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Actors with comdey chops wanted
Beth Symons, pictured in one of her calmer moments above, has got the casting underway for our play A Glass of Nothing. So if this is you, then get in touch with Beth using the email below, or via this site. Brighton Blonde Productions is a new theatre company based in Brighton, and set to take…
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A Glass of Nothing
Just wanted put something on here about a comedy I’m working on for the Brighton Fringe Festival next year. Last year I went to see a rehearsal for a production and grew fascinated by watching an actor drink endlessly from an empty glass. I wrote a bit about it here and now that random thought is…
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Reading Jan 7th Poetry Cafe
Here’s another Telltale Press event to jolt you into 2016 wide-eyed with wonder. I’ll be reading with Jack Underwood, snapped up by Fabers like a hot kipper, Kitty Coles whose poems are charged with mythic power, plus Cartoon Kid and Telltale favourite Siegfried Baber. A shout out to Andrew King whose photograph of me reading…
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When Love Came To The Cartoon Kid
Last night in Bath saw the official launch of When Love Came to the Cartoon Kid, the Telltale Press pamphlet from Siegfried Baber. Success has many fathers, so I’m delighted to point out that I had a small part, alongside Robin Houghton and Telltale Press, in the launch of what is a extremely assured debut by a…
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Forking paths and unknown territory
Two books can clink against each other like flints. Tho books from the 1940s produced a spark that has set me thinking about the staleness lurking in contemporary writing. Beguling Borges and his forking paths The first is Fictions (1944) a collection of short fictions by Jorge Louis Borges, which collected the splendidly-titled The Garden of…
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Stanza Bonanza – 25th June, Poetry Café, Covent Garden
I find myself pulling on the jersey for Brighton in a Brighton vs Palmer’s Green event, a ‘Stanza Bonanza’ at the Poetry Café near Covent Garden. Entry’s free and everyone is welcome. It starts at 7:00 and poets will be bludgeoning one another with their deathless poems till about 9.30pm. I for one am looking forward to it. Full event details…
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Moby Dick in a Paul Smith Window
In the window of Paul Smith in Covent Garden this lunchtime. Not the greatest photograph, but a white whale shaped stapler on a large piece of crumpled blue paper filled the entire window. So elegant and simple. Managed to speak volumes about the Paul Smith brand without a single item of clothing. Class.
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Brighton Fringe – Relationship Status: Desperate
In the week or so since I saw Relationship Status: Desperate I have been forcibly reminded of the sheer power of getting off your butt making something happen. Beth Symons, as well as being my new stepdaughter, is also an actress with absolutely natural comedic chops. In partnership with her fellow actor and writing partner Emily Mawer, they staged their…
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Anything but the kitchen sink
This morning, as I cleaned up some cat sick, I found myself thinking about realism. The sick was still warm and prawny, which is the kind of detail you need if you are going to be realistic. Such details enable us to clearly imagine things. Without wanting to, for example, I’m sure you can imagine…
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Theme and variations one and two
Like some kind of ghoul, I am usually unfilmable. And the recordings we made of This Concert will fall in love with you all went wrong in mysterious ways –for example the sound files recorded by Glen Capra were on his laptop, stolen in Northern Ireland. But happily we have just fixed the video camera…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 