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Drama
Mermaids Performing Arts Fund Drama permeates St Andrews. There is always something going on, be it musicals, movies, plays, readings, workshops, dance, student writing or basically anything you want. Mermaids makes that possible.
Mermaids – the Performing Arts arm of the Students’ Association – is the University’s single biggest group. Every student is automatically a member and over 1,300 students actively take part in some capacity. Each year, with Mermaids’ help, students put on around 30-40 productions, the very best of which go to the Edinburgh Fringe. They have their own 60- seat studio theatre on North Street, The Barron Theatre, which also has a workshop and meeting room and is home to the Mermaids’ props and costume collection.
Mermaids is not a theatre society, it is a fund. This means we don’t put on shows, you do! Just come along to us, and we will provide the finances, resources, guidance and support. We comprise a committee of 12 members, each specialising in a different area of theatre production. Mermaids also has a variety of affiliated theatre societies; Blind Mirth (improv comedy), Gilbert and Sullivan Society, CMaD (Christian Music and Drama Society), Revue (sketch comedy writing) and Just So (Musical Theatre).
Last year we helped stage over 30 productions, including classic plays such as Romeo and Juliet, The Glass Menagerie and Faust and more modern productions such as Spring Awakening, Proof, and Translations. Some of our productions went on tour to varied destinations and a few had huge success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Catherine (Altrincham, Cheshire)
“Mermaids has been a tremendous part of my university life. I have met some fantastic and talented people, and had some unforgettable experiences to take forward into the future. St Andrews would not have been the same without this wonderful society.”
“The opportunities that St Andrews drama has to offer have transformed theatre for me from being merely a hobby to something I now how hope to pursue professionally.”
Charlotte (Auchtermuchty, Fife)
Mermaids is also one of the organisers of On The Rocks, a week- long student-run Scottish arts festival, showcasing performance and creative art from students in St Andrews and the rest of Scotland, including drama, film, music, poetry, visual art and comedy in over twelve venues across the town, including the Byre Theatre, and the grounds of the Castle.
Whatever your taste in the performing arts, there’s always something in which to get involved.
Ben Goulter
Gayle Cook Music and Drama
Programme and publicity photograph, Mermaid Dramatic Society production of The Rehearsal, 1965
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