Tag: Drama
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Arts Marketing: 50 Easy-To-Do Tips
First things first – 50 tips, easy-to-do or otherwise, is a fuck-load of tips. I’ve been wanting to write a big tips list* for ages – I’ve a draft folder which has around 40 arts marketing articles in, all at different stages of disarray. I thought about combining them in this article, instead, reading them…
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Resolutions 2015
I could never quite make my mind up if resolutions are a brilliant idea or a terrible idea. On the one hand they can motivate behaviour, change and achievement, but then at the same time they can also be monumentally depressing when, at 2am on Jan 1st you find you’ve already broken four of your…
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It’s Always Right Now…
This weekend I popped over to Manchester to see the excessively talented Daniel Kitson perform his show, It’s Always Right Now, Until It’s Later. The show is based around the lives of two people, William and Caroline, two people who meet only for the briefest moment, but live full extraordinary lives which are exceptional because of…
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What next…
So that’s it, the show’s over, the responses are in, the reviews are slowly circulating and it’s back to reality… Floating was good fun to do, we got some great reactions, a couple of nurses (who I don’t know!) posted comments on the page and Unity Theatre’s wall: “absolutely stunning show tonight. It was strange…
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Floating rehearsal – Day Two
So we’re on day two of rehearsals and the script’s been tightened up considerably. I think as a writer you never get a complete idea of how a piece will work until someone external picks the script apart a little and asks the awkward questions. I have to admit this can be the hardest part…
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Floating rehearsal – Day One
As part of my job as a theatre marketing person I invariably find myself berating companies for not keeping an adequate record of the process they’ve gone though in creating a new piece of work. Alas I suspect I shall fall foul of my own demands, but in order to appease myself I’m going to…
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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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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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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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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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Film Review: JCVD
Some actors are born great, some acquire greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. However for some the road is less easily trodden, they glimpse greatness, come crashing down, appear in Streetfighter the movie (alongside Kylie) before being seemingly cast away on the scrapheap of actors who we laugh at for their previous errors.…