Author Archives: Nick Hennegan

Writer and creator of The London Literary Pub Crawl.com. and a few plays. BohemianBritain.com. Event and Theatre Producer. Done quite a bit on the wireless too!

Theatre at The Tabard, Chiswick, London; Opening night party!

Get down to the brilliant Theatre at The Tabard! You’ll be able to see it from the street!

I wrote and directed my first play – Henry V – Lion of England, a one-person adaptation of Shakespeare’s epic play, in 1992. A working-class kid, who didn’t know Shakespeare, it held no fear for me. We put it on for 1 night at the MAC – Midlands Arts Centre – in April 1992 and it got ‘picked up’ by Starward Ltd. The managers of comedian Jasper Carrott, Phil Cool and others. They took us to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe which kinda changed everything for me.

Us… well, them.. on the set… a lovely after show collection of local Theatre supporters. And actors. And Press. And some famous names.

Which is why, 30 years later, I’m privileged and fortunate to be invited to events like this, the press night of a little known classic, Bell Book And Candle at The Tabard.

A picture. Significant if you see the show!

It’s a great story. The forerunner of the US television hit Bewitched. A kind of reverse romcom, but with magic. To be honest, it’s not a perfect production – review to follow – but it’s a great conceit, and you really should try and see it. It’s heritage is also testimony to the talents of the new leaseholders of the Tabard Theatre, a husband-and-wife team who are, like many at the small-scale end of this business, complete and utter unsung heroes. So get down to the Tabard, grab a pint – and be Bewitched!

Bedford Park. WB Yeats lived here too. Come out of the tube and turn right and keep right. You’ll fall over the Tabard!

Plays Down The Pub! Maverick hits the bar again! 

Hic!

­We’re back down the Pub! 

­A Great Night Out and 10% off if you book with the code MAVERICK before the end of February. 

Performed by two actors playing all 14 characters, Jim Cartwright’s poignant play takes audiences into the world of one working-class pub over the course of one night. Weaving together rich stories full of human emotion, this dark-comedy gives an intimate insight into a variety of characters and will make you laugh, and cry, in equal measure. 

“Jim Cartwright (Road, Little Voice) is one of the mavericks of British theatre” Daily Telegraph. ‘A sharp, salty, quick-fire evocation of the surface gaiety and underlying melancholia of English pub life.” Michael Billington – The Guardian ‘This extraordinarily gifted and original voice… populates the space with broad humour, dry wit and often shudderingly moving poetry’ Time Out 

It’s been nearly 30 years since emerging Director Glenn Bayes directed our highly-acclaimed version of this Cartwright classic in The Billesley Pub, Birmingham. And now emerging Director Richard Woolnough (who also hosts The London Literary Pub Crawl) takes the alcoholic, artistic reins, so to speak! 

We’d LOVE you to join us down the pub again! If you saw our original production in Birmingham, Producer Nick Hennegan has said he’ll buy you a drink! 

Cheers! 

The Gang.

www.MaverickTheatreCompany.com­
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Details and tickets

Theatre comedy down your end!

If anyone knows a local Pub, Club, or Village Hall with a function space prepared to pay £100, Maverick will bring this classic tragi-comedy to you. We keep the door take and you keep the bar take, free p.r and publicity! Bargain! Email tours@mavericktheatre.co.uk or message me. x

Dickens, Calvino and Hugo!

Photo by Lisa Fotios on Pexels.com

Summary:

Nick Hennegan celebrates the birthdays of Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo and a new English translation of Italo Calvino.

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W B Yeats in Dublin and Chiswick, London.

Summary:

Celebrating a new, free, interactive app celebrating the life of Yeats in Chiswick, London, Nick Hennegan found an old recording discussing the poet, live from Dublin. — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bohemianbritain/message

I got a new phone. I might be ‘proper’ again!

Yep! A new iPhone!

Now a new phone might not seem like such a big deal – but it is. If you’re a regular bohemian, you’ll know that one of the first things to suffer for our art tends to be our credit rating. And the last theee times over the years I tried to get a phone contract I was turned down! I had to rely on gifts and hand-me-downs!

Until now! I must be doing something right, because I’ve been given a three year contract!

Now being broke financially (but rich in other areas – such as love, art and life) can be VERY bad for morale and I’m going to write soon about dealing with the creative scourge of poverty. My saving grace is that I did quite well financially in the ‘80’s – although as a working class lad I had NO idea what to do with the dosh and it all finally went when I developed a passion for trying to ensure that other working-class people like myself could attend and appreciate Theatre.

But I hang on to that memory and now I’ve got a phone contract again I might be becoming ‘proper’ again. Text me and let me know what you think. I’ll write the reply on this new phone.

Well known writers featured on the London Literary Pub Crawl.

London has been home to some of the most revered writers in history. Here are five of the most famous writers who have lived and worked in the city:

  1. Charles Dickens: The renowned English author was born in Portsmouth, but moved to London in his early twenties and wrote most of his beloved classics, such as Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, while living in the city.
  2. George Orwell: The author of Animal Farm and 1984 spent much of his life in London and his novels were often influenced by his life in the city.
  3. Virginia Woolf: The modernist writer and founder of the Bloomsbury Group is perhaps best known for her novel Mrs Dalloway. Woolf moved to the city in 1904 and wrote many of her works while living in London.
  4. J.K. Rowling: The author of the beloved Harry Potter series lived in London while writing the first four novels in the series.
  5. William Shakespeare: The Bard is perhaps the most famous of all London writers. He lived in the city for much of his life and wrote his most famous works, such as Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, while living in the city.

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