Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 73 (Scare Slam 2017)

Settle down for some spooky tales! A live recording of our 2017 Scare Slam, featuring the following performances:

 

The Scratch by Chris Lincé

The Fatberg of Whitechapel by Reece Connolly

Murder of Crows by Ed Hartland at Stack 10 Theatre

The Watching Eye by Dan Weatherer (performed by Ellie Pitkin)

Big Eyes by Liam Steward-George (performed by Jessica Brindle)

The Watcher by Joseph Willis

 

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Check out the pics and reviews here.

Scare Slam 2017 – Photos & Reviews

“ranging from peculiar to haunting, with some humour thrown in for good measure” – The Spy in the Stalls

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“enjoyable, scary and memorable” – London Pub Theatres

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“I was totally engrossed by it. A winning horror story that I wanted to end… for all the right reasons!” – Scare Tour UK

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The Scare Slam was recorded live and will be airing on the Blackshaw Arts Hour podcast on 3rd Jan 2018.

Photos by Richard Stratton – https://500px.com/richardstrat

*ANNOUNCEMENT KLAXON* – Scare Slam 2017 Participants

We’re soooOoooOoooo *insert own spooky voice here* excited to announce this year’s Scare Slam line up…

Book your tickets now!

Chris Lincé – The Scratch
Synopsis – A woman suffering from workplace bullying, discovers a mysterious scratch on her arm.

Intro – Chris is the co-producer and director of Hermetic Arts, whose show BADD (Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons) is at the London Horror Festival at the end of the month.
Reece Connolly – The Fatberg of Whitechapel
Synopsis – Told from the perspective of the 130 tonne, 250 m long ‘fatberg’ of cooking oil, wet wipes, nappies, excrement, and other nastiness discovered in a sewer in East London, this piece of comedy-horror spoken
word details their birth, musings, and eventual decision to rise up and take revenge on its human creators who seek to destroy it [or at the very least, convert it into biofuel]. It’s Frankenstein, but a lot smellier.

Intro – Reece Connolly is a writer and theatre-maker based in East London, originally from deepest darkest Northumberland. He grew up next door to a Victorian cemetery in a household of one-eyed cats, dead farmer’s ghosts, garden-fairies, and a thing made of rags that lived in the attic – probably explains why he loves scary stuff so much. He is involved in two production at this year’s London Horror Festival, having written and co-directed MISTER MUSHROOM, and written and directed THE STOMACHING, in which he also performs as a psychotic nun.

Stack 10 Theatre – Murder of Crows
Synopsis – A crow is kicked to death. Crows remember faces, crows hold grudges, and one night a murder of them come for a reckoning.

Info – Stack 10 Theatre have returned to the Scare Slam to bring you more tales from Chiswick, the home of horror and gateway to hell.
Dan Weatherer – The Watching Eye
Synopsis – When Tom and Angela buy Wayside Cottage, they’re hoping for an escape from the rat-race, a slower pace of life in the countryside. They might get more than they bargained for…

Info – Award-Winning Staffordshire Based Author/Playwright Author of four collections, two novels (upcoming) a novella on Dr Crippen, ad a book of plays (due 2018) Visit http://www.danweatherer.com for more details

Joseph Willis – The Watcher
Synopsis – When a man discovers a pale figure stood watching his house and a mysterious doll in his child’s possession, his sanity and family’s safety will come into question; as he tries to work out what it wants, and more terrifyingly, what it’s going to do next.

Intro – Born in Sheffield, Joseph studied a Masters in Writing, Directing and Performance at the University of York, before starting his own horror theatre collective ‘Danse Macabre Productions’. His usual work can be categorised as ‘bloody tongue in cheek’ and his piece ‘The Watcher’, is a psychological horror that taps into his irrational fear, that people staring into space, are usually doing anything but.

Liam Steward-George – Big Eyes
Synopsis – Modern look at Little Red Riding Hood set in the context of a club and taxi.

Info – Another moralistic tale about a numpty who gets it all wrong. Just don’t be a dick…

The Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 41

This week on the show, Matt and Iasha are discussing the horror genre with Green Room.

We delve into the controversy’s surrounding Harry Potter and The Cursed Child. There’s poetry, podcast inspiration, and a piece of new writing called Parents, written by Dan Weatherer to bring us to the end of the show.
Happy listening!

 

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New Writing Night – March 2016 (Showcase Award Shortlist)

Bruised by Hannah Puddefoot

Directed by George Islay-Calderwood

Emma – Lisa Ronaghan

Mike – Dan Burman

 

Cailleach Og by Gerald Moynihan

Directed by Jo Greaves

Cailleach Óg – Jo Greaves

Màire Mí Dhomhnaill – Natasha Colenso

 

Maybe God is Michael by Karen Bartholomew

Directed by Stephen Bailey

Paul – Robert Daoust

Helen – Hilary Buss

Vicar – Koullis Kyriacou

 

Parents by Dan Weatherer

Directed by Tutku Barbaros

Gilly – Daniel Garcia

Tom – Tom Slatter

Steff – Abigail Morgan

Marianna – Natasha Colenso

 

The Unexpected Guest by Rosie Marsh

Directed by Ellie Pitkin

Hannah – Angela Ferns

Sally – Emily Rae

 

Photos by Richard Stratton.

 

NEWS: Shortlist for the Showcase Award 2016

*Announcement Klaxon*

 

Shortlisted pieces for our 2016 Showcase Award are…

 

Maybe God is Michael by Karen Bartholomew

The Unexpected Guest by Rosie Marsh

Cailleach Og by Gerald Moynihan

Bruised by Hannah Puddefoot

Parents by Dan Weatherer

 

You can see all 5 pieces being performed at the New Writing Night on Weds 30th March, The Horse & Stables (Waterloo), 7.30pm.  Tickets £4 advance, £5 cash on the door.

Book your ticket now.

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The Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 19

This week on the Blackshaw Arts Hour, Vikki and Matt join Iasha in the studio. Matt reviews the film Minions and we hear a live recording of a piece of new writing performed at the most recent Blackshaw New Writing Night. The piece we played was called Beige and was written by Dan Weatherer, directed by Catherine Lord. Richard Malado played the part of Milton and Gayle was played by Hayley Marie Axe

Vikki’s Arts Thing Of The Week this week was discussing the anticipation surrounding the news of a Harry Potter play entitled, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, due to hit the West End int he summer of 16′.

We also heard from Helen Johnson with a review of Bugsy Malone, and we chatted about child stage actors.

Hannah Puddfoot’s piece of theatre, Slowdown was also played, in which Hannah wrote and performed herself with help from Ian Ward who created the sound.

Join us again on the 19th of July for the next instalment of The Blackshaw Arts Hour.

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New Writing Night – May 2015 – Blackshaw’s Big NWN at WAF

The Brain
Written by Diana Vlase
Directed by Sofia Nakou
Performed by Velenzia Spearpoint
The Pecking Order
Written by Sadiq Jaffery
Directed by Sofia Nakou
Jonah— Beau Barbour
Frankin—Alex John
Making a Difference
Written by Steven Fernandez
Directed by Catherine Lord
Michael— Gordon Round
Alana— Emily Jane Kerr
Matthew— Keir Carroll
Beige
Written by Dan Weatherer
Directed by Catherine Lord
Milton— Richard Malado
Gayle— Hayley Marie Axe

Photos by Richard Stratton