Lots of people have been asking me if I'm doing anything at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. The answer is, unfortunately, no. However, Two Shades of Blue¹ are doing not one, but two shows: a reprise of Comedy and Cake, and a new show called Back to the Future: The Pantomime. They're performing in Edinburgh from the 17th to the 25th of August, at C ( Read more... )

I know I'm very late to the LOL$thing party, but what the hell:

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I got the job application in, finally: here's the revised (or rather, totally re-written) research proposal, and here's the summary for laymen. You will notice the point where I thought "Speculative? Ha! I'll show you speculative!" I'd really appreciate feedback, especially on the one-page summary: the two or three formulae in there should be ( Read more... )

evath has put some clips from The Matrix: The Pantomime up on Google video. Enjoy!

*watches for a few seconds*

Damn, I really need to work on my stage slaps...

Doing a Fringe show with Two Shades of Blue is a wonderful luxury, in that we can assume as a baseline things which many other companies struggle to get right. We have an experienced and competent production staff who know the Edinburgh ropes; we have a large company to hand out flyers (at which we're far better than the average company); our ( Read more... )

Last night was the first Edinburgh performance of The Matrix: The PantomimeWe sold out ( Read more... )

Sorry for the lack of updates and replies to comments - I was caught up in the flooding.

( Like rain on your wedding day )

...when he wakes up one morning and, not unreasonably, says to himself, "I shall never play the Dame".

Fortunately, this will not happen to me, because I have been offered the part of the Oracle in The Matrix: The Pantomime! Not the part I auditioned for, but I'm not complaining. Apparently I impressed them with my comedy Northern stylings. Sorry ( Read more... )

I've had another poke at Birdshot! The script can be found here (plain text, DOS format), and the version with extra bonus DVD playwright's commentary can be found here. Note new URLs: old links should still work, but might not forever. By the way, if you're thinking of making changes, the bare script is actually generated from the script-with- ( Read more... )

I got back from the high that was the Scottish Juggling Convention to find the following waiting for me:

• A big stack of letters from the library, who had decided to cut out the customary "Your book is due for renewal" stage, and proceed directly to the "Return your book NOW or pay the replacement cost (or £20, whichever is higher), and pay a £5 ( Read more... )