Nick Hennegan's Bohemian Britain
Lifestyle tales from the city
Nick Hennegan talks to the late Sally Fiber about her time growing up in one of the most famous literary pubs in London in the company of Walter Sickert, Augustus John, Jacob Epstein, Nina Hamnett, Dylan Thomas, George Orwell and Tommy Cooper to name but a few!
The French House Pub famously only serves half-pints. Apart from on Pint Night! When, for charity and for one day only, they serve pints like other pubs.
Traditionally, there’s a lot of things happen on pints day at The French. And usually the musician Suggs, from the band Madness, pours the 1st pint in the morning. (His Mom used to be a regular)
As you may gather from watching this little video, I started uploading live to Facebook etc but now just do them here. And the video was filmed towards the end of Pint-Day and quite a few had been consumed! But don’t judge us! š
And the Pint of course..!
One of our Actors swapped her Audition appointment for Two and bought us these to say sorry! Sheās forgiven! š
Day 2 of #auditions in #Soho for #TWO Weāve seen some BRILLIANT #actors – although not sure if any of these are coming in today!
| New Ā£100k fund for Fringe artists |
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| Here’s the official notice… “There’s a new fund available for artists and companies bringing work to Fringe 2023, and it’s worthĀ Ā£100,000.TheĀ Keep it FringeĀ fund will distribute 50 awards of Ā£2,000 to shows registered for this year’s Fringe. You don’t need to have completed registration to apply, but funding will only be awarded to successful applicants once they’ve registered their show.Applications open atĀ 12:00Ā GMTĀ onĀ Friday 10 March 2023; if you have any questions, we’re hosting an online information session atĀ 16:00Ā GMTĀ tomorrow (Wednesday 08 March). The recorded session will also be available to watch again on Fringe Connect.” A great initiative. But it won’t do much to dent the quote I had last year for a 3-bedroomed flat in Edinburgh – Ā£10,500 FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST! |
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Sue and Peter- the latest recruits to the London Literary Pub Crawl family. Seen here, at the end of a grand old time of creative enlightenment and generous refreshment.
Bell, Book and Candle. By John Van Druten, Directed by Mark Giesser. Now till 11th March 2023.
š·š·š·š· šŖ(4 glasses out of 5, PLUS a Magic Wand!)
Theatre At The Tabard, 2 Bath Road, London W4 1LW.
Beth Burrows and Edward Hayes-Neary (Photo Charles Flint)
The new regime at the Tabard Studio Theatre in Chiswick, West London has been in place for less than a year. Yet, they seem to have already developed the habit of finding unusual and quirky offerings to present. This little-known classic from the 1950s is no exception. Bell Book and Candle is a kind of RomCom with magic! Literally! A ‘friendly’ coven of witches lives in London and one of them, Gillian, (Beth Burrows) falls for a non-witch and wants to fit in by not practising witchcraft anymore.
This kind of leads to all sorts of problems and the plot needs a book of spells to keep on top of, but it’s a good-hearted, good-natured slice of fun and unique enough to demand a viewing. The costume, cast and set work perfectly, apart from the odd vocal weakness, and itās easy to see why Sol Saks, the creator of the popular worldwide TV hitĀ Bewitched, credits this play as his inspiration.
I have to say it… This play is magic!
If you want to know more about starting a Theatre Company or training as a Producer thereās a 1 hour Zoom session this Monday 6th March, between 6-7pm. Itās pretty informal and relaxed. Tickets are either Ā£5 or Ā£2 for the āideas rich-cash poor!ā
See you there!
http://www.TheatreProducerTraining.Com
Itās a glorious sadness saying goodbye to the talented Creative Producer Cohort after lectures tonight. I always hate it! But with their talent they will be creating new Theatre soon. And itās a small business so weāll meet again. In fact weāre now taking new applications for April! Do you want to create Theatre? Set up a theatre company? And make me sad all over again in July when the new cohort will finish? See www.TheatreProducerTraining.Com
Sob..!
