Monthly Archives: June 2008

london weekend, survived

Exhausting but productive weekend: two Penny Dreadful shows at Greenwich, and a very quick visit to the Hide and Seek festival on the south bank. A proper update to follow, but here are some production photos for Aeneas Faversham Forever taken by our lighting designer and technical director, Neil Hobbs. For gluttons, my grainy phonecam

fringe comedy picks

Two recommendations for comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe festival: 1. Firmly at the top of my list is the Pajama Men – Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez – who are back at the Fringe after a year’s break. Go and see them. I first saw them in the aircraft-hangar of the George Square Theatre back

not gone, not forgotten

I think have to disagree with Lyn Gardner‘s assessment that post-’68 political and radical theatre is undocumented and in danger of being forgotten – not least because the majority of companies she references (Red Ladder, Joint Stock, Monstrous Regiment, Inter-Action and Welfare State) turned up on the course I taught at Glasgow University last semester.

webserver heads south for summer

The edfringe.com website is dead in the water, which can only mean one thing: tickets for the Fringe have gone on sale. EDIT: It’s working now. A temporary problem with the trucks in the tubes, no doubt.