On Friday the Arts Council confirmed our grant for the Forgotten Sporting Heroes Project which means that Fearless Navigators and Mad Jack surfers will now be going ahead in 2011. Hurrah!
Also coming up - possibly the final performance for a while of Dark Tales of Gloucestershire at Palmer Hall, Fairford on October 29th.
It's a great show - good fun and the people who have worked on it have been fantastic but going to give it a rest - mainly because I have a new show planned, bigger, better, weirder but still as silly, lively and funny. Not to be revealed until next year!!
Got two performances for Rememberance Day of Tommy Atkins and The Canary Girl. This is a great emotional and I think honest show about the First World War. Performances at the Jenner Museum at 7.30 p.m. on 11th November and at Museum in the Park on Sunday 14th November at 3.00 p.m.
Monday, 25 October 2010
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Preview performance - Fearless Navigator
The preview performances of this new piece about Howard Blackburn went brilliantly. I had a bit of a loss of confidence in my writing and performance of late but this gave me back some of that. The audience response was brilliant - an audience made up of people from 6 to 60 - possibly best comment being - "Story of a hero, told brilliantly and needs to be told to more people!"
Quietly confident that Mr. Blackburn and I could have a fruitful future!
The aim of the test performance was to see what audiences think it needed and quite agree that it needs sound and lights - need to create more atmosphere. The story's there now to clear up the overall look and tighten the script and performance ready to let it loose on a larger public next year!
Quietly confident that Mr. Blackburn and I could have a fruitful future!
The aim of the test performance was to see what audiences think it needed and quite agree that it needs sound and lights - need to create more atmosphere. The story's there now to clear up the overall look and tighten the script and performance ready to let it loose on a larger public next year!
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Forgotten Sporting Heroes of Gloucestershire
This new project working in partnership with the Gloucestershire Archives and Museum In the Park in Stroud is underway. Four forgotten sporting heroes each with a connection to Gloucestershire have been chosen and a preview/test performance of one - Howard Blackburn who sailed solo across the Atlantic from Gloucester, Massachusetts to Gloucester, England in 1899, despite having lost all his fingers and a number of toes through frostbite - will happen next Wednesday 18th August at the Frith Centre at Gloucester Archives (the anniversary of his epic solo voyage).
Having a few problems making hands where the fingers can be there and then lost through frostbite and with the general staging of the piece - what do I use? what furniture? how much does it need and how much can be the imagination? It's always a debate that you have with theatre in odd environments like an education room but think I've now sussed this.
Two days of rehearsal and then it's on for two performances. Here's hoping it all goes well!
Having a few problems making hands where the fingers can be there and then lost through frostbite and with the general staging of the piece - what do I use? what furniture? how much does it need and how much can be the imagination? It's always a debate that you have with theatre in odd environments like an education room but think I've now sussed this.
Two days of rehearsal and then it's on for two performances. Here's hoping it all goes well!
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