Dulce et Decorum Est: The Unknown Soldiers Last time, I wrote about how the title of the show came about. At this point, a lot of further discussion with Director and Designer Penny Gkritzapi ensued to try to sort out exactly what kind of story we would try to tell.… Continue reading
Dulce et Decorum Est: The Unknown Soldiers Last time, I wrote about how the theme of “The Unknown Soldiers” became a thing for this year’s show. Which is all very well, of course, but it isn’t a show, is it? The way that I write is actually quite simplistic in… Continue reading
Dulce et Decorum Est: The Unknown Soldiers In the first post in this short series, I talked a little about how the process of creating a Fringe show starts (for me, anyway). I should say that there are really two processes that are separate but related. There’s the artistic process,… Continue reading
Dulce et Decorum Est: The Unknown Soldiers How does a Fringe show come into being? This isn’t a question I get asked directly, but I think that if I answer it I’ll be coming close to answering several questions that I do get asked over and over – questions such… Continue reading
My latest one-man show will premiere at Edinburgh Fringe 2017. It’s directed once again by Penny Gkritzapi, and with 10 Rillington Place I’m taking a different look at a story that has previously only been partly told. Set between the condemned cell at Pentonville Prison in July 1953, and the flat at the… Continue reading
In 2015 Kayleigh Haywood, a 15 year old girl from Leicestershire, answered a message online from someone she didn’t know, a man in his late 20’s, Luke Harlow. Only 15 days later she was raped and murdered by Stephen Beadman, Harlow’s neighbour. In June 2016, Harlow was sentenced to 12… Continue reading
For reasons that are too tedious to go into, I’m – intermittently – playing a woman. This raises a whole set of challenges – in acting, of course, but also in other ways. I mean, where do you start as a man trying to portray a woman? The only “female”… Continue reading
Being an actor is precarious at best. There are a lot of stats touted around about how few actors are able to make a living these days – and by and large, they’re true. Fees are falling in a totally unregulated industry. Anyone – literally anyone – can call themselves… Continue reading
Breaking News! My latest one-man show, Abberline’s Artefact will be heading North of the border in August for a short run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Directed by Penny Gkritzapi, I’ll be appearing at The Space Triplex Studio from the 22nd to the 26th of August. Tickets for the show will… Continue reading
I just spent a few days filming for a new silent movie called “Book of the Dead”, directed by Hannah McKibbin, in the oldest church in London. St Bartholomew the Great, (http://greatstbarts.com/index.html) fondly known as St. Bart’s, began life as an Augustinian Priory in the 12th Century. Now it’s an… Continue reading
