After 1848

By rights I should be posting my M chapter today, but it's been a very busy week. So instead here's a bit about 1848. The show was free, but managed to sell out. It sounds like a contradiction in terms, but we filled the Conway Hall to its capacity.

I've been in several shows for The New Factory Of The Eccentric Actor and so the process is a familiar one by now. People rehearse when they can and sometimes do not meet the other actors in their scenes until the first night. It's always a matter of piecing together a jigsaw puzzle. For me, 1848 was a jigsaw puzzle with smaller pieces and I didn't see the whole show until the performance. It's not for me to speak to the quality of the show, but I enjoyed it. There's a review here.

Niall McDevitt played Baudelaire and has written this about the process.

Hopefully, we'll do it all again sometime.

1848 Today

1848 is tonight at 8pm.

It's at London's Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, near Holborn and it's absolutely free.

1848

I'm in a play. It's been a while. This one is absolutely free and as if that weren't enough, they'll give you soup as well. It's called 1848 and as the name suggests it concerns the events of that year that saw revolutions occurring across Europe.

It's at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square in London on the 22nd January at 8pm. The nearest tube station is Holborn. There is talk of more performances later in the year, but at the moment it's for one night only.