PROJECTS IN 2009   “Burmese Theatre Workshop” This workshop is designed to be fun and provide necessary training for full scale production about Burmese situation after Cyclone Nargis. We will work with everyone from absolute beginners to seasoned professionals, whilst we explore different styles, techniques and themes. It will include writing, improvisation and performing. The workshop will led by a professional theatre practitioner and may be visiting tutors(we are delighted to have the excellent and talented Amelia Cvallo as one of our visiting tutors.You can find more about her onwww.ameliacavallo.net . This workshop is free for anyone from Burmese community. But we have only limited space, so please RSVP ASAP to Lwin Mclay at 07887771069 or info@andrewmclay.com, before 30th June 2009. The duration of workshop will be 12 weeks and one evening per week.  Place and time to be confirmed.  In 2009 I'll be writing my play Eagles and adapting George Orwell's novel Burmese Days for the stage. In May I'll be directing a rehearsed reading of Mike Dibb's play 'Present Tense'. Later this year I'll be going back to Burma to run a drama project at the Eden Centre a school for disabled children and to run voice and drama workshops at  Gitamate Music School. Also, setting up 'Yangon Theatre Workshop' the first inclusive theatre company in Burma. LAST YEAR 2008 You'll be able to see me performing through out Novemeber with Edinburgh Theatre Workshop, playing 'Marat' in Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade. Directed by Robert Rae.  Marat-Sade is a theatrical mediation of history, a comment on the dramatically changing world of the 1960s. It is a play of philosophical questioning, examining issues of social and sexual freedom and the merits of revolution.  A fine example of Artaud's 'Theatre of Cruelty', Theatre Workshop's 'in-yer-face' interpretation will both shock and challenge audiences. With a large cast of some of Britain's best disabled actors including Nabil Shaban, this production will bring you Marat-Sade in all its raw intensity............See photos of me playing Marat in my gallery. You'll see me in Holby City, Episode 40, in J uly 2008. I play Martin Kelly a Clinical Risk Manager. 'You'll be able to hear my play WATCH THE SPIDER On 19th February,2008 at 9:30 pm on Czech Radio 3 - Vltava.'         ON STAGE IN NOVEMBER 2008 13-16 Andrew  appeared with Theatre Workshop at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh in Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss. Directed by Robert Rae.   ON STAGE IN MAY 2008 19-24 Andrew  appeared with Theatre Resource at the Oval theatre in The Conquest Of the South Pole, By Manfred Karge. Directed by Jeff Banks and Anna Wallbank. Designed By Kimie Nakano. Conquest of the South Pole is a funny, moving play about the soul-eroding problem of long-term unemployment, in which four men stave off the despair of joblessness by re-enacting Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole. So, what do this group of jobless, penniless, hopeless disabled people do? They get off their backsides and go to the South Pole! Want to see how they do it? Join them on the expedition of a lifetime.

ABOUT ANDREW McLAY... If you want to be included on our data-base for future shows and information. Please leave a note at the contact page....Enjoy!  I would like to welcome you to the privilege world of Andrew Mclay: actor, playwright and dancer. Andrew has been an actor for a couple years. To get his training, as no acting school would take him because of his wheelchair, he set up Uplift Theatre Company with a group of professional actors. Read more...