and in the betweenies its called Reena B’s MA! Dur dur doh! Before I even got involved in Caste Away Arts Read the rest of this entry »

I spent yesterday afternoon swanning around the corridors of power. I’m talking about The Houses of Parliament. - It wasn’t just for fun though, I was attending the CasteWatchUK conference. Quite a few people attended including various MPs, including Virendra Sharma, Labour MP for Ealing Southall, and Labour Councillor Elias Read the rest of this entry »

What a great day - QUALITY! I can still feel the love two days later! And by that I mean, the way that the whole cast and crew became friends (even I managed to put my whip away and crack a smile!), the emotions coming out during the scene workshops, Read the rest of this entry »