I am sitting on my doorstep staring at my bike. It’s new, serviced and lubricated. I am old, arthritic and discombobulated. It’s not as if it’s some sinister exocet of a machine. It’s a pedal bike. What, as kids, we would romantically call a racing bike with drop handles, but what is now referred to […]
Read More...ChainWorks Productions – a new link in the chain
In November 2013, I bit the bullet and did something I should have done 20 years ago. I forged my own company. ChainWorks Productions is a direct legacy of the Mzansi Cymru project building on similar surprising collaborations and rooted to its cultural history, past and present but always looking outward and to the future. ChainWorks […]
Read More...Lovectomy
This is a short film made by Newport students who went on to form the production company LIKE AN EGG headed by Keiran McGaughey. I only play a small part and it’s here mainly because it includes performances by Dorien Thomas and Brian Hibbard who died far too young last year. I’ve worked with them both […]
Read More...Excerpt: Cradle to the Grave
CRADLE TO THE GRAVE LAURA at the computer. QUILLER comes in. LAURA Gillespie. I didn’t expect you so early. How was your sort of date? QUILLER She didn’t turn up. LAURA Swinging around. I’m sorry I thought you were – I don’t think you should […]
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