But anyway, we have now secured a new sharing site, and all the plays are available once again. They can once more be downloaded from https://dunshelmplayers.wordpress.com/, and as ever, they are all absolutely free.

(If anybody finds that any of the links aren't working, please let us know in this thread and we will try and correct the problem.)

As usual, we have a non-festive festive offering for you all this year. If you go to the Famous For Retreating page - https://dunshelmplayers.wordpress.com/dramas/famous-for-retreating/ - you will find it looks slightly different. The aforementioned 'Missing Scene' by Ricky Temple has been redrafted, extended, recorded, and mixed into a standalone (well, sort of) skitlet that you can all download.

It features me as Aeric/Lord F, Ross Thompson as Motley, and Amy Davies as Mellisandre (remember that Vivienne Traill performed her in the original play, so that might cause a touch of confusion). It further gives TDP debuts to the characters of Cedric, played by Martin Harder, Olaf, played by Ricky himself, and Golgarach, played by Jake Collins.

Please note that even if you've already read the text of the Missing Scene that was posted last summer, it was only a first draft, and the scene in its completed form is substantially different.

For the time being, we are taking no strict position on whether the scene should be considered 'canonical' or part of the AP continuity. It probably makes no difference either way, but in favour, it does offer possible explanations for why Cedric and Lillith disappeared after season two, as well as answering the long-running question of what effect the SHOVEL spell would have had.

Enjoy 2015. I mean, someone will have to.

Back when the script for Famous For Retreating was still in development in 2004/5 (oh man, was it really that long ago?!?) one of the scenes rather sadly ended up having to be cut out altogether for reasons of time and story-pacing. The text for that scene went missing around the time the recording work was done.

However, Ricky Temple, the guy who wrote the scene, has discovered that he had the scene hidden away on his hard drive all this time, and has agreed to make the text available for everybody to read. If you'd like to read it, here it is; -

http://dunshelmplayers.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/the-legendary-lost-scene-from-famous-for-retreating/

(And yes, we do realise the scene needs redrafting; that goes without saying, as it was part of the very first draft of the script.)

Interesting aspects of this scene, had it been retained, are that it would have meant Motley making his debut on TDP right from the outset, instead of having to wait until Sidriss The Confused & The Philosopher's Sojourn in 2011, and there would have been a wall monster in audio plays many years before they were introduced to the medium in the Knightmare Audio Series.

Whether the scene should be considered 'canonical' is debatable, but as it is part of the project, it does merit being published.

The teams would represent their schools, it would also educate kids these days. Just like it worked for us it can work for them. There is a lot of corruption in kids these days...

Could this possibly be a step toward a Knightmare Return do you think?

Um, nice to dream I guess, but I very much doubt it.

Keep up the good work fellas

We'll do our best!

I'm impressed by all your work HStorm an to the others. Could this possibly be a step toward a Knightmare Return do you think?

Keep up the good work fellas

Two more plays, I can confirm, will be recorded in April, although mixing and editing is such a long, slow, and intricate process that when they're released can only be guessed at.

There are several other, less ambitious projects in the pipeline in the shorter term, which may or may not be completed over the next month (or ever). Watch this space.

listened to the first audio play a while ago and boy did it make me smile... I was only 2 or 3 when first saw Knightmare so didn't really understand at that age... but as I got older I loved it and the audioplay really says a lot about the fans, especially the actors who do the parts... love Lord Fear's background story and the background of Stiletta... thats something that Knightmare seemed to miss out... the background stories of its characters...

I guess its like any good series though, you watch the episodes (gameshow or otherwise), and then you start to ask questions about the characters, IE how did all this start... like with stuff like TMNT they had the episode of that cartoon series to explain "how it all began"

The audioplay gives you a small insight into a great idea from Tim Child, and even.... dare I say it, (no offence Tim, we all love/adore/admire/and all the other words of that meaning your original idea), gives Knightmare a whole new spin... they might not bring it back as a gameshow, which is still a shame, but who knows, the work the actors put into the audioplay, when, (note the use of 'when; HStorm hehe,), when the next audio plays are created and released, we might one day persuade television to create Knightmare as a serial drama or something, they had xena, hercules and now stuff like supernatural etc. so why not Knightmare?

And as for late next year, or whenever you guys have the time and resources to complete and release the next one(s).... guess I just have to accept fine art takes a lot of time, as evidenced by the first audioplay and man is it great... (don't know if I could help, but if I can let me know, and I will certainly try all I can to help),

As Brother Strange would say, (if he has this one in his big book, and if it can be counted as a proverb... yep you guessed it I'm a bit thick LOL); Everything comes to he (and she of course ladies ) who waits

Danny

Sue McPherson does a great Heggatty

From feedback we've received, there seems to be a consensus that Sue's portrayal of Heggatty was the performance that most closely resembled the character as seen in the TV series.

Keep it up

Two more plays should (gah, 'should', what a scary word!) be available late next year.

Keep it up

Anyway, we still don't know when the CD version will be ready unfortunately, as there are serious technical problems with it, but Snowcat's still working on it.

The torrent, by the way, has been taken down due to inactivity; basically nobody used it at all. Ah well...

The original FFR script has 20 different scenes that were each recorded in seperate Pro-Tools. I've currently got as far as scene 15 (About halfway through Fears Tale) and meandering on at about a scene a week completed and bounced down.

'fraid real life intruding on the fun. 'One week' in this case being around 4-5 hours actually spent at the console but will try to get this done and out ASAP. Been hanging around the ether for long enough...

Thanks to everyone for their patience. It'll be rewarded when the time is right.

What I will do in the meantime is start a CDROM release of the MP3 version; a few people with narrowband connections have been having trouble downloading the play because it just takes too long. So I will copy the MP3 files, with a higher bitrate, to some CDROMs and despatch them to those who are having problems downloading. If you want to receive one of these, please send your address details to the KMRAMDRAM email address above.

And HStorm, I think there' s a special PUNishment reserved for you

Actually, I consider this a fine achievement on my part. Managing to miss a joke, and to explain the joke concurrently takes some doing!

Stirling work

Well it would be, seeing where half the crew came from...

Feeble joke, sorry"

Well it was meant as a joke from me but if you want to take the credit for its' feebleness instead of me then go right ahead!

Continuing the bard anologies a step further the work is rar from being known as the well known 'Scottish Tragedy' I think it could well be classed as 'the mostly Scottish triumph'!