Exciting news for one of our Society’s members. Wendy Goulstone, who writes short plays as well as poetry, is scheduled to have one of her forty-five minute plays to be staged at Rugby Theatre in the Spring (March 20th-March 21).  

The play is called On the Train and tells the story of a train journey between Rugby and Birmingham New Street Station. It has five actors playing eleven parts, getting off at a station and coming immediately back onto the train as someone else, so it should be great fun to perform and to watch.  It is now at the audition stage of production.

Wendy Goulstone has experienced poetry competition success and has had poems published in literary magazines.  She also organises Open Mic evenings for poets, musicians, singers and writers of all description at Rugby Theatre. In the Summer she was join winner of the Staffordshire Libraries Poetry Competition for poems about the local environment with her poem On Cannock Chase . Furthermore, her poem A Little Bit of Heaven was shortlisted in the West Midlands Libraries competition for poems on the theme of Refuge.

Congratulations Wendy!

Whilst we are on the subject of performances, we previously reported that Mariana Gardner, another of our members, was scheduled to appear on the T.S. Eliot Foundation website reading from Sarah Howe’s latest prize-winning collection. Here’s a link so you too can enjoy it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koKtlWV_PXg&ab_channel=T.S.EliotPrize