The Good, The Bland and the Ugly Truth/Fringe Virgin
TODAY IS OUR LAST SHOW!!! This news comes tinged with both sadness and relief. Sadness because it is always lovely to watch this cast perform and see audiences respond to our work AND we’ve met some great people here but relief because I get to go home and see my family. On telling other performers […]
Theatre Junkie/Fringe Virgin
OH MY GOD….I’M FREAKING OUT… I can’t breathe, blurred vision, heart rate soaring, tingling, pins and needles, head is racing.. OH MY GOD. I haven’t seen a show for over 40 minutes and I’m in full detox. I need it, I need the tiny venue, the LED lights, the new and unexpected theatrical experience – […]
These boots are made for walking/Fringe Virgin
Ok, my feet hurt. Don’t get me wrong I’m not complaining. The fact that I forgot most important things today and so by the time I reached our flyering post this morning I had completed my step count FOR THE DAY is good. IT’S ALL GOOD. But they hurt, not in a specific way, blister […]
The EDFRINGE Levels of Tension/Fringe Virgin
OH MY GAWD!! Ah, the sweet smell of success. No sooner had I uttered the phrase ‘where are the hoards of shiny people wanting to see our play’ than the HOARDS ARRIVED!!!! So, over the course of 24 hours we have been through the levels of tension in Fringe life… Stage 1 – panic – […]
The Backpack of a Fringe Virgin
OK, we’ve cracked it. The get in and get out are running like a gazelle at feeding time and the show is sublime, beautiful times. BUT STILL – where are the hoards of shiny new audience members begging to see our play?? Curious… Ok, so we haven’t ‘cracked the fringe’, not yet but that’s no […]
Fringe Fever, It’s a thing/Fringe Virgin
Well bugger me. Day one preview over and so far, we are feeling the #edfringe stress effect full on. Between our show running over by a full 10 minutes AND our set having to be negotiated into a space resembling a complicated Tetris set up, yesterday was a bit of a crazy wake up call […]
Tours and Trophies! The last few weeks at Quirky Bird HQ…
So, silence is golden or so they say but here at Quirky Bird Headquarters it’s just been chat chat chat all the way! With so much going it’s been hard to find the time to fill you in. but here we go… Well since last here our fantastic production of That Face has rolled into […]
Great Review!
That Face Polly Stenham’s writing has the ability to jolt her audience into foreseeing so much more than what is witnessed within the moment. Last week, Royal Wootton Bassett based Quirky Bird Theatre performed Stenham’s ‘That Face’, (At Alma Theatre, Bristol) a play exploring the dysfunctional push-pull dance of a particular family dynamic, along with […]
To Pee or not to Pee..
So this week we have been in total crack down on bringing everything together, all costume, media make up, props and set but one technical aid remains problematic. A weeing device maybe? What?! This sounds wrong? Well no, for those who know the play will know a particular moment happens in Henry’s most desperate state […]
Never Say Never
I’ve produced and directed Theatre but thought I’d retired from stage acting, playing onscreen only & producing. Then I saw Quirky Bird’s Tusk Tusk wow! I’ve seen lots of great Theatre but this awakened a longing to work in a cast again to be on that stage. So when I heard they were doing another […]