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Friday, 19 April 2013
Friday, 22 March 2013
Creative Theatre Producing. Oh, and Wordpress...
Right. There's a couple of my mates trying to get theatre productions on and having varying degrees of success. I started a new blog called 'Creative Theatre Producing' but I might as well post on here. Although perhaps the title of this blog may not be of much use to those looking for information about putting on a show. Whaddaythink? And can anyone tell me if Wordpress is better than Blogger? Is it hard to learn? More importantly, is it worth the effort? Does Wordpress have extra features? That's a lot of questions!
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- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad. Clever 'ent I!
Location:London Town
Monday, 18 March 2013
A Good Deal in Kent
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| The Royal Hotel. Not too hard to spot |
We thought we'd leave the glorious hustle and bustle of Soho and London and celebrate Mickey's 40th Birthday with a trip to the coast. Mickey works on the National Theatre's production of Warhorse at the New London Theatre in Drury Lane, so he's always in town. Annie (who finished The MouseTrap last year, but lives in Sussex) used her legendary planning powers and arranged for the gang to spend the night in Deal in Kent. Where? Yep, Deal. And it's a little gem. Charles Hawtrey of 'Carry On' film fame lived there, and apart from Marc getting the usual "It's you off Eastenders isn't it!" treatment from a couple of youffs in the train station, it was a very pleasant, if somewhat wet and windy little town.
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| Danny hard at Managing Things. |
We stopped at the Royal Hotel on Beach Street, which is, yes, by the beach. It's run by Shepherd Neame,a good old English Brewery, and Danny, the manager, was a delight.
The town pier isn't the prettiest we've seen, but it used to be a working pier, so that's okay, and there is a coffee shop at then end. We spent most of the afternoon in a cosy little pub on the front and me and a few hardy souls stopped in the boozer to watch the England Rugby team being vaguely embarrassed - I think the word is routed - by Wales in the final game of the 6 Nations. Then to the hotel for dinner, a late night, and Sunday lunch in a pub called The Bohemian. Well, we had to go there
really, didn't we. We were rewarded by various delights including a regular who had a pet pig called Rodney. Rodney Trotter, obviously. Oh, we did laugh! |
| Rodney. Rodney Trotter, obviously |
We ended on on Sunday afternoon in Islington, via Kings Cross at a rather groovy little pub called A Hundred Crows Rising, which has a great little room upstairs and must have one of the weirdest names I've come across in a long time. Have you got any weird pub names?
Monday we slept. A lot. Happy Birthday Mikey.
Thursday, 14 March 2013
90 Not Out!
As a born and bred Brummy, I haven't been 'home' for some time. So today is pretty special because I'm back in Brum and me old man is 90! Pretty good, eh? I also bought this blogging app. So this is a bit of a test. I'm also, by the way, having long and hard thoughts about the future and particularly what I do with blogging. I'm almost considering online marketing! I know....
Anyway, here goes the test!
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad. Clever 'ent I!
Anyway, here goes the test!
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad. Clever 'ent I!
Location:Ravenshaw Lane,,United Kingdom
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Maverick News
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Sunday, 23 December 2012
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A Literary 2012, literally!
Well, what a year 2012 has been. The Silver Jubilee, the Olympics and more importantly (to us anyway) the launch of the London Literary Pub Crawl. It's because we are a not-for-profit charity with no budget that the critical and audience acclaim we've received early on has been so important and so crucial... and so moving. Partly inspired by the Olympics coming to London, I felt a desire - perhaps a passion - to share what I'd found out about the struggle some of the worlds most famous writers went through in their early lives in the capital city. And it's so gratifying to realise there are others who share this passion. So far it's cost everybody involved with this project. The actors, the writers, me - none of us have received a fee and we've turned up and rehearsed at our own cost. But we're doing it because we want to try and avoid the financial hardship the likes of Dylan Thomas, Charles Dickens & Samuel Johnson went through. If we can find an audience we might be able, one day, to give local actors and writers a leg up.
It's very early days for our London tour. But I REALLY want to thank you. As mentioned outside the Soho Theatre, your interest and willingness to buy a ticket for our tour will, literally one day change the literary world!
And that's not a bad thing now, is it...!
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