SLP Membership Rules
We’d love you to join us and lend us your talents but please read these membership rules first…
1. Membership is open to all persons aged 16 and over who wish to take an active role in a local amateur dramatic club either in a performing or production role.
2. Membership is subject to agreeing the terms of the membership, the payment of a biannual membership fee and attending one meeting to meet some of the other members before paying the membership fee
3. A current member can nominate themselves as the director for each production and current members can suggest productions to stage and the appointment of certain club officers. All acting roles are open to all current members via a open casting with final casting decisions made by the voted in director of that production.
4. A member who wishes to suggest a production for the club to stage cannot be cast in the production without attending a open casting and open to all members. They may elect themselves to direct the production, subject to agreement by the current members. The Club’s committee will have the final say on any production casting if it is deemed by other members that the casting was not deemed open and fair. A member cannot be cast in and direct the same production without the agreement of the chair person.
5. A member does not have the automatic right to be cast in a production and is subject to audition.
6. Members do not have any financial liability or control on the club. Members do have voting rights on the artistic elements of the club and to vote in elected members of the committee and productions must be fully costed by committee of the club before confirmation.
7. Professional actors and performers may become members but cannot put any credit down on any professional CV or Spotlight entry or any professional castings sites for any roles undertaken within The South London Players.
8. All production cost will be met by club and subject to pre agreed budgets per show and all receipts should be given to the Treasurer within 7 days from the end of the production.
9. Members should respect the rehearsal space and performance space at all times.
10. Membership is subject to the good conduct of a member and membership can be withdrawn for a member acting in an aggressive, unlawful or disruptive manner. The appointed director of a production may remove a performer from a show if they feel the performer is not able to attend agreed rehearsals or has not reached a stage of line learning by a agreed date.
The person removed from performing from such a show does not lose membership rights and has the right to appeal to the chair of the club. A member cannot be removed from a production if extra rehearsal dates are demanded by a director and not agreed at the time of accepting the part.
If a member fails to be at the required line learning stage, a director may request extra rehearsals and this is deemed to assist the member, in such cases, a member not agreeing to extra assistance may be removed from a production if not reached the required line learning within 24 hours of the agreed timescale. This will be decided by the chair and the final decision made by the management and not the elected director.
11. Members accept that all productions will be marketed as amateur productions and for many plays this is a requirement by the publisher.
12. The committee has the right to restrict total active members to allow current members a good chance of performing or taking a active backstage role in productions. This limit can be extended if it is deemed that no current member has be found or cast in a upcoming production.
13. Members and committee agree that any social outing, Christmas party or organised social will be advertised and open to all members if promoted via the club. A social event for a current cast and crew such as an after show party may be undertaken without invites to all members.
14. Any member may submit a play they have written and invite members to a read it at a rehearsed reading and at this stage will not be subject to audition unless it is agreed the play will be performed in public by The South London Players.
15. Membership can be cancelled by the member or the management within 72 hours of joining. Membership cannot be cancelled by the member after this period for the six month period. Members if no longer wish to remain members should cancel their mandate for the following six months.
No refunds on current membership will be given after the first 72 hours of joining. As a member you give your consent to be included on email newsletters, invited onto WhatsApp production groups and be in publicity material sent on behalf of The South London Players.
Please indicate if you do not wish to have your email added to this lists of members and inform us of other methods to contact you in relation to rehearsal schedules, castings and social events the group run. Members who do not rejoin or leave the group will be taken off future mailings and should remove themselves from any current WhatsApp group.
16. A member accepts that during the period of membership they may not be cast in any current productions after attending open auditions.
17. All plays for consideration and choice of directors and those who wish to be nominated must be received at least 7 days before auditions. When a play and dates are agreed, a email asking for those members who would like to direct the play will be sent out. If more then one member wishes to nominate themselves to direct, a vote will be held at the next meeting where members can attend or cast a vote via email. If only one nomination, the director role will automatically go to that person.
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To find out more about SLP, to join us to act, write, direct, make sets and props, dance (OK we don’t do musicals just yet but it helps for the after party!) or to get involved in any other way, complete the form here or contact us on these numbers…
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