Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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I've gone back to The Storyteller Blog - this is not good.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Edinburgh Blog

No reviews as yet; we did a preview last night and I managed to get the show down to 45 minutes as opposed to the 90 minutes or so when I did it before. I had to omit the poem by WB Yeats; not necessarily for time as it took only 2 minutes 22 seconds; how do I know and how can I be so precise about it's length? Because I would do it over some Celtic music – beautiful music I might add – and the licence to use the music over here is too expensive for the tiny show we are doing so I dropped it.

It's free in America as the radio stations don't pay royalties over there – they just play them for free as they don't want to pay money to foreign countries; I'm ambivalent about it as I like to use it for free but on the other hand the songwriters and record makers should be paid.
After our dress rehearsal the other night we went to a great pub called The Captain's Bar; it's a pub with a literary tradition and on Monday (tomorrow) I am due to read my short story in there – The Gold Watch – at 7:30 just after I finish my show on the opening night; that is if I can access it on my other blog as I don't have a copy with me.


That may come as a surprise to Chris as I forgot tell him last night.


So that's it for now till we get some reviews; the photo above is from the dress rehearsal and not too clear but you can get the gist.

Friday, August 6, 2010

Edinburgh blog at the 'Fringe' festival




Welcome to this new blog – the Edinburgh blog at the 'Fringe' festival.

To bring you up to date, if you haven't been a follower of my other blog – The Storyteller – I am in Edinburgh with my one-man-show A Bit of Irish.I lost my guitar for a while with FedEx and it finally showed up with a crack on the neck so I had to buy another one and I'll make a claim with FedEx when I have the time.

I usually do my show dressed in a tuxedo or, as my brother protests, a dinner jacket and black trousers (there we are Pat I didn't says pants) as in the original picture; the first thing I usually do when I do my show at a theatre is to take the suit to the nearest dry cleaners to the theatre. This is what I did on Tuesday and when we went to collect it yesterday it wasn't there. The man at the cleaners said he didn't know what had happened to it.

The suit wasn't cleaned on the premises but sent out to another and we have to go today to see if it has turned up – by the way in dollars the cost of the cleaning is around $16.50 which is about three time as much as in Los Angeles.

I'm sure it'll be there today.

We did the technical rehearsal yesterday and we had 90 minutes to complete it. An old friend of mine, Chris Hickman, from drama school days has volunteered to help me do the show and there he is, above, getting to know the board and the pictures of me are at Gullane Village Hall rehearsing with my new guitar. Gullane is one of the most idyllic places on earth and I would seriously consider living there; but I can never see it happening.

Today I do a dress rehearsal and the first preview is tomorrow so let's hope for good reviews.

lost post!!!

Welcome to this new blog – the Edinburgh blog at the 'Fringe' festival.
To bring you up to date, if you haven't been a follower of my other blog – The Storyteller – I am in Edinburgh with my one-man-show A Bit of Irish.
I lost my guitar for a while with FedEx and it finally showed up with a crack on the neck so I had to buy another one and I'll make a claim with FedEx when I have the time.
I usually do my show dressed in a tuxedo or, as my brother protests, a dinner jacket and black trousers (there we are Pat I didn't says pants) as in the original picture; the first thing I usually do when I do my show at a theatre is to take the suit to the nearest dry cleaners to the theatre. This is what I did on Tuesday and when we went to collect it yesterday it wasn't there. The man at the cleaners said he didn't know what had happened to it.
The suit wasn't cleaned on the premises but sent out to another and we have to go today to see if it has turned up – by the way in dollars the cost of the cleaning is around $16.50 which is about three time as much as in Los Angeles.
I'm sure it'll be there today.
We did the technical rehearsal yesterday and we had 90 minutes to complete it. An old friend of mine, Chris Hickman, from drama school days has volunteered to help me do the show and there he is, above, getting to know the board and the pictures of me are at Gullane Village Hall rehearsing with my new guitar. Gullane is one of the most idyllic places on earth and I would seriously consider living there; but I can never see it happening.
Today I do a dress rehearsal and the first preview is tomorrow so let's hope for good reviews.

This was written the other day (Friday) and I don't know where's it's been. It just showed up.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

A BIT OF IRISH at the Edinburgh Festival.

Here is a little history about my show:

"When Irish Eyes Dot Com" was a solo show presented and performed by actor Chris Sullivan, which had a sell out world premiere performance on Saint Patrick's Day, 2000 at Santa Monica Playhouse, California.

A change of title to 'IRISH EYES' was sufficient enough for a mini British tour in April 2002 and a further title change to 'CHRIS SULLIVAN 'S ONE MAN IRISH SHOW' was for The Edinburgh Festival where it ran at the KOMEDIA THEATRE at the Roman Eagle Lodge for the month of August in 2002.

The permanent title now is A BIT OF IRISH.

A BIT OF IRISH is an Irish celebration which includes audience participation, storytelling in the Irish tradition, music, poetry and limericks.

In 2010, Chris is taking the show with its new title back to the Edinburgh Festival.

The show introduces Chris Sullivan's Ireland; life from the point of view of an Irish immigrant family child in post war Britain and the consequences – strange accents, stranger people and bullying teachers at school; even pretending to be a protestant to join the boy scouts.

Sullivan shows that none of the songs, traditions or Irish humour were lost to immigration.
Apart from traditional and funny Irish songs and stories Chris introduces new songs, tales of Dublin characters and leads in audience participation in this evening of Irish charm.

A BIT OF IRISH with Chris Sullivan, is due to open at The Space at The Royal College of Surgeons, Nicholson Street, Edinburgh, ED8 9DW.

Box Office number 0845 508 8515.

The show time? 6.10 pm on Monday August 9th and is due to run through Saturday August 28th. No shows on Sundays.

For progress and reviews and maybe some pictures of Edinburgh and the show, visit this site and I promise to put all reviews up here – not just the 'good' ones.