Peter Kenny
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Weird to win
I won the small Happenstance poetry competition about dreams, with a short poem called Formication. I don’t win competitions: fact. So it felt weird to be contacted by Helena Nelson at Happenstance, who publishes my pal Charlotte Gann among others, to be told I’d won a small competition. It’s made me have all these wild thoughts.…
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Poetry readings with Pighog and Telltale coming soon
I have two poetry readings in the pipeline in about a month’s time. In Brighton, and London. Here are the deets: N.B. DATE CHANGE Wednesday October 25, 2017 7:30 pm — The Nightingale Room, Grand Central, 29-30 Surrey St, Brighton BN1 3PA Pighog poetry evening with Charlotte Gann, Peter Kenny and another guest TBA – Tickets on the door…
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‘A Glass of Nothing’ still half full
So… Edinburgh. Blimey, it was an exhausting. In fact so exhausting, it has taken me two weeks to get around to writing about it… Edinburgh utterly dwarfs the Brighton Festival, and the competition for bums (on seats) is ferocious. Nothing beats first hand experience of publicising and flying for your play, sticking together as a unit…
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Edinburgh: dress rehearsal and preview night
Tickets here for A Glass of Nothing – a show where dreams come true Friday 4th — open dress rehearsal. At our team breakfast we decided that whatever happens in Edinburgh, we are already winners by being part of it. For a winner, however, I felt twitchy. Doing things helped. Flyering and dropping posters of at…
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Brighton Blonde Productions arrive in Edinburgh to stage ‘A Glass of Nothing’
Tickets here for A Glass of Nothing — a dark comedy about the selfie generation. Above Matt Colborne spots one of our posters outside the Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh. Up at an ungodly ten past five, a taxi to Brighton station to catch the 06:19 up to St Pancras. At King’s cross we met Kitty and…
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Final preparations for Edinburgh
So we’re taking A Glass of Nothing to Edinburgh. Exciting, yes of course, but the truth has dirtier fingernails. Our previous shows have all been close at hand, so organising a run in another country is harder. Only one final rehearsal to go now down in Brighton. Beth and Kitty now imperious in their roles.…
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A dark comedy for the selfie generation
My play A Glass of Nothing starts with Beth Symons, below, searching for likes online. Other than that, what else can a lonely twenty-something woman with no money, poor housing, and dismal prospects do? She has to stay at home and gulp a glass of nothing, that’s what. A Glass of Nothing is built around a classic…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 