Bohemian Welsh football!
Another reason why I bloody LOVE Wales. The Llanon FC team returns home after only their 3rd game ever… a 4-0 defeat in a cup game to a team playing leagues above them. As you can see… they are despondent!
Art ain’t Easy!
In #Wales writing a #radio script Last time I was here in May we had an idea and 2 scenes of a play about Frankenstein but no money and no venue. Three months later, this was the result. Anyone who says the arts is easy deserves a slap! 😀
Review – Persuasion – Theatre at the Tabard.
🍷🍷🍷🍷 – 4 glasses of fine claret!
The Theatre at The Tabard continues its reputation for fine acting with its current production, Pursasion. By Jane Austen, adapted for the stage by Dawn Bush.
A loose adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen, it deals with seven years in the life of Anne Elliot; at first a sweet nineteen-year-old persuaded by an influential friend to call off her engagement to the penniless Frederick Wentworth. Seven years later we reencounter the two characters through an unexpected meeting of an unhappy but still sweet Miss Elliot, spinster – and the also unhappy but no longer penniless Captain Wentworth. Along the way, we meet the self-centred Lady Musgrove, Nurse Rooke, Lady Russell, Mary Musgrove, Mrs Croft and the moustached William Elliot. Also Janet Smith, Elizabeth Elliot, Louisa Musgrove, Sir Walter Elliot, Charles Musgrove, Admiral Croft and Captain Benwick.
Sound confusing? Well, it is a little. Some of the original characters from Austen have been culled in this adaptation by Dawn Bush and maybe we could have lost a few more. It means at the start of the production there was a slight lack of clarity – is this a rom or a com? We find out quite soon it’s a romcom. And a rather good one too!
And it’s only a slight blemish on an otherwise clear-skinned, blushing, square-jawed, broad-shouldered production. There are some great comments on male and female roles in society and… well… Persuasions! The young acting cast is universally brilliant and there’s not a weak link. There are some great physical performances and the kiss at the end is worth watching out for! The costumes and set are simple but sumptuous and you shouldn’t need to be persuaded to get down the Tabard before this little gem by touring outfit DOT Productions finishes. Or goes to Bath! (You’ll need to see the show to understand this..!)
Tickets: Performances 14 to 30 September £23.50/£19.50 concessions; Final week £25.50/£21.50 concessions.
The production lasts for 1 hour 45 minutes and has a 20-minute interval.
You can book all productions online on the Tabard Theatre website or call the box office on 020 8995 6035 (leave a message if you can’t get through and your call will be returned).
Theatre at the Tabard is at 2 Bath Road, Chiswick (W4 1LW).
Theatre and WB Yeats.
At the opening night of ‘Persuasion’ at the Tabard #Theatre, I popped over the road to celebrate WB Yeats!
Hellooo Chiswick Writers…!
A bit late, but with #chiswick #writers at the @georgeivw4 for the Book Festival. Hear the full night on http://www.BohemianBritain.com.
From the Edinburgh Fringe to the Chiswick Book Festival.
After returning from a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Nick Hennegan is in Chiswick, West London, for the Book Festival’s Local Writers evening at the George lV Pub on the High Road. Hear a selection of local writers with just TWO minutes to present their books… before being noisily penalised!
Part 2 next week.
RIP Peter Wilson.
I was shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of #theatre producer Peter Wilson, aged 72.
He was my @StageOneNewProd mentor and founder of the brilliant @pwproductions, best known perhaps for ‘The Woman in Black’ in the West End. He supported our People’s Company too.
I sent him a script in March and now understand why he didn’t get back to me. Thinking of his family. ❤️
RIP lovely man.
Last Friday night at the Fringe.
We had a bit of a party! The actor at the end played Boris Johnson in ‘Dom’… a play about Dominic Cummings. Yep!
And that’s a (Scottish) Wrap!
And that’s the last ‘The Birth of Frankenstein’ show @edfringe for 2023.
Three of this @thepleasance team are now heading to #Birmingham. We’re Alive from tomorrow! https://tinyurl.com/3pzhvdh4 Come and see us at The Billesley, and please share! x
