Author: Sam Freeman
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Game Review: Battlefield 3
I have always been a sports game sort of guy. Sensible Soccer, through every version of Fifa via a brief excursion to Pro Evo, a momentary glance at Brian Lara with a hint of Top Spin and an ill fated visit to the Winter Olympics on the original Playstation. I’d never even played a first-person…
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Podcast – Episode Two!
The second Dark Laughs podcast looking at local news from around the UK. Featuring Sam Freeman and Tim Franklin! With Tim leading the series 1 – 0 how will the tension be managed in this all new episode. Listen to Sam and Tim talk about uncanny coincidences in Kendal, toilet weed, library closures and Sam’s method of…
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Review: On The Edge
For frequent readers of this blog (which mostly seems to be Unity Theatre staff and my sister… There will be a post about pizza at some point…) you’ll know I had a show on at The Lantern Theatre a few weeks ago! It was nice to see my work onstage with a fresh perspective! I…
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Podcast – Episode One!
The first Dark Laughs podcast looking at local news from around the UK. Featuring Sam Freeman and Tim Franklin! Listen to Sam and Tim talk about lightning that may have struck, thieves stealing the most unlikely things, terrible donkey based stories, and a complete lack of artistic integrity or comic flair! Episode one so let…
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Hitting the target – Brochures
I hadn’t written any particularly niche marketing-centric posts for a while so I thought it was high time to inflict a glazed expression on all your faces, make you wonder where it all went wrong and how life had led you to read this, look around the office and consider whether you can end it…
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Game Review: Fifa 12
I hate to say it, but I’m here now, and, well, I have a problem, an addiction. I don’t like confessing it, maybe it’s churlish, pathetic, maybe it isn’t, I don’t know. All I know if it’s here to stay and there’s no escape. I’m addicted to losing. It started in the late 90s with…
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Donkey Still Recovering
I was sat, as is my will, on my laptop drinking mocha in a cafe on Friday afternoon. A rare afternoon off and an opportunity to catch up with some writing – continuing with an increasingly epic monologue about the NHS and Clinical Care Psychosis – it’s a laugh a minute. Unfortunately I wasn’t catching…
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On The Edge
It’s a weird experience I’m going through this week. I’ve had an odd ‘career’ as a writer so far to date. Produced work includes a show in a restaurant about cous cous, and a studio show with a panda suit, necrophilia jokes and, quite naturally lots of eerie silences. In common with everything I’ve done…
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Small Scale Segmentation
Part of the role of any arts manager is to examine and develop the way resources are used in the most efficient way possible so as to address and interact with the widest possible audience. Theatre’s have a historical attachment to the printed programme of events. The what’s on guide / brochure is a staple…
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The Failed Writer – Chapter One
Chapter One – To Edinburgh There is, I suspect, nothing more pleasurable in the entire world than travelling by train. More specifically travelling in a massively overcrowded train where, against the odds, you’ve managed to find yourself in first class (paying only for a standard fare ticket) with a cold beer, tray of Bakewell tarts…
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Comedy Review: Edinburgh 2011
Glenn Wool – Brilliant stand up from Canadian stand-up Glenn Wool. A little known comedian in the UK his subject matter is all that stands between him and the nicely polished pleasantness of “Live at the Apollo” or “Comedy Roadshow”. And thank god. If ever there was a comedian born to talk about anal examination in…
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Comedy Review: Andrew Bird’s Village Fete
Edinburgh Festival 2011 The measure of success for any performer should be their ability to effect an audience, manipulate them and create an experience that is unique but also managed with intent and conviction. Andrew Bird works hard from the start to get his audience on his side an succeeds epically. There are few comedians I…
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Comedy Review: The Axis Of Awesome
Edinburgh Festival 2011 One of the great things about the festival is the contrast in performances, styles, venues and atmospheres. Surely there are few other places where you can go from an underground basement room with six other people watching a Geordie comedian flogging his comedy heart and soul out for little noticeable effect to…
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Comedy Review: Bridget Christie
Edinburgh Festival 2011 – Housewife Surrealist I was standing, as is my will to do, yesterday at the Virgin half-price ticket desk looking for festival bargains while tirelessly trying to avoid the endless repeats of Puppetry of the Penis, Titanic 2 and the many many productions of some second rate Sarah Kane show by undersexed…
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Film Review: The Guard
Sometimes as you get to the end of a long week at work, mentally exhausted, desperate to leave the reality of working life behind as you head into the weekend, tired of tension and stress you need to relax, sit back and laugh. I found myself at the end of a very long week in…
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The Failed Writer – Preface
The preface of any book is usually written after the book has been completed. It’s the section where the author thanks his loyal audience for purchasing this “essential read” and for embarking upon an “emotional rollercoaster” with this the sole occuping project that has filled their lives for the previous few years. They also usually…
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Shared Houses
I’m 26. Now when I became 26 i realised that it meant that I am, as my good friends kindly informed me “closing in on 30”, “life ends after 25” or as one more pessimistic friend, and I use the word friend conditionally said, “getting ready for death.” I’ve found it weird to be honest…