What did you get up for New Year’s Eve? Painting the town red or just a quiet one at home? The boy and I joined my mate Steven and some of his friends for a big night out. We went to the Promised Land club night at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. It’s been ages since I’ve [...]

Smooth sailing for The Tempest. We had our production of The Tempest last Tuesday and we are now adjusting to life beyond the play. Hopefully we’ll have a cast reunion for pre-Christmas drinks very soon! There’s also talk of reviving the play in January, which I would absolutely love to do because I feel that [...]

By William Shakespeare, abridged and directed by Cat Clancy A Kinky Fish production in association with City Academy Dramatis personae Island dwellers Prospero Adam Mattison-Ward, Ahmed Arif, Richard Kirkcaldy Magician and Rightful Duke of Milan Miranda Caitlin Fitzsimmons Prospero’s daughter Caliban Gregory Lecointe and Alberto Santangelo Monster and Prospero’s slave Ariel Teagan Mann and Naomi [...]

Today is the last day of NaBloPoMo – I’ve managed to blog every single day in November. It’s certainly not been as hard as NaNoWriMo last year! Have you enjoyed the extra blogging? I can’t promise to keep it up at this rate but it’s been fun and has helped me recover my blogging mojo, [...]

Last chance for tickets to see me in The Tempest. I’m playing Miranda in an amateur production of The Tempest on Tuesday night. Today was the first dress rehearsal and we have another run-through on Monday night. We are performing at the Candid Arts Trust in Angel-Islington, which is an atmospheric room filled with ready-made [...]

No turkey and pumpkin pie on this side of the Pond, but I’ll take the opportunity to give thanks all the same Happy Thanksgiving to any American readers. And happy belated Thanksgiving for my Canadian friends (who celebrated it a month ago). Being Australian and living in Britain, Thanksgiving does not form part of my [...]

It was meant to snow in London today but it hasn’t materialised so far – it’s just been really cold with patches of icy rain that moves sideways. Revolting. Update: Apparently it snowed early this morning and melted by the time I got up. Meh. This morning I led my regular tour in the Japan [...]

Monkey: Journey to the West – awesome show, shame about the theatre layout. On Wednesday night we went to see Monkey: Journey to the West with Natalie, Jess and Andrew, and Matt and Tash. It’s on at the O2 – formerly known as the Millennium Dome – in north Greenwich until 5 December. It’s actually [...]