The Company is part of Helen O Grady International Drama Academy based in Malta. The Company was founded by UK Actor / Director – David Hirst Samuels who previously directed plays by John Waterhouse and co-founded ‘Shot in the Dark’…
‘Adieu Adieu’ six years later!
I received a curious call last week from a village hall community in Summerset.Apparently, they bought a license in 2015 to perform my murder mystery ‘Adieu Adieu’ (which is in no way whatsoever influenced by ‘Allo Allo’ even if it…
Aegean Gold
The thriller ‘Aegean Gold’ is free to download for five days from Thursday 12th November.
‘Vril’ free to download (at least until the 28th!)
https://lnkd.in/eyUfJMC ‘Vril’ is free to download for five days from tomorrow. This occult thriller explains how to this day, there are still those who seek to harness the mystical secret force which the Nazis tried to master, exploring the misguided…
Could the Covid pandemic provide new opportunities for smaller theatre companies?
Anyone with friends and contacts in the arts will have noticed a lot of disquiet on social media in particular by actors, dancers and other performers who are feeling their professions have been denigrated by government ministers as little more…
Will the show go on?
By Rebecca Reed. British Theatre has endured crises before during outbreaks of the plague between 1603 and 1613. Equally, The Globe theatre in London was shut for nearly 80 months. The country’s theatres were shut at the start of the…
‘The Tale of Tom Chaney’ free to download
I decided once lock-down loomed that I would need a project and so from around the 20th April, I started researching and then wrote an adventure novel with a comic twist set in the late medieval period. It was completed…
What is a Vrkolak?
Essentially, a Vrkolak is a Bulgarian Werewolf but what is a ‘werewolf’? There are vampire and werewolf legends across France, Germany and elsewhere but the Vrkolak is peculiarly Bulgarian. Depending on where you find yourself in Europe, werewolves may be…
The Background to Vril.
Vril is a word seldom heard today and yet this simple four-letter word has in a round-about way had far more impact on the world than any expletive. The secret, mystical power of Vril came to the fore in a…
Preparing for the next show.
We live in unprecedented times and this applies possibly more to the theatre than any other industry, being essentially based on crowding people together in a stationary position. However, for amateur theatres in particular, the current periods of self-isolation and/or…