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  	Just a quick newsletter this week. As you know I'm preparing for Cannes. New shirts today, haircut booked for Monday. Got the new shoes already :) Cannes is certainly different already, I've had lots of great support and have been contacted about potential business opportunities, and that's before I step into the busiest marketplace in the world for filmmakers.  The schedule post-Cannes is also looking exciting. Indiana Gregg home concerts start when I get back. I've also been invited to film at the annual Mull-Of-Kintyre run at the end of May. On the review front, Katie Melua's documentary film arrived for editing and reviewing as well as the Laurence Olivier Centenary Collection. Dame Margot Fonteyn in Swan Lake will be first up as the edit is almost finished. In July, we have 24/7 Fringe Festival in Manchester to film and returning from New York for this years Edinburgh Fringe in August, is Ryan JW Smith with Love Labours Won. This year Ryan has introduced "tasteful nudity" into the performance, so I have a huge list of available cameramen all of a sudden. Clearly some editing challenges if I'm to publish it on Bebo. Bebo has been superb. The plans discussed way back in February with the exec team, are starting to fall into place and some of the videos are really taking off. Bill Hicks Slight Return with Chas Early is the front runner. With hits around the 30,000 mark on Youtube, it's now taking off on Bebo as well. Ditch Dwellers has started to get some interest with around 1,000 new views in the last week alone. Jon Cuthbertson has also found fame not only with his interviews of the BAFTA Celebrities on the front page of Bebo, but his latest review on FAME FOREVER (see below) has had almost 300 views in less than a week. So.....it's all happening. Thanks again for your comments, support and emails. I hope you'll continue to support the newcomers to the site and welcome them into the UK Theatre Network community. It's true what Shakespeare wrote, all the world really IS a stage. Have a nice weekend. Douglas McFarlane       Reviews Cannes 2007 287 Views - Fame Review THE MAY QUEEN The world premiere of Stephen Sharkey's The May Queen, a dark and brutal thriller, is at the Liverpool Everyman, from 4 May to 26 May Manchester Library Theatre New Works Festival Exciting opportunity for new writing on Manchester's burgeoning fringe theatre scene Aida and Tosca at The Richmond Theatre Two of the most famous opera's ever a The Richmond Theatre... FAME FOREVER - KINGS THEATRE, GLASGOW 1st – 5th MAY 2007 The World Premiere of David De Silva’s sequel to Fame the Musical opens this week in Glasgow.   Twisted This is one of those rare experiences, when you go to see a play in a fringe theatre and you know that you are seeing something that is primed for a much longer life. Twisted runs until May 5th, nightly at 7.45pm with 3pm matinee on Saturday. www.ovalhouse.com   Keep in touch with progress on "Making It In Hollywood" and its journey to the Cannes Short Film Corner. Send a blank email to alerts@ukfilm.tv to be notified of blog picture updates.       www.uktheatre.net

  May 12th, 2007 at 8:50 am

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