Monday, 28 March 2011
Dromos
We are excited at the prospect of potentially perfoming in the Dromos Festival in July at The Hawth, Crawley. We've just sent off our application so fingers crossed they'll say yes to BLT and we'll be off to the dizzy heights of West Sussex! Watch this space for more details! Other exciting news is that Anna is expecting a little bambino with her lovely partner Ben - we're all really thrilled and can't wait to have a Broken Leg mascott to take on tour with us (and help with the marketing!!). With Brighton Fringe Festival fast approaching we are looking forward to catching some members of the company in various performances throughout the month of May. You can sample he delights of Jade in 'Gunshot' at The Marlborough Theatre on 10th, 11th, 17th & 18th May. We're also looking forward to seeing Rachel Blackman in 'The Growing Room' and a fantastic show that Anna and Emily saw at Edinburgh Fringe last year 'You're not like the other one's Chrissy' performed by Caroline Horton at the Nightingale Theatre. It's going to be a busy few months but we'll keep you all posted with our plans, reviews and any other exciting company developments!
Monday, 3 January 2011
Well, here we are in 2011 and about to embark on an ace and exciting year. I hope you had a fab Christmas. We all put the theatre company on the backburner for a few weeks to take up some full time festivities, but are now ready to swing into action again.
Our lovely Alex will be going to New York with a show while Ben has been performing in Brighton late last year.
Anna is starting to write the ending of My Second Life with Alice ready for the rural tour as well as a radio play, Running For Brenda (keep you updated about that.)
Emily is getting married this year to Nick so that's going to be pretty exciting.
And everyone else is hunky dory. Right, enough of the bad circular style update. We'll be in touch soon.
Love Broken Leg Theatre.
Our lovely Alex will be going to New York with a show while Ben has been performing in Brighton late last year.
Anna is starting to write the ending of My Second Life with Alice ready for the rural tour as well as a radio play, Running For Brenda (keep you updated about that.)
Emily is getting married this year to Nick so that's going to be pretty exciting.
And everyone else is hunky dory. Right, enough of the bad circular style update. We'll be in touch soon.
Love Broken Leg Theatre.
Monday, 6 December 2010
Let the touring begin!
So last month we dipped our toe into the world of touring ready to plunge in head first next summer.
We have been signed up by Making Tracks who organise touring in West Sussex. Each year they create a menu, but instead of listing food it is filled with theatre, that said, we are all a little bit tasty in Broken Leg Theatre! But, bad puns aside, the menu they accumulate is filled with a fantastic variety of children's theatre, music acts, traditional shows and forward thing theatre such as our own show, that the venues around West Sussex can choose from.
In November we were invited to go to Petworth and give a short preview performance to a few of the venues' representatives. So we all bundled our costumes into two cars, grabbed some sandwiches from a garage on route and then travelled through the trees that lined our route from East to West Sussex.
While we were at Petworth we treated really well with free drink and cakes, and not any old cakes, mini cakes! In my opinion everything is just a little better when it is mini.
Our performance went down really well and generated lots of questions which is always great. The worse sort of theatre is the type that is forgotten instantly. I think even our little snippet got people thinking.
So now it's a waiting game. We have to now wait as though we were in a kitchen waiting for the orders to be shouted out, one scampi, one lemon sole and one Broken Leg Theatre please. Yes chef!
We could get one show, we could get ten, we just have to wait and see. I really hope we get lots as if they are all as fun as this foray into the world of touring and filled with as many bad jokes and giggles it should promise to be a great summer.
We have been signed up by Making Tracks who organise touring in West Sussex. Each year they create a menu, but instead of listing food it is filled with theatre, that said, we are all a little bit tasty in Broken Leg Theatre! But, bad puns aside, the menu they accumulate is filled with a fantastic variety of children's theatre, music acts, traditional shows and forward thing theatre such as our own show, that the venues around West Sussex can choose from.
In November we were invited to go to Petworth and give a short preview performance to a few of the venues' representatives. So we all bundled our costumes into two cars, grabbed some sandwiches from a garage on route and then travelled through the trees that lined our route from East to West Sussex.
While we were at Petworth we treated really well with free drink and cakes, and not any old cakes, mini cakes! In my opinion everything is just a little better when it is mini.
Our performance went down really well and generated lots of questions which is always great. The worse sort of theatre is the type that is forgotten instantly. I think even our little snippet got people thinking.
So now it's a waiting game. We have to now wait as though we were in a kitchen waiting for the orders to be shouted out, one scampi, one lemon sole and one Broken Leg Theatre please. Yes chef!
We could get one show, we could get ten, we just have to wait and see. I really hope we get lots as if they are all as fun as this foray into the world of touring and filled with as many bad jokes and giggles it should promise to be a great summer.
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Time to start thinking about the next play. Eek. I'm meeting up with Dave Waller on Monday to have a chat about writing something together. Massively looking forward to getting stuck in. We met up in a wierd pub in Kings Cross early on in the summer to have a think about what the play would be about. After about 6 pints the loose idea was developed. The scene is set in a) a charity shop, b) a record shop or c) a supermarket. The story is about how the same situation can be interpreted completely differently depending on whether a you're a boy or a girl. We couldn't think of any examples as we were a bit too pissed and were totally misinterpreting what each other was saying.
Don't think that one's going to be an award winner. Try and get something written down before I get stuck into the gin on Monday.
Don't think that one's going to be an award winner. Try and get something written down before I get stuck into the gin on Monday.
Friday, 10 September 2010
Em and I have had a lovely coffee with gorgeous Charlotte Semlyen from South East Dance who lent us her business brain to talk about the company and ask the boring questions about insurance and stuff.
I say it was a lovely coffee, it was lovely company, yes, but the coffee left a bit to be desired. Anyway, we're a bit more up to speed now about financey stuff as well. Which is no bad thing seeing as Emily budgeted that everyone would be paying 50p to see the show in the festival last year. Which is less than the cost of a Mars bar (I hear).
And (and this isn't really an and, more of a big sigh) I'm going to be turning 32 on Monday. So let this be the best next year for the company. Wrinkly old fingers crossed.
I say it was a lovely coffee, it was lovely company, yes, but the coffee left a bit to be desired. Anyway, we're a bit more up to speed now about financey stuff as well. Which is no bad thing seeing as Emily budgeted that everyone would be paying 50p to see the show in the festival last year. Which is less than the cost of a Mars bar (I hear).
And (and this isn't really an and, more of a big sigh) I'm going to be turning 32 on Monday. So let this be the best next year for the company. Wrinkly old fingers crossed.
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
So we're sat off in the back garden enjoying last of the summer rays (and wine!) trying to talk strategically about the next step for broken leg. The second bottle of wine is lubricating some fab ideas. So, if you are a sugar daddy who has a few thousand to spare in return for a cheap bottle of wine and smelly cheese with the company of a couple of 30 somethings (Emily that is, Anna's still quite young) then please e-mail we'redesperateandskint@hotmail.com.
We look forward to hearing from you. Or seeing your porsche parked outside.
We look forward to hearing from you. Or seeing your porsche parked outside.
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.
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.
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