Archive For The “performance” Category

Performance Poetry@Playgroup Festival

By | August 9, 2011

I gave a performance Saturday night at the Playgroup Festival as part of the Forest of Thoughts Bedtime Stories and Poems.  I don’t know what ever possessed me to accept a slot at 12:30 AM, immediately following a burlesque act, … Continue…

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Pass me the cheese

By | April 20, 2011

Another day, another French film stuffed to the gunnels with crying and kissing. In a nutshell, we had a bunch of Gallic miseries on holiday doing a lot of moaning while their supposedly bezzie mate lay dying in hospital, having come off his scooter after a night snorting absinthe in a Parisian brothel. We never [...]

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Hanging with the Mayor of Balham

By | March 21, 2011

Laughter, it’s said, is the best medicine and although I’m never ill, I do like to laugh a lot; granted, some may call my laugh more of a cackle, and, in extreme cases of hilarity, my head and upper torso can get quite loose and jerky too. Indeed, I have been known to accidentally head [...]

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Dancing with weirdos

By | October 15, 2010

As if I didn’t have enough diddly diddly music at my folky foray in the summer, friend X has seduced me into another banjo extravaganza. This one involves men in dungarees, Grandad shirts and bowler hats. Not so much Mumford and Sons as Mr Mainwaring on his day off from the Home Guard. Anyway, if [...]

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Daphne is a swinger

By | June 29, 2010

Friend X has a proposition for me: do I want to be a supporting artiste on a short film being made in Brighton? I’m to play ‘mature lady at a dinner party’. Any opportunity to show off, thinks I although I’m not sure about the ‘mature’ bit. When I learn there’s nudity and tomfoolery with [...]

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