Strange Town

I got an email from a woman offering me a story.  A random act and an invite to a very strange town in Lancashire.

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Good Moaning World

What bugs you?  What really, really pisses you off?  Drivers?  Council?  Littler?

 

Well listen to this funny rant by your very own Joanne (Foxy Wharton) and Mark D. Spot. 

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Superstition

See a penny pick it up the rest of the day you'll have good luck.  If you listen to this on a day with a Y in it you'll have a better life.

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Be a working Actor

   

Hello, I've been knocking about in this game for many years. I remember the day I left Arts Education in London and thinking "what do I do now"? I had no agent, no work and didn't really know how to go about it. Drama school was great for many things, but teaching the business it was not.

 Personally, I was hard working and imaginative (obviously, I'm an actor) and I soon began to work out how to work. I went from a co-operative agency in Nottingham to one of the biggest agencies in the world. I have worked in profit share all the way up to Hollywood movies and as I look around I see young performers struggling to get started. We at Hard Graft have a long history of employing young actors, but we can't do everything. So what can we do? Anyone who has worked for so long in this industry sees it differently to you.  I now produce theatre, so I'm on the other side of the table and I see mistakes actors make, mistakes I've made myself. So, what if I offered a 'How to work as an actor course'? If there are enough of you I will book a room and share my knowledge. Probably be £20 each for the afternoon. Pop your details here and I'll get back to you.

I want to act.

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Two, too hot in Tenerife

Let's face it, why would you want to spend January in the Great British weather?  We don't we like to feel the sun on our faces and the warm African wind in our hair.  

 

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Tenerife

Every January, like a sparrow Mark and Jo migrate to warmer climes.  This year we have travelled to Tenerife, the largest of the Canary islands off west Africa.  

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I love the past, but I couldn’t live there.

We have been thinking a lot about the past twenty years. How we have built a story telling machine that entertains people, all people with comedy and drama. I’ve mentioned Thick as Thieves, how we took it from nothing and turned it into something special, something award winning and successful. I have gloated about being innovative and a front runner in pop ups and site specific and adventure projects like Poles Apart and Coast to Coast.

As 2018 begins we have sat down and thought about the future and we’ve come to the conclusion that all those thoughts and conversations have been about work in the past. Bringing stuff back. Well, bugger that. I have very little time to leave a lasting memory on this planet and I’ve got to start, as ever, by looking forward, not back. Back is comfortable and fuzzy and warm, but tied. Forward is frightening, poverty potential, lunacy, but exciting.

So it’s January 9th 2018, we as ever are skint, but me as ever has a million and one ideas about telling tales.

Stay tuned friends, it’s going to be an exciting, roller coaster of a year and I want to put you at the centre of it.

See you soon

Mark