Broken Leg Theatre

Established in 2008 our company performed our first production in the basement of a small café and have since gone on to perform two home-grown plays at the Nightingale Theatre, the Hackney Empire and London’s Greenwich Theatre.

Broken Leg is currently funded by Arts Council England to research our latest production, Three Generations.

Monday 30 August 2010

What a cracking day! The sun's shining outside begging for some hanging out on the beach action, and I'm sat infront of the laptop listening to the ghostbusters sound track trying to do some writing.

The Edinburgh Festival was fantastic! We saw some fab shows (and a couple of duffers) as well as catching up with people who we've worked with through Broken Leg, including George (Karaoke Dave in Eye's down, Pens Ready). We hear Alex (Clive Junior in My Second Life) has done fantastically at the festival, with the show he was performing in winning an award which means they can take the show to New York. Dead proud and quietly jealous!

We are now looking towards the West Sussex Rural Tour next spring. Em and I are meeting on tuesday to get our heads together to work out our next move after a really postive meeting with them.

Right then. Head down, or make a coffee first, then put the washing on, hoover that bit of the carpet under the TV, I never realised how dirty it was, repot the olive tree in the garden, but the second load of washing on.... then I'll definetely get on with some writing.

Friday 6 August 2010

So we're off to Edinburgh this afternoon. Fabulous. Slightly regretting that last glass of wine with dad at 2am this morning, but hey ho. That's the life of an artiste or so I hear. Or at least what happens when you enter into an unexpected drinking competition with your paternal.

So... we're going to meet the man from Forest Fringe while up there, so fingers crossed he'll think we're double ace and let us perform there next year. There's loads of stuff I'd like to see, and loads of stuff we should. What with performers who have worked with us up there doing all manner of shows it's going to be a cram packed few days.

To start it off in true Scottish style we're going to have a couple of pints mid afternoon before catch the train. In a pub below a theatre though so that counts as culture I reckon.

Tuesday 3 August 2010

What a busy week, what with trying to work out how to cram four outfits a day for the Edinburgh Festival into my hand luggage, to a cracking meeting with Making Tracks, the rural touring network for West Sussex, and now we have the show reel for My Second Life on youtube, thanks to Catherine Long and her amazing technical skills. The link to the film is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT2d_6ibsl4
Have a look and let us know what you think... (unless you think it's rubbish, then keep it to yourself if you don't mind!)
Will let you know how we get on at the festival, and what happens with Making Tracks.