First up, our one-off, The Shakespeare Delusion, which was postponed earlier in the year due to illness. This is the first stage in development of a show that we intend to tour much more widely 2013/14 and which involves Robert growing a lot of hair. Hairy, hairy Robert. Though he will shave and get a hair cut after October 12th so as to look acceptable for the next show, Ghost Storytelling.
The newly improved Ghost Storyteller is in rehearsal at the moment, having spent the last eight months being polished up shiny and fresh. It started off as a one-off show The Ghosts of Lavenham last year and has evolved into its current much tighter form. It is, most definitely, a comic ghost story show. That is it is more silly than scary - though we have squeezed the odd chill into the air. We've a couple of tryouts for the show before it returns to Barons Court for the London run. For those luck enough to catch the new version at Swindon Arts Centre or The Quay Theatre you will get not just the main body of the show, but also extra material that has never been heard before and may never be heard again. Perhaps.
Lastly, Robert is writing the last play for a trio of pieces collectively titled The Fantasy Terrorist Variations which follows Ghost Storyteller each night at Barons Court at 9pm. Though it has its funny moments, more than a stab or two of satire, the Variations are serious, challenging plays about our times, about politics, civil liberties, terrorism and religion. So, there is a slight possibility that Robert may get himself killed. More on this in later blogs - which will be flowing in a regular way again from now till Christmas at robertcrightonstoryteller.blogspot.com
Tickets for all these shows are on sale NOW. Even for the Barons Court run for 27th November onwards which can be bought from our good friends at ticketsource. We advise booking online and printing your own ticket - it's the cheapest and quickest way. Box office for those and the other venues are below. Full line up for this Autumn / Winter Schedule follows below...
Milk Bottle
Productions Presents...
The Shakespeare Delusion
A Comic Tale Written
and Performed by Robert Crighton
Professor Ashborn
invites you to share in his latest discoveries and lead you through the
terrible secrets behind the man people call Shakespeare. Did he really write the plays? Was he really bald? Did he like cheese? Using recently uncovered documentation
Professor Ashborn can finally tell the true and completely true, truly true,
utterly true, true story of the Shakespeare delusion!
Last year’s show –
The Ghosts of Lavenham – sold out, so book early to avoid disappointment!
Performing on Friday 12th October at 7.30pm
The Lavenham Guildhall, The Market Square, Lavenham
Storyteller 2012
Six Weeks of
Storytelling at Barons Court Theatre - Christmas 2012/13
A selection of
(mostly) comic stories and storytelling from award-winning writer and performer
Robert Crighton and his friends.
All Shows - Tickets:
£12 / £10 concessions
Tickets for all shows at Barons Court can be bought online at
Tickets for all shows at Barons Court can be bought online at
Milk Bottle
Productions Presents...
Ghost Storyteller
Comic Ghost Stories Written
and Performed by Robert Crighton
Returning this
Autumn / Winter following the success of the run last year! Ghost Storyteller is a lightly comic
selection of ghost stories written and performed by award-winning writer and
performer Robert Crighton.
From the ghosts of
empty houses, to the personal ghosts we carry around us, this collection is a
mixture of the fantastic and the “real”: including the tale of a poltergeist
hamster and the pub that cried ghost.
PRE-LONDON DATES:
Wednesday 24th
October at 7.30pm - Swindon Arts Centre
Friday 26th
October at 7.30pm - Quay Theatre
SIX WEEK BARONS
COURT RUN
Running Tuesday to
Sunday from 27th November 2012 to 6th January 2013
Barons Court
Theatre, “The Curtain’s Up”, 28A Comeragh Road W14 9HR
Milk Bottle
Productions Presents...
The Fantasy Terrorist
Variations
Written by Robert
Crighton, performed by Keith Hill and Simon Nader
Three Plays - One Subject - Boom!
A series of stories
spun from the award-winning ‘Fantasy Terrorist League’. A man is interned as a terrorist on the
flimsiest of grounds, a chancer looks how to make money out of
counter-terrorism and the story of the non-existent artwork that might get
people killed. The Fantasy Terrorist Variations is a powerful account of fear, the
policeman on our streets and the ones in our heads.
Running Tuesday to
Saturday from 27th November 2012 to 5th January 2013 at
9pm
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