BEWLEYS has come up with a creative, and lucrative way of channelling all that energy from your next caffeine rush. This week it announced a play writing competition with a top prize of £2,500 for the winning play. Aside from the money, the best part at it is that the play will be produced in the Bewleys Cafe Theatre by a professional theatre company, and it will travel to Edinburgh as part of that city's prestigious fringe festival.
"Absolutely anyone can enter," says Veronica Campbell of Campbell Catering, which owns the ever expanding restaurant chain. "The only restrictions are practical ones. There can't be more that three people in the cast, the play shouldn't be longer than 45 minutes and it should be set in a cafe." Veronica is on the judging panel alongside writer Frank McGuinness and actor Bairbre Ni Chaoimh.
This weekend there is a gathering of the Campbell clan at their North Dublin home for the wedding of Colin Campbell, the only one of Paddy and Veronica's children to, actually work in the family firm. Yesterday in front of 250 guests he married graphic designer Rionach d'hOir and after the Campbell catered party, the newlyweds headed off to Galway to honeymoon in Oughterard.