For those just in, here's a player for all five episodes of Wartime Memories - each episode is around 10 minutes long, so about fifty minutes as a single listen.
Wartime Memories: First Hand Recollections of the Great War by William Coleman
In the early 1980's, William Henry Coleman, a veteran of the First World War, was persuaded to talk about his experiences. What he didn't realise was that he was secretly being recorded. This is a series of restorations of that footage, released for the first time, with a specially recorded interview with his grandson, Alan Scott.
NB: Due to the archive nature of the recording and the context of its creation, the audio quality is extremely variable - if the stories told do not always yield to a first listen, hang in there, it's worth it.
The voices you will hear are: William Coleman on the archive recording, Alan Scott in present day interview and the producer Robert Crighton in the background.
This series is supported by Patreon - to support more work like this from Robert Crighton go to www.patreon.com/robertcrighton
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Wednesday, 6 July 2011
The Imaginary Duck
Milk Bottle Productions Presents...
STORYTELLER:
The Natural History of Trolls
Right, first a bit of business - here is the full cast list again, with the various changes made. These are the wonderful people of the cast.
THREE DAY EVENTERS:
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| The cast - check earlier blogs for names... |
(On for all three performances)
Robert Crighton
Georgina Blackledge
Jessica Moore
Sophie Morris-Sheppard
Pamela Flanagan
Pamela Flanagan
Richard Ward
ONE DAY INTERNATIONALS:
MONDAY
Charlotte Hunter
Charlotte Hunter
Philippa Tatham
Simon Nader
Emma Burn
Sally Gilfillan
Ailsa Ilott
TUESDAY
Sophie Carmichael
Denys Gaskill
Jessica Tobert
Josie Bloom
Kate Steel
Matthew Harrison-James
WEDNESDAY
Elizabeth Jee
Jamie Addlet
Gillian Horgan
Elizabeth Quinn
Elizabeth Nicholson
Colin Emerson
They should all be found in the previous six or so blogs with details about their wonderful selves.
Now, there is one member of the cast we haven't talked about yet. He is the most important part of any Milk Bottle show living as he does in our hearts. I speak of the Imaginary Duck of whom I am protector.
Let me tell you of the Imaginary Duck. He is a calm beast to the eye of the spectator - floating along on the surface of the waters of the drama. No discernable effort is displayed by the Imaginary Duck. But underneath the surface of the waters the feet of the Imaginary Duck paddle at a terrific rate, churning up the liquid of tragedy, pushing against the fluid of comedy, forcing the evident body of the duck towards its ultimate aim - the shores of total satisfaction that all audiences crave.
The cast and I live through the spirit of the Imaginary Duck, we work hard to reach our destination - your contentment - but do all that is in our power to ensure that you do not see our little feet work.
All hail the power of the Imaginary Duck.
Quack!
You can tell I really haven't got anything serious to write about today. Rehearsing stories and monologues is incredibly dull I can tell you, it's the performing part that's fun, so forgive me if I take a little time off to write nonsense.
The Imaginary Duck is actually a company in joke, after someone mistranslated the title of a Moliere play during a rehearsal. Le Malade Imaginaire. Of course we should call it the Imaginary Mallard, but Duck flowed better.
As I wrote this I thought I'd put Imaginary Duck into a search engine and see what came up. I found this Could-becoming-an-imaginary-duck-change-your-life? It's a strange universe.
Anyway, that's just one of many pointless things we do at Milk Bottle.
Till tomorrow, when there's something with a little more weight.
Robx
They should all be found in the previous six or so blogs with details about their wonderful selves.
Now, there is one member of the cast we haven't talked about yet. He is the most important part of any Milk Bottle show living as he does in our hearts. I speak of the Imaginary Duck of whom I am protector.
Let me tell you of the Imaginary Duck. He is a calm beast to the eye of the spectator - floating along on the surface of the waters of the drama. No discernable effort is displayed by the Imaginary Duck. But underneath the surface of the waters the feet of the Imaginary Duck paddle at a terrific rate, churning up the liquid of tragedy, pushing against the fluid of comedy, forcing the evident body of the duck towards its ultimate aim - the shores of total satisfaction that all audiences crave.
The cast and I live through the spirit of the Imaginary Duck, we work hard to reach our destination - your contentment - but do all that is in our power to ensure that you do not see our little feet work.
All hail the power of the Imaginary Duck.
Quack!
You can tell I really haven't got anything serious to write about today. Rehearsing stories and monologues is incredibly dull I can tell you, it's the performing part that's fun, so forgive me if I take a little time off to write nonsense.
The Imaginary Duck is actually a company in joke, after someone mistranslated the title of a Moliere play during a rehearsal. Le Malade Imaginaire. Of course we should call it the Imaginary Mallard, but Duck flowed better.
As I wrote this I thought I'd put Imaginary Duck into a search engine and see what came up. I found this Could-becoming-an-imaginary-duck-change-your-life? It's a strange universe.
Anyway, that's just one of many pointless things we do at Milk Bottle.
Till tomorrow, when there's something with a little more weight.
Robx
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Meet the Cast - The Penultimate Part
Milk Bottle Productions Presents...
STORYTELLER:
The Natural History of Trolls
This is the second to last selection of the company, final people next week. And the week after that you can see them in the flesh, if you buy a ticket.
Jessica Moore is an established actress who trained at East 15. She recently performed in Loves Labours Lost as The Princess and Henry V as Mistress Quickly and Alice for the CSF, Top Cat and Alice in 'Dick Whittington meets Top Cat', Polina in 'The Seagull' at Barons Court and Kim in 'The Waiting Game' at the Unicorn Theatre. Other credits include Emma Darwin in 'When Poets Meet Scientist's' and various Voice over projects including Sony Playstation in various roles and more recently narrator for Revealed on CNN; credits include Sylvio Berlosconi John Malkovitch and Mark Ronson.
Sally trained at ArtsEd, London. Theatre roles include: Katy in The Revengers, Barons Court Theatre, Maggie in With Feathers, The Pleasance, Islington; Paulina in A Winters Tale, Maria in Twelfth Night, Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, Maria in Love’s Labours Lost all for Rooftop Theatre Company, Veralanium Park, St Albans; Beatrice in Much ado about Nothing (UK tour) Pauline in A Kind of Alaska, The Pleasance and Barons Court, Gila, One for the Road Barons Court; Susan in Tiresias part of an evening of monologues at The Crown Pub, New Oxford Street. Films include Dirty Turkey, The Brotherhood, The Kiss. Commercials: Sainsburys Jamie Oliver Campaign.
Richard Ward trained at Drama Studio London and has appeared in several one act festival plays at the Lost One Act Festival and elsewhere. Other theatre includes "We The People" (Shakespeare's Globe) and "Twelfth Night" (Saviour Theatre). Film and tv includes "Midsomer Murders", "Blue Peter" and "Tortoise In Love". Richard specialises in audio books and role play and is absolutely delighted to be making his first appearance with Milk Bottle Productions. Spotlight 9376-9059-3054.
[Blogger Note: The show is a surprise to most of the cast. Most of the company only have two thirds of the story - they don't know how it ends. Except for myself and Richard - who performs as part of the Epilogue. I didn't feel it was fair for him to not know what most of his text refered to, so I did send him an early draft. Early mind. Even Richard doesn't know it all.]
Jamie Addlet
Theatre credits include Quincey Morris in Dracula, Badger in Toad of Toad Hall, George in Don’t Dress for Dinner and Ernest Foster in Suddenly At Home. Screen credits include Larry in Eye Level, Barry in Best Man (a film that was nominated in the 2010 British Horror awards and then banned from being shown at the ceremony for being too graphic) and an Ident for EDF Energy.
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