Jul
31
What to say about Stratford Upon Avon? It’s a toy town. I mean, make no mistake, as toy towns go, it’s a very nice toy town. For a start, it’s the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company which is, as previously established, a Good Thing. It’s got some of the most excellent theatre going on …
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Jul
30
How I have managed to get through over a year of this blog and not talked properly about Covent Garden is a mystery…. Okay, so, once upon a time, in the deepest darkest depths of the early modern period, Covent Garden was a proper fruit and vegetable market renowned for prostitution and gin. It sat …
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Jul
30
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There will come a point when I put up different photos to these… spectacular amazing photos far better than these… but as the last time I was in a position to take the afore-mentioned photos we were half way through a tech session and there were dimmer problems with the ACLs on stage left, I …
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Jul
28
Was anyone else really, really frightened when they heard that the BBC was making a 21st century version of Sherlock Holmes? Was anyone else really, really relieved to discover that actually, it was good? Oodles of fun, and strangely both respectful and innovative. Full marks! Authors, you see, are starting to be dead long enough. …
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Jul
27
This is possibly going to be the first post in an emerging category… and while technically it’s an abuse of my blog since it has nothing to do with writing or fantasy, hell, it’s my blog, so I’ll do it! (And no one has yet told me that I can’t. So there.) I’m lighting designer …
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Jul
26
I am a fantasy writer, and I know this because I own a black leather jacket. Every profession has its own uniforms. Soldiers were khaki, police wear blue and black, doctors wear white, techies wear steelies and writers are no exception. Romantic novelists, according to my Mum, wear skirts and floral-pattern silk scarves and don’t …
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Jul
25
Oh my god I love this play. Henry IV was, according to 1066 And All That (the book I never quite had the guts to reference in my historiography essays…) a Bad King who wisely resigned half way through his reign in favour of Henry IV Pt.2. There is my one and only medieval history …
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Jul
22
A few months ago, I mentioned in passing in a room full of techies, that I was a member of a relatively young organisation called Women in Lighting. A male lampie in attendance, who I’ll guess we’ll call Ebenezzer for the purpose of this story, immediately embarked on something of the following rant: “Jesus, I …
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Jul
18
So, I’ve graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. I should add, I’m not sure what my final grade was – I mean, I think it was quite good, but as the piece of paper I was given didn’t say (nor did anyone else’s say, if you’re wondering) then only cunning mathematics and a …
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Jul
16
The shaman has been a cultural figure in most societies for a very long time. Not necessarily as someone called the shaman, mind – the job title’s gone through a lot of evolution. But generally, throughout history, there has been someone who does the job. A mushroom-eating wise one who communicates with the spirits; a …
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