Spring chill; marrows grow
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fairytale beanstalks
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Monday, May 14, 2007
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- Helen Smith
- I write novels, children's books, plays, screenplays and poetry. Reviews here
Plays
Purple, Silver, Olive, Orange
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Almost there - Just spent a week entirely on the film, which has been great - knackering, but great. We had three days out on location Monday - Wednesday, and were well f...
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Stephenie Meyer takes huge bite out of UK book trade in first half - Stephenie Meyer was worth more than £12m to...9 hours ago
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Writing For Radio: Don't Miss It - Okay, Okay I'm late to the party - but a lot of my Bang2writers ask about writing for radio and this is one area I just don't have a clue about, since I ha...9 hours ago
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What Guild members are getting up to - MARTIN ALLEN wrote the episode of Coronation Street going out on ITV1 at 7:30pm on Friday 24th July. SIMON ASHDOWN wrote the episode of EastEnders going ou...12 hours ago
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Review – Pirates of Penzance (all male cast) – Union Theatre Southwark - Last night Jason, W and I went to the Union Theatre to see Pirates of Penzance. I’m a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan (not mad like some but there are pictures...14 hours ago
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The Art of BR1 in Turin, Italy - "My project deals with the representation of Muslim women and their social condition. I was been studying and dealing with this theme for years. As you can i...17 hours ago
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Are you shitting on my book? - Owls think everything about owl civilization is better than everything about human civilization. That is why this pretentious prick (whose goddamn name is...
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Medieval Wifi - DAMMIT, the only sketch I've written lately I was even half-pleased with was a historical anachronism joke on exactly the same subject as the first sketch ...18 hours ago
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On Mobility Scooters - I was out posting another signed photo for a fan (I still have a few 4x10s left so email me a postal address and I’ll get them to you within 3 to 4 days)...21 hours ago
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Interview: Ariel Dorfman - Ariel Dorfman is by any standard a distinguished writer. The Chilean-American author of many novels, plays, poems, essays and films in both Spanish and Engli...
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"Special" OJ - I found this on the fridge in my break room at work, we never did find out who drank the "Special" OJ but i guess that is what you get for drinking someone...1 day ago
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Tosca (Royal Opera) - I'm not sure what the Royal Opera are doing to their singers but they seem entirely unable to hold onto them. When Deborah Voigt cancelled sometime ago th...
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Tourist Trapp - I’ve got a bone to pick with Julie Andrews. Ray, she trilled, a drop of golden sun ... well not from where I’m standing, duckie. We will come separately t...1 day ago
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At Home on the Range - 'Tis truly weird. I've been here about three weeks now and it feels like longer... kind of like on a ship when home drops below the horizon and you can't s...
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Friends of the lento - From Nietzsche's preface to *The Dawn* (published 1881; this translation by J.M. Kennedy): ... we are friends of the lento, I and my book. I have not bee...1 day ago
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Review: Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth, Royal Court - Six hours of theatre? Three intervals? Have the Whingers lost the plot, or just watched so much theatre they can’t keep up with it? OK so we’re conflating ...2 days ago
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"Cooking with Elvis" - July 2009 - As evidenced by our lack of recent posts, much of the Scottish theatre world seems to shut up shop over the summer period (with the exception of a few show...
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Story Vault: Radio - Whatever you do, DO NOT MISS Michelle Lipton's indispensable breakdown of the Radio 4 commissioning process. Also, check out BBC Radio 4's website for thei...2 days ago
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"How to kill creativity while claiming to help it grow - a lesson in New Labour double-think". - Tony Garnett, WGGB: "If you want to make dramatic fiction for the screen you must first strangle your creative impulses. The alternative is even more painf...2 days ago
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Splendid: The Screening - Hello! How lovely to see you. Have you lost a bit of weight? We recently showed the pilot of our TV sketch show Splendid to a select audience. The evening...
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It's people like you that spoil it for everyone else. - So I go away for a week to visit my girlfriend's family and run with the bulls - I'm fine, thank you for asking - and manage to avoid most of the Torchwood...3 days ago
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Now look what you’ve gone and done - Before you read on, if you haven’t already done so, head over to James Moran’s blog and read this: http://jamesmoran.blogspot.com/2009/07/stepping-back.ht...3 days ago
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Meme On You Crazy Diamond - Another Meme... Well, look here, another post. At this rate you’d almost be conned into thinking I was prolific... First, a nice little piece of Six Degre...3 days ago
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Sketchbook Moment No. 37 - Projectile. Mechanical interpretation of the Heimlich manoeuvre. Click image to enlarge.4 days ago
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Splendid - Screening reflections. - Before we begin, lets look at a nice photograph of Richard David Glover and Jason Arnopp enjoying a crossword. Those two boys really do see the benefit of ...
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