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Ellie and Matt are joined by Vikki and Sinead – we talk about…
– Girl from the North Country at the Old Vic
– Sinead’s Edinburgh Fringe 2017 experience
– Logan Lucky, The Dark Tower, and Atomic Blonde film reviews
– Sinead’s theatre challenge
– Our upcoming Scare Slam http://bit.ly/ScareSlamLHF
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Relevant Links:
https://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2017/girl-north-country-3
Ellie, Matt and Alex catch up with Dave Bibby re: Edinburgh and his show ‘Nobody Puts Bibby in the Corner’, Matt reviews ‘Under the Shadow’ and we play another round of Edfringe Roulette! Also, we announce our 3rd Annual Scare Slam at the London Horror Festival (23rd October, 7pm, Old Red Lion).
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This episode features Matt, Ellie, Alex and Strat.
Matt reviews ‘The Beguiled’ – spoiler, he says he has ‘almost forgotten it already’.
We chat to some lovely people about their Edinburgh Fringe shows:
Dave Bibby – Nobody Puts Bibby in the Corner
Richard Stott – Wretched
Anna Marsland – Ballistic
Christopher Woodley – The Soft Subject (a Love Story)
Strat & Alex do Art: The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is a literary technique in which a text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s. We gave them a copy of the Evening Standard each and let them run riot with the scissors (NB: no actual running with scissors occurred – that’s not allowed).
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Relevant Links:
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/soft-subject-a-love-story
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/wretched
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/nobody-puts-bibby-in-the-corner
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/ballistic
On the show this time – Ellie, Matt, Alex and Jess. A review of ‘Baby Driver’, and a light touch review of ‘Spiderman: Homecoming’, and a quick round of EdFringe Roulette.
Jess talks to us about the show she’s in at the fringe, ‘Dates’, and we hear from Karen Bartholomew, whose show ‘God’s Waiting Room’ is playing at the King’s Head as part of Festival 47.
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Relevant Links:
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/dates
Ellie, Matt, Alex, Strat and Helen are in the studio!
– Strat & Alex do an art; a ‘drabble’ (100 word short story)
– Matt reviews ‘Nerve’ off of UK Netflix
– We chat about the latest core funding awarded by the Arts Council England
– Another game of EdFringe Roulette!
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Links mentioned in the show:
Lyn Gardner’s Guardian Article RE: ACE funding.
‘The Big Four’ Telegraph Article.
Gary by Alexander Pankhurst
“Gary, Gary, Gary, Gary!”
“I’m sorry what?”
“Birthday?!”
“Oh yeah!”
Opening the blinds Gary brought his large mechanical arms up in mock surprise.
“Close the blinds you idiot you’ll spoil it!”
“Sorry! I wasn’t aware that our guest of honour was going to be here so soon.”
“You know full well that he’s upstairs!”
“Fine,” Gary drawled, “If it’s so important to your little plan I’ll close them.” Snapping them shut he flounced off, only pausing to smirk and waggle his servo operated fingers precisely in Bens direction.
“Dick!” Ben spat. It was a lame retort and he knew it.
100 word story by Richard Stratton
“It’s behind your hand”, Gary drawled, “the handkerchiefs were up your sleeve, the rabbit is under the table.”
Dandini, Woking’s greatest birthday party magician, didn’t like Gary. Gary was an arrogant, know-it-all bully who had spent the last year terrorising his year 7 classmates. Dandini had chosen well.
“Now I need require a volunteer. How about the birthday boy?”. Gary swaggered over, sneering.
“In to my trunk of disappearance. Excellent, mind your head while I close the lid. Abrakadabra!”
10 minutes later Dandini was leaving the party.
Gary’s dad was talking to another child’s parent.
“Gary? I’m sorry? What birthday?”
This week on the podcast, Matt brings us his review of Ghostbusters, a re-boot of the 1984 original.
We hear an interview with Stage Manager and friend of Blackshaw Lizzie Cooper. Lizzie talks to Ellie about how she ended up working in the industry, the shows she’s worked on recently and some of the weird and wonderful props she’s had to source.
Matt and Iasha talk about some of the recent theatre they have seen in London, including two shows at The National (The Plough and the Stars and The Deep Blue Sea) and West End Musical, Matilda. Also, back by popular demand, we play Edinburgh Roulette for the second time on The Blackshaw Arts Hour.
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This week on the show, Matt, Alex and Iasha are in the studio with new wrting to play and lots of reviews.
First up Matt reviews the new pixar film Inside Out and we talk in the studio about what it takes to make us cry in films.
Next up is Alex talking about a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that he is appearing in in a few weeks. The play is on at the Tea House theatre from the 10th – 12th of September and all the details can be found here.
We also played “Have You Seen Spiderman 2?” a piece of new writing we recording last year, written by Joe Banks and performed by Grace Felton and Smith Lowe.
Vikki came to us via pre-record to review some of the shows she saw a few weeks ago at the Edinburgh Fringe and then Helen Johnson reviewed the Cyphers Chekov double bill that was performed at The Proud Archivist a couple of weeks back.
Next up on the show was part 2 of The Whistling Room following up from the last Blackshaw Arts Hour where we left you halfway through an original Carnacki story read by our very own Matt Boothman.
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