london

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!

At the Tristan Bates Theatre

Where exactly is it Ed?

Following sell-out success in this year’s Bristol Mayfest Ed Rapley’s The Middle Bit is making it's way to London this December…

“Have you ever felt like you just can’t be bothered?”

In this funny and thoughtful show notorious Bristol performer Ed Rapley attempts to overcome his own lazy demons...and fails.

Oh how lucky you Londoners are, I'll be visiting you muchly over the coming months. First off I'll be stepping into the role of Douglas in this spot of theatre for children, by Soap Soup.

Douglas has writers block. His ideas seem anchored to the mysterious image of a rabbit, from which he can't escape. Yearning for some kind of transformation in his life, Douglas is unsure whether his words or the rabbit hold the key. Soap Soup Theatre successfully fuses puppetry, music and live performance to create their new, highly original production of Sir Gregory's Hutch.

Now this is long over due.

Just the day after I performed my first full work in progress presentation of The Middle Bit at the Arnolfini i was off to London to put on a 15 minute version at the Tristan Bates Theatre's Midnight Matinees.

As the name suggests this happens from midnight onwards and it comprises work in progress and development performances. That night there was a script reading by, ah right, this is the problem i have forgotten the details and lost the info sheet i had so maybe i will update this once i've tidied my room.

This day was always going to come, I knew that eventually I would have to make the move, but I didn't think that it would be so soon. That's right folks - I am leaving Bristol.

What a lovely weekend, I really enjoyed myself at the BAC, performing all my one to one shows for the Forest Fringe's two day event.

The room i got to use was great and the audience reactions were really good. I was please with the new Money Game but I think that it might work better as an open piece with more than one audience member, so that people could come and go and watch the action, a bit more like Search Party Vs.

I'm off to London to play my little part in the weekend of pervasive games that are going on up there: check this out for more:

www.gideonreeling.co.uk/hideandseek

**Update**

Thats was great fun, it's a brilliant idea: playing games in the city. It's a combination of flash mobing, game playing, performance, and excellent fun.

Plus I went to a great pub called the George Tavern, it's on Commercial Road and is a proper boozer.