Tabs Theatre & Fringe Festival Shows

Well, it's been confirmed... I'm doing a show at the end of October with Tabs Theatre Company... in fact, two shows. During the day for a couple of days I'm doing a children's show called Shaking Up Bublin and in the evening, as part of a one act play double bill, I'm doing a two hander play called Epoch. I'm quite pleased about doing the two of them, it means I'll be nice and busy around that time... Well, I'll be quite busy for most of October... I'll keep you posted on how it's going closer to the time. As an aside, I'll also be doing some sort of 'surprise show' for The Performance Corporation. I don't know what it's going to involve... it's a mystery!!

As for my work in the Fringe Festival, it all went very well. War of the Roses III: Back in Black was a great success, even though it was performed outside, at night, in the PISSING rain. The Fringe Festival judges review that night was glowing and we received a five star review in The Irish Times (scroll down to read it). We were eventually nominated for Best Production in the Dublin Fringe Festival and though we didn't win it, the fun we had doing it more than made up for it.



Wolfgang Hoffman, the director of the Fringe Festival enjoyed the show so much that he offered free tickets for the entire cast to go see the La Clique show in Spiegel tent the next night. It was a fantastic show and if you ever get a chance to go see it, DO.

Wilde On was a mixed bag. I was happy with my performance, and I heard it back from an honest source that I was good and I could be heard at the edges of the Spiegel tent, which, for an essentially unmiked performance, makes me quite happy. However, the show itself went on FAR too long, to the point that they started cutting things midway through the second half... Three and half hours of a huge mix of music, performance and skits, with no overriding direction... It had the makings of a fantastic and varied experience, but it seriously needed some trimming and a firm hand on the reins keeping it going in one direction... the poor stage manager had his work cut out... Oh well, I got to perform in Spiegel Tent and that's something cool!

I also ran into Gavan from Jaded Sun at Spiegel tent on the night the cast went to see La Clique. He told me that he and the band had seen a few clips of the footage from the music video for Crave and he said it look good. I await with baited breath.

Nicole E
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