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Lighting next week

By Somhairle | Published: October 10, 2012

Next week, I’m lighting “Dinner”, by Moira Buffini, at the Network Theatre underneath Waterloo Station in London. That’s Tuesday 16th October to Friday 19th October – doors open at 19:00 for 19:30, and tickets are £11 from Ticketsource. Click here to download the flyer in PDF. The lighting won’t be anything particularly fancy, but then [...]

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Shakespearean jewellery

By Somhairle | Published: April 20, 2012

I’ve been making quite a few of these lately, from an old copy of Midsummer Night’s Dream rescued from the recycling. It’s the same technique I’ve been using for pendants, layered artists’ mountboard sealed with acrylic & varnish; the colours are Talens Ecoline watercolour inks, which I’m really falling in love with. The cheap paper [...]

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Lucifer mask

By Somhairle | Published: January 25, 2010

I made this one for a reading of Marlowe’s Dr Faustus. Photo by Nick Metcalfe.

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The Farce of Sodom

By Somhairle | Published: March 28, 2009

Everything went well; we had a capacity crowd (in fact, some people who wanted tickets were disappointed) and plenty of enthusiastic volunteers to read. Note to self: be more thorough about working out timings next time. Still, spending more time than expected in the pub with theatre types is always good, and the unexpected folk [...]

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Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery

By Somhairle | Published: March 12, 2009

Theatre, and not particularly related to the visual arts, but I want to talk about it anyway and make the script public. On the evening of the 26th of March, I’m running a play reading in Westminster Arts Reference Library – originally scheduled as part of LGBT History Month, but various exigencies meant we had [...]

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Major Barbara at the National

By Somhairle | Published: April 22, 2008

Last night, I went to see Shaw’s play Major Barbara at the National Theatre (Wikipedia, Gutenberg) along with Web Cowgirl and a few others. It started fairly badly for me, but then that was due to my taking a while to click with Shaw’s abstractionist speechifying (I kept wondering if Lady Britomart was about to [...]

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