Tag: Theatre

New show! Halloween double bill

It's autumn so it must be show time! This time around we're putting on a double bill by Simon A. Brown of one original play and one Edwardian classic.

Bothy is a modern chiller set in a remote Scottish bothy. Who is that banging on the door in the middle of the night? And why do they have half a bottle of whisky but no walking boots?

The Monkey's Paw is W. W. Jacobs classic telling of a careful what you wish for fable. Previously adapted by The Simpsons Simon has put his own spin on a horrific tale of magic and unintended consequences.

Show week is 30th October to 2nd November and you can get your tickets here.

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A new play, A Misunderstanding

The approach of summer means that it will soon be time for the Crouch End Festival once more. This year I’m producing an adapted play amongst a trio of short original works by members of the Crouch End Players to be performed once more (we hope!) at the Great Northern Railway Tavern. The piece I’ve…

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Cruel Comedy

Cruel Comedy is a double bill of short plays by the French anarchist writer Octave Mirbeau from his set of Farces et Moralités, first published in 1904. Mirbeau was a pretty savage critic of the society in which he wallowed and I hope I've carried through some of the anger and incredulity that informs Interview, a satire on the press of his day which we've updated to be a take on social media as Snoop. Les Amants - which I've translated as Lovers - is on the other hand a satire on the personal rather than the public.

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Translating Sartre

Looking at my diary 16th April 2020 was a very French day. As well as listening to Building a Library on Fauré and reading Julian Jackson’s biography of de Gaulle, it was also the day where I noted, ‘Started Huis Clos translation.’ What brought that on? Well, the first entry in that diary reads: Today,…

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Resto 17 Théâtre de Poche, Montparnasse

We took the salad of the day and a big planche of cheese with a couple of glasses of Chablis on the side. The salad turned out mostly to be pesto-stirred pasta with a few bits of veg secreted within. Palatable but not exactly what we were looking for. The cheese on the other hand was five varieties of the runny shiznit with a generous helping of rustic bread alongside - definitely a better option. The wine was too warm.

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