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My reading for The Island Review
With my brand new, and attractively-priced Blue Snowball Ice microphone I recorded a reading for The Island Review, with their hashtag #islandreadings. If you’ve not visited their site you should do. It harbours all kinds of good things there. The Remembering Cliffs is an old poem, in fact one I wrote in my twenties, eventually collected in A Guernsey Double (2010)…
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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…
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A Glass of Nothing & We Three Kings
The, ah-hem, sophisticated Brighton Blonde marketing machine is grinding into action. Here is the flyer for my plays at The Marlborough Theatre (tweaked for the interweb). Tickets are available at The Marley’s website here. I am very proud of A Glass of Nothing. I am not someone who lovingly strokes my old work. But plays…
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The Remembering Cliffs in The Island Review
Always nice to see a poem I wrote years ago, crop up again. Of all poems I have written this is a firm favourite, and comes straight from the heart. I wrote it in my late 20s and it has been collected in A Guernsey Double. The photo is me a couple of years ago on…
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Two photos by David McHugh
David took photos of ‘A Glass of Nothing’ for the Argus and the Daily Mail. He has kindly let me use these.
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 