Scratch Night

A gazillion theatre points to the Tobacco Factory for another excellent night of work-in-progress. Just as many are due to the fine burghers of Bristol who turned out in droves for the second time. There seemed to be a similar number of people as last time, so that's around 150! It is just brilliant to be getting that number of people through the door on a night like this.

If you're looking for a double dose of Mr Rapley (and who isn't?) then get yourself down to the Tobacco Factory in Bristol for the Prototype scratch night.

I'll be presenting some of my own work and also working with Fairground Theatre on a larger piece of physical experimentation. Here are the details:

Tickets: £3

I've just come back from a great scratch night called Prototype at the Tobacco Factory. I just want to say a bit about why I thought it was important and what, for me, it says about the strength of theatre in Bristol.

Right from the start, as the audience walked in, I was amazed at the number of people who turned up, I've done a mass of scratch nights across the country, including some of the most well know ones and i have never seen such a large audience, (later i found out that there were 148 people there!) 148 people, for a scratch night! I've been to scratches were there where only 6 members of the public in the audience and two of them were my mum and dad.

Seeing so many people supporting up coming, and unfinished work with their time and money (even if it was only £3 on the door) is really encouraging and it shows how committed and engaged the audience in Bristol is.

Rock and Roll scratch night-a-rama!

Just performed at a really well attended and wonderfully informal scratch night up at Residence. It was organised by the members of Kettle of Fish, a collaborative theatre company based at Residence, so that they could try out their latest work, Post-show, before they take it to Freshly Scratched at the BAC this Saturday: Details! Check the box office on 020 7223 2223.

They've got a high quality snippet of a show, with loads of beautiful visual and narrative elements. They had obviously done plenty of work making sure people knew about the show, because there must have been over 30 people in attendance.

I piggy backed on in there with 7 minutes of new material for 10 Ways to Die on Stage, which i will be doing up at the BAC's Freshly Scratched, this time at 8pm on the Friday night. Thank goodness I did because it has reassured me no end and as always the feedback helps the show develop. Special thanks on that point to Alex Bradley and Tom Wainwright for their comments.

It was just great to see the space being used in a creative way. It's a perfect venue for low to no pressure showings of work in progress.

Here's to a Residence double whammy of success this weekend!

I have a new batch of photos from the Pilot 12 back in September, the performance that night was good, and the photos are great so check them out. Again many thanks to Simon, Katie and Jane, as well as the folks at theliftcreativeservices.com for the photos.