Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 94

Ellie and Matt bring you:

• A review of ‘Venom’ and ‘A Star is Born’
• Strat & Alex do Art: Papier Mache
• A taster of the latest offering from our sister podcast, ‘Merely Roleplayers’ – this time, they’re in Space!
• We chat about a new book what we’re in! Check out Dan Weatherer’s latest publication, ‘The Dead Stage: A Journey from Page to Stage‘ – now available on kindle and paperback
• Announcement: as of Feb 2019, we will be ceasing to broadcast our ‘magazine’ style show every fortnight. instead, we will be focusing our energies on producing more audio drama – for more info on this and the fabulous programming we have coming up, to take us to our 100th(!) episode, have a read of this.

Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 88

• Matt reviews Mission Impossible: Fallout & The Incredibles 2
• Ellie chats about Mama Mia: Here We Go Again
• We play another round of Fringe Roulette
• It’s the first episode of radio drama ‘Black Shuck’ by Duncan Hands!

 

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Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 87

Excitement abounds as in this episode we:

 

• Do another ‘Strat and Alex do Art’: it’s sewing!  It gets way more heated than that sounds…
• Review a film – Matt talks about ‘TAU’ off of Netflix ((A new instalment in straight-to-Netflix sci-fi horror B-movie corner!) – TAU Trailer

Pop it in your ear canals…

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Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 86

Matt and Ellie bring you such aural delights…

• Reviews of ‘Solo’, ‘Ocean’s 8’, and ‘Deadpool 2’
• A mystery announcement
• Strat & Alex do Art: Flower Arranging

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Article – The Trouble with Hollywood’s Gender Flips

That Monty Python sketch

Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 84

• Listen to the Q&A session from the end of our WAF writing workshop (featuring Blackshaw’s Director, Ellie Pitkin, Blackshaw’s Project Manager, Vikki Weston, and writers; M. J. Starling, Chris Buxey and Kat Roberts.
• Strat & Alex Do Art: this time they try their hand(s) at haiku
• We announce that ‘The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell’ will be played in full in the next episode (released 20th June).

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Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 83

Pop this in your earholes – the fantastic Chris Buxey, Kat Roberts, and M. J. Starling discuss writing – the discipline of writing, how to write ‘real’ dialogue, and more!

Chris Buxey

He wrote ‘The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell’, which is our next show for Wandsworth Fringe at the Putney Arts Theatre! Find out more about Chris on his website and our blog – http://blackshawonline.com/blog/announcement-the-final-adventure-of-frankie-fightwell-cast-and-creatives/

Kat Roberts

She wrote ‘Staying Alive’, our 2014 Showcase Award Winner, which went on to have a run at the Pleasance Theatre with Blackshaw, AND was published by Nick Hern books! Kat is now developing a new play, and writing scripts for TV.  Find out more about ‘Staying Alive’ on our blog – https://blackshawtheatre.wordpress.com/category/theatre/staying-alive/

M. J. Starling

He wrote ‘Audience with the Ghost Finder’, which we produced at Wandsworth Fringe 2013, and London Horror Festival 2013! Find out more on his website and listen to the radio play version on our blog – https://blackshawtheatre.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/the-blackshaw-arts-hour-episode-17/

Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 82

 

• Matt reviews ‘Avengers: Infinity War‘
• Find out who won last episode’s ‘Strat & Alex do Art’ (set design for ‘The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell’
• We hear the trailer for ‘The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell‘ – a marvel of foley!
• A new ‘Strat & Alex do Art’ – cake decorating (were there really any winners? See below pics…)

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Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 81

• Matt reviews ‘The Quiet Place’
• Helen interviews the cast and creatives at the first rehearsal for ‘The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell’
• Strat and Alex do Art – this time they tackle Set Design – they’re drawing the set for an imaginary production of Frankie Fightwell (no budget constraints!).

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Strat’s Design (set 1: The Olivier, National Theatre)

Strat’s Design (set 2: The Olivier, National Theatre)

Alex’s Design (The 02 Arena)

Relevant Links

The Quiet Place – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place_(film) 

The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell – https://www.wandsworthfringe.com/whats-on-2018/the-final-adventure-of-frankie-fightwell-by-chris-buxey

Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 80

• Matt reviews Pacific Rim Uprising
• Strat & Alex do Art returns!  This time, they’re painting eggs (sure…)
• Ellie saw ’42nd Street’  – what did she think?
• Matt saw ‘The Great Wave’ – what did he think?
• Matt and Ellie have a chat about the latest series of ‘Merely Roleplayers’  – they’re in the Wild West – listen to some clips (and then binge the series!)

 

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Useful Links

Pacific Rim Uprising – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2557478/

42nd Street – https://42ndstreetmusical.co.uk/

The Great Wave – https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-great-wave

Painting Eggs – dragon fun – https://twitter.com/DragonsofWales?s=08

Merely Roleplayers – https://merelyroleplayers.podbean.com/

Blackshaw Arts Hour – Episode 79

• Matt reviews ‘Annihilation’ and ‘Tomb Raider’
• Ellie gives a spoiler-free rundown of ‘Hamilton’ (which she done saw on Monday)
• We chat about the Writing Workshop we’re running – FREE Writing Workshop for Wandsworth residents aged 16+ on Sat 12 May, 2-4pm, Putney Arts Theatre. The workshop will cover the discipline of writing, creating narrative, writing for radio, and can offer support for starting writing, or works in progress.
• A reminder you can get discounted tickets for The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell, until 1st April!
• Shows Ellie and Matt are seeing soon: Miss Julie at the National, Good Girl by Naomi Sheldon at the Trafalgar Studios, 42nd Street (featuring Lulu!), and The Great Wave (also at the National)

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Relevant links:

Frankie Fightwell tix – http://bit.ly/FrankieFightwell 

Free Writing Workshop – http://blackshawonline.com/blog/announcement-free-writing-workshop/

Annihilation – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2798920/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Tomb Raider – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1365519/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 

Good Girl – http://www.atgtickets.com/shows/good-girl/trafalgar-studios/

42nd Street – https://42ndstreetmusical.co.uk/ 

Miss Julie – https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/julie

The Great Wave – https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-great-wave