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