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.

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Greenwich and beyond..

What a brilliant couple of nights at Greenwich. We had some great audiences in, and some lovely feedback. If you came to see it, would be fab to hear what you thought of it.

Until next time...

Love from Broken Leg Theatre. x

Sunday, 6 May 2012

Nancy treads the boards...

We had a rehearsal on the stage at the New Theatre Royal, Brighton. Which was fab. And Nancy had her first blast on stage.

Without being a pushy mum, I'm hoping that it is the first of many performances.

Next play featuring an 8 month old?

Now where's that number for the baby modeling agency...


It's next week...

It's less than a week to go until My Second Life is on in Greenwich and tickets are selling well. Which is a bit of a double edged sword.

On one hand it's like, 'thank God, we're not going to be performing to an empty theatre.'

But at the same time, it's a bit, 'Oh shit. Please let people like it.'

Well too late now to start panicking!

Deep breaths...

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Nervous!

We are performing in Greenwich next week and the nerves are beginning to show. It is at this stage when my mind starts making me doubt everything and paranoia starts growing like mould on bathroom tiles. Firstly, I convince myself that I don't know any of my lines, not one, especially not the first one. Secondly, as I play two characters, I become certain that at some point I will come on to the stage wearing the wrong clothes, speaking in the wrong accent and talking to the wrong person. Thirdly and finally, I become like a nervous traveller who has to check their passport every two seconds, except with my costume. I have to go back to my bag of clothes regularly and check that nothing has suddenly dissappeared. Where I think a large pink satin skirt is going to run off too in the dark of the night, I don't know, but I check all the same.
I know it will be, as they say, alright on the night, but nerves are not rational. They sneak up on you in your dreams and create the biggest nightmare scenarios. I was once dreamed, before an exam, that when I got there I had to answer about a hundred pages on Thomas the Tank Engine. I hadn't revised that!
Right, I'm off to read my script and check that my shoes haven't run off for a new life in the sun.
Jade