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Laughing Boy: the production
26.3.24 So, rehearsals started yesterday… It’s a massive deal. I bounce between sadness, incredulity and awe (I mean what the actual fuck?) and a strange, unformed somethingness I can’t pin down....
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Laughing Boy: the countdown
Approaching the end of Week 3 of rehearsals. The first (preview) night is two weeks today. It feels surreal writing these words. Enormous, unfamiliar, extraordinary, sad. Documenting random stuff is...
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A week to go and so much more…
The first play preview night is a week today. Not been back to the rehearsal room for practical reasons, so I’ve been absorbing rehearsal reports from stage manager, Daisy Francis-Bryden, updates from...
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One more day…
Ooof. Almost here. There. The first preview of Laughing Boy is tomorrow. Updates about production progress and the sharing of gems of film and music magic projections continue. A family whatsapp...
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Previews and voucher lives
The official first week of Laughing Boy. Tonight the play will be reviewed by theatre critics. I’m ambivalent about the reviews. The play is political to its core. It’s being performed against an...
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Post preview and tales of the unexpected
Sorry, so blinking behind on these posts. Full on absorption during the course of the play wasn’t expected and is unexpectedly cool. Pre and post show tweets from audience members, daily show reports,...
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Laughing Boy. The ‘around’ stuff…
‘A technically tight performance, LX, SND and VIDEO. All cues fired correctly…’ Back to a Susi Petherick photo of the #JusticeforLB quilt to see some detail of the intricate artwork involved in the...
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Laughing Boy, Crunchie the support dog and more…
Extraordinary responses to Laughing Boy continue post performance by performance. Some of this captured by two kickass posts by George yesterday; Witnessing solidarity: the power of Laughing Boy and...
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But does it bollocks?
Connor’s headteacher and two (more) staff members saw the play last week. Sally Withey, now retired, posted on facebook, remembering ‘that call’ in her office nearly eleven years ago. She commented...
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What if Connor was boring?
Eleven years this week. Since that day. That morning. I’ve dreamed about Connor two, possibly three times during this time. Fleeting absorption, the tantalising, sadder than sad touching, holding,...
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