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Spooky rehearsals
Chris Rolls (director) and Oliver Townsend (designer) have really gone for the supernatural and psychological in our production of Verdi’s Macbeth – lots of ghosts, spooks and blood. An Act III cameo role for 5 children as the Masters of the Earth warning Macbeth against MacDuff and setting im up with the Birnham Wood nonsense.…
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The Scottish Opera
Things are hotting up for the cast of Macbeth (Verdi), the latest production from Blackheath Halls Opera. We’ve met and heard all the principals, and we’re firmly off the book and managing to move and sing at the same time, though getting up from kneeling (to various kings – we get through a few) and…
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Towersey countdown #SpreadtheWordThree
So, here’s the plan: Myself and two other hand chosen operatives will infiltrate the festival that has been held in Towersey, a small Oxfordshire village for years and years, and turn what has until now been a folk music event into a celebration of the spoken word. Watches have been synchronised, and train timetables perused. …
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Inspirations – Marvell and computers
The short story Mosaic of Air, (title story of my first collection and republished this coming September) began life in a computer literacy class in the late 1980’s. I was bored, the class was going slowly, and I’d been given some BASIC code to play with. I started to imagine what would happen if the…
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The Queen’s Safety
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.Cent Magazine
.Cent Magazine published my flash fiction, Is Nothing, in their Cornucopia edition under the Harvest theme. You have to sign up to read, but it doesn’t commit you to anything. Lovely illustration too. This story came from running an exercise with a group at Swindon Festival of Literature in 2012 – in silence, just writing…
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Performing Live – update
Brixton BookJam has moved to 8th July due to a double booking at the venue. Everything else is as previously mentioned. I will be reading and running workshops at Towersey Festival (Near Thame, Oxfordshire) over August Bank Holiday weekend with Spread the Word, no more details yet but will know more in a week or…
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Performing live at a venue near you??
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Keats Festival 2013 opens
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Old notebooks
On the shelf above my desk, and in the bottom left-hand drawer are old notebooks, some have a few pages left to use, others are full: with the detritus of writing. Several friends and I have this ongoing thing of buying each other notebooks – writers can never have too many notebooks, although I do…
Cherry Potts, Writer 