Whispers & Moans

Thespian action continues, with rehearsals for Fluellen 's production of "Othello", in which I play the character of RODERIGO. The show runs at Swansea Grand Theatre Arts Wing from 6th - 9th of N...

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I have never knowingly listened to an Adele song before. Although it's impossible to conduct a modern life without knowing who she is, what she does, and how heavy she is this week, it perverse...

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Interrupting my usual epoch-long silence with a modest announcement. My alter-ego, the nascent thespian ROB STRADLING (looks like me but spelled with two silent Fs), will be appearing at Swansea ...

http://robstradling.blogspot.com/2012/09/interrupting-my-usual-epoch-long.html

Mass-murderer, tyrant and all-round historical bad-boy Genghis Khan prepared for his sweeping attacks on medieval Eurasian populations by playing the popular computer game "CIVILIZATION", accordi...

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Football fans are being "persceuted" and "marginalized" in modern Britain, according to Fulham legend and former "Match Of The Day" presenter Jimmy Hill. Hill claims that the interests of fans...

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H's accomplices, THE WOMEN IN JAZZ ALL-STAR BAND, were at it again at the Swansea Metropolitan Townhill Theatre last weekend, laying down swing standards to an appreciative audience of students...

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I finally underwent arthroscopy (keyhole surgery) at the weekend to perform "capsular release" which - despite sounding like an intriguing option from the menu of a seedy massage parlour - is act...

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First Draw - episode 4 Stone Fever 's web series is edgy, uncompromising, often brutal. What it really needed, then, was some fat old guy telling jokes... This was a great fun cameo to do, wi...

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LAND OF MY FATHER BY DAVE JENKINS Delighted to be finally under way with Swansea Little Theatre's production of this new original comedy. The show runs from tonight until Saturday 20th Augus...

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Leading seismologists have been accused of "Tsunami Apologism", after forwarding several varying theories of the origins of the disaster which killed tens of thousands in Japan in March 2011. Po...

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Straight out of a successful run of "Witness for the Prosecution" with Swansea Little Theatre, and into rehearsals for the next show, an original Anglo-Welsh comedy by Dave Jenkins called "Land o...

http://robstradling.blogspot.com/2011/06/straight-out-of-successful-run-of.html

I'm really quite chuffed with this; It's film student coursework. I was originally intended to read on-camera, but studio time pressures kyboshed that. The result was cobbled together from mere ...

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I've become the official owner of one of these . Ow. It's been getting steadily worse since my accident and now 2-1B has decided to intervene. He'll be going "through the keyhole" presently. Ot...

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After a hideously short, intense rehearsal process, Swansea Little Theatre rolled out J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls last night, to a full house. The classic play's presence on the GCSE syl...

http://robstradling.blogspot.com/2011/02/fire-blood-anguish.html

So anyway, H and I sat under the tree on Christmas morning and unwrapped our jumpers. Yes, we bought each other jumpers. "Darling, it's over. We're middle aged." I said, and hugged her tightly fo...

http://robstradling.blogspot.com/2010/12/having-my-cake.html

TO THE RIGHT: STOP characterising the demo violence as an organised anarchist assault on public order. The troublemakers are a small minority, and you know it. The same types turn up to any pub...

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So... WikiLeaks, then. Like a million other, cleverer observers, I find my responses genuinely conflicted. In saying that, I do not imply some 50:50 fence occupation strategy; I am firmly towar...

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Well, most of that gap can be explained by this; ...which now looks considerably prettier, overlaid with what looks like a mini suspension-bridge. It's been a successful upgrade and Oscar Go...

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Just about to depart for Bridgnorth, in the depths of Shropshire, where this weekend I shall tread the boards once more as Geoffrey in "The Shoeshine" . Also about waist-deep in preparations fo...

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Psychonomy writes about the BCA/Singh affair. As ever, he dons the robes of Devil's Advocate and kicks against the tide in his effort to see the balance in all things. As ever, he's got a point....

http://robstradling.blogspot.com/2010/04/sometimes-fence-is-just-cigar-or.html

Oh yes, there was that little trip to San Francisco. Forgot to blog about that. Hardly worth mentioning, was it? We were only there for five days; enough to see all the famous bits but not t...

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I'd like to know how many people in the UK read this; http://www.express.co.uk/ourpaper/view/2010-02-26 as against how many read this; http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/coldweather-20...

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Yesterday the Shoeshine crew paid our first visit to Bridgnorth's Theatre on the Steps , where we will be performing in May. It's an fascinating little place, very intimate and full of 'characte...

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Our first Xmas in the new house; miraculously, we got a kitchen with a few days to spare, so I'm sitting in it typing while the mince pies cool. Then there will be ham. And hopefully a postman. W...

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Once again the Taliesin theare came up trumps last night, with a screening of "An American in Paris" . Unfortunately, the print was truly dreadful; scratched to buggery and with jumps galore. Th...

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