We're 21 years old. Shakespeare is celebrating with us.

Celebrate our 21st Birthday with Half Price Tickets and the chance to WIN £50 worth of West End Tickets from our friends at Theatre Tokens!
We're celebrating with TWO great shows, 50% OFF for you and FREE ENTRY in a draw for £50 of Theatre Tokens! (And a party. But more about that next time!)


The Maverick Theatre Company presents

Henry V - Lion of England by Nick Hennegan

"A theatrical tour-de-force"
The List.
Weekends at the Wheatsheaf Pub.
Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, London W1T 1JB.
25 April -14 June.

21 years ago Nick Hennegan wrote and directed his version of Shakespeare's classic in a pub in Birmingham. Its success gave birth to The Maverick Theatre Company with its mission of accessible theatre. Since then the show has toured the UK, Ireland and the US and been widely acclaimed. It's a show supported by sound, lights, music and special effects. But now we're going to present it 'unplugged' in a small function room at the Wheatsheaf Pub in Fitzrovia, W1. On its 21st Birthday, Maverick goes back to its roots with an emerging director, Katie Merritt. And as a regular supporter we'd like to invite you to join us with a...

HALF-PRICE TICKET OFFER FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS + Free Entry to a draw to win £50 of Theatre Tokens!
50% OFF THE ADVERTISED PRICE OF ALL TICKETS FOR HENRY V - LION OF ENGAND.
And all bookings will be entered in a free draw to win £50 of Theatre Tokens! Insert the code Henry01 when booking. See HenryVplay.com.

AND, in the spirit of Shakespeare and our 21st Birthday, we're giving 50% OFF all tickets for our second promenade theatre performance...

Shakespeare's Tavern Tour. Starts 4 April, 2015. 1pm.

And every Saturday at 1pm from Borough High Street. The performance passes some of the most memorable areas of London and includes the first Tudor theatre on the South Bank, Shakespeare's Globe, the Bard's first London flat, Bear Baiting and Chaucer! If you liked the London Literary Pub Crawl, you'll love this! See ShakepeareTavernTour.com

And big BIG thanks to The Fitzrovia Partnership Business Improvement District for supporting The London Literary Pub Crawl!

Shakespeare's tour is every Saturday from 4th April, 2015. For 50% discount and a chance to WIN £50 of Theatre Tokens, enter code LLPC01 when booking!

And don't forget our weekly 'Literary London' radio show podcast with Nick Hennegan.


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That's (Animal Farm) Showbiz!

Bleak (Animal Farm rights) House.

Bummer!  We had the rights to perform George Orwell's Animal Farm for all of 8 weeks, till the 'principle agent' changed their mind and decided to cancel our license.  It probably means a commercial theatre producer has decided to try a production. Which is good for us fans of Orwell, but not so good for WE fans of Orwell.  

A bit like when we performed 'Under Milk Wood' in the Wheatsheaf in Fitzrovia, London, the pub where Dylan Thomas met his wife.  It was commercially stupid to mount such a large production in such a small room, but it was the 60th anniversary of Dylan's death. And it was the pub where he met... oh, I've mentioned that.  It was about the sprit of the production, the emotion of the moment.  And not about the money.  I'm not sure our 9 shows in a pub would have rocked the commercial rights holder, but that's Animal Farm showbiz.

And it means our next full theatre show will be the Maverick Theatre Company's 21st Birthday show - Henry V - Lion of England, in April.  And there's no problems with the rights for that.  I wrote it myself!  With a bit of help from Shakespeare, of course.  I might consider cancelling the licence.  But I doubt it...

Dylan, my Dylan...

It's been an exciting time - the centenary of the Welsh Wizzard Dylan Thomas. I've been slightly involved with The Dylan Thomas In Fitzrovia Festival. It launched this week.














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National Poetry Day - have a go!

I've been spending a lot of time recently with the poetry of Dylan Thomas and numerous writers for the London Literary Pub Crawl and the forthcoming Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia Weekend in London. More about that later.  But in spite of the genius of Thomas, Heany and dozens of others, I've found I quite like writing poetry.  I've no idea of technical form or how to do it or even why I like writing it, but it's an interesting way of encapsulating an emotion or feeling.  And without realising it, I've been scribbling bits of verse for years.

I found this in an old notebook, written in a curry house on the eve of leaving Birmingham to come to London full time to work at Shakespeare's Globe and attend Uni for the first time in 2007.  It's my little offering for National Poetry Day!  It's a bit of fun.  Have a go yourself!

Breaking up, Birmingham.



No more beloved Brummie Heaths,
no more, my shell-suit sweeties.

No more green corporation pride,
for I, alas, must leave thee.

Leave Shylet Spice, eleven rides
and don't forget the Billesley.

But I’ll be back, you know I will,
unless I shag new city.

An experiment in Podcasting

I'm having a right old game trying to get my Resonance 104.4FM podcasts on itunes.  Mainly because I can't seem to create an RSS feed that works.

So... can I actually Podcast from this Blog? And get it on itunes, etc?


Let's see shall we.  Here's Eric from New York...

Mav Summer Newsletter

Maverick's Summer Newsletter - Our First E-Book!
August 22, 2014

(I know... Maddie says a newsletter a month and the last one was June. But I've been busy. And now we have Katie. More about her next time!)

Norman The Brummie, Fox Hunting in Kingstanding and Lest We Forget.




What a great summer it's been so far! Although Hyde Park was starting to resemble Australia. The grass had turned yellow and parched. But we're loving the hot weather. And we know it ain't gonna last.

100 years ago it was also an unusual summer. We declared war on Germany and everyone thought it would all be over by Christmas. Tragically, it wasn't.

Maverick has always been about 'real' people so I'm delighted to introduce a Brummy lad who remembers World War One Zeppelin raids! Norman Raybone, born in Aston, Birmingham, was also washing his shirts on board his warship when the Yalta Conference happened a World War later, but between these momentous events, he experienced the death of a baby sister, a gambling habit, poverty, violence and romance.

I love his story. He's not a writer, but a Brummie lad who decided to record his memoirs at the behest of his eldest son. He found writing VERY difficult, but I think it's a Birmingham Angela's Ashes! I've turned it into an e-book called 'Confessions of a Butcher Boy' and we've released it as a preview copy for you to check out for just £1.81! If you know Birmingham you MUST read it. And feel free to leave a review on Amazon - or email me if you find any problems or (too many!) typo errors.

A bit like PALS, I love the notion of sharing our real world stories around... well, the world!

Norman has sadly passed on now, but if Part One goes well, I'll edit and publish Part Two. I think he'd have loved this!

Find Norman on Amazon.


Talking of World War One, I also did a show on Resonance FM about the art, music and poetry of the time. It's here.

The radio show is on holiday, but we're back mid September with an ex-Eastender and an ex-Dr. Who-er!




We've gone Box Office!





Maverick's West End Run (!) The London Literary Pub Crawl is getting ever more popular. We've a new booking system.
See here - 'Tickets'


Thanks so much for your feedback on this newsletter last time. Keep it coming. I love to hear from you. And don’t forget if you are involved in anyway with the literary scene in London, please let me know. Bookclub, festival, events, favourite music to write by, new book... anything.

And news next time about Maverick Theatre performing at the BRITISH MUSEUM!



Love/theatrical hugs,

Nick.
x


Nick Hennegan.
Artistic Director, Producer, Tea-boy and Maddy (and Katie’s) Chum.



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Anniversaries

On this day in 1910, O. Henry died an alcoholic in New York City, aged 47. His last months reflected his fiction as a down-on-his-luck hero.


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