I’ve just watched the first episode of a new BBC series, Bonekickers. The climax involved a sword fight on abseiling ropes dangling above a room of burning crucifixes (including the one true cross) hidden beneath an ancient dovecote. As you might guess, that’s not a sentence that appears anywhere else in the history of the …
A few weeks back, I idly suggested a group game based on an attack of zombies, spreading through twitter – joking that it would be a variant on an old Stanislavski exercise. Today those neurons bashed back together and I went looking for the source: an exercise in An Actor Prepares exploring imagination and improvised …
Following the London-based Hide and Seek, there’s the Interesting Games Festival – part of the Bristol Festival and running 19th-21st September 2008. They’re still accepting applications for games up until the 15th of this month.
My planned visit to Hide and Seek turned into a few hours on Sunday afternoon – missing most of what I had planned to attend because of the magic of theatre – but still enough time to dip into Sleeveface, catch a little of London-as-Tokyo and a too-short taste of the Lost Sport of Olympia. …