This year has been such a difficult one for performers. The Ghost Walks, which had been due its return at Easter was cancelled for the year. The new walk, all the new stories I had so been looking forward to telling, cancelled for the year. And, of course, with so much chaos going on the …
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Norwich Ghost Walks
The Norwich Ghost Walks have been around in the city for a long while and it's been a great privilege to be a part of it. Since August, I've been playing the Jack of Crows, a trickster figure with a dark sense of humour. I take my unsuspecting audience on a journey around Norwich castle …
Yuletide storytelling
There are some jobs that really satisfying, and a Christmas storytelling session in the ancient woodland that is Wrongs Covert is certainly one of those. Wrongs Covert is a protected woodland and hosts some incredible wildlife. It's protected status means that performing there is a privilege. A lot of the work done at Wrongs Covert …
Loco Horror Train
As the nights grow longer and darkness takes its rightful place as ruler over our hearts, it’s time for the horrors and spectres to take the stage. At least, that’s what we all did in Dereham this October. The Loco Horror Train was a brand new scare attraction running on the Mid-Norfolk railway. About 70 …
The Ellis Project
The show has come to an end. It’s always a sad moment. We had plenty of ups and downs in the production process, and a few moments of serious concern on the day of the first show, but we all knuckled down, but our best effort in, and it came out splendidly. I’ll miss this …
Rehearsals for The Ellis Projectm
Rehearsals are well under way for SDL Theatre’s Ellis Project. It’s a honour to be working alongside Deborah and some really talented actors. Rehearsals have mainly been about working through the basics of blocking and discovering our characters. There is a real flexibility to Deborah’s direction style which means that, as an actor, I am …
Murder, explorations and ghosts
It has been a very busy couple of weeks and I have been enjoying virtually every moment of it. Last weekend was spent at the Strumpshaw Tree Fair (a truly wonderful local mini-festival full of local arts and crafts, performers, storytellers and the marvellous Foolhardy Circus) and, whilst the sun was relentless, the magnificent weather …
The Mummy’s Curse
This weekend I worked with Dreamstone Productions for the first time on a murder mystery entitled “The Mummy’s Curse”. It’s always a pleasure to work with a new group. And a fine group of actors they are too. Despite the rain, we had a good turnout and even managed to avoid drowning the cast, although …
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