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Edinburgh Fringe Literary Pub Crawl. The Parting Glass!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Tuesday, September 3, 2024,

We had a great time at the Edinburgh Fringe this August. It's the biggest open arts festival in the world! Writer of our London Literary Pub Crawl, Nick Hennegan, wrote one for Edinburgh. And we had a blast. And like our regular weekly London Pub Crawl he met some great new people!

Most of the Posts are now?yola-link-is-coming=true on www.Bohemi anBritain.com. Go have a look!

Edinburgh again..!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Monday, July 29, 2024, In : Bohemian Britain

As most of our posts are now on BohemainBritain.com, I'd ask you to have a look there. But it's nice to pop on to this site occasionally. We're doing an ambitious but logical production! Yep... Nick's extending the Literary Pub Crawl to the world's biggest open arts festival! Come and see us if you're in Edinburgh this August.

Shane MacGowan - a personal tribute

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Thursday, November 30, 2023, In : Bohemian Britain

Our writer, Nick Hennegan had the pleasure of meeting the Pogues frontman, Shane MacGowan - punk, traditionalist and perceived hell-raiser - who has passed away. They met in Soho, London. This is Nick's personal tribute on Bohemian Britain. Join us every Saturday on the Literary Pub Crawl at 5pm for a 'Rainy Night In Soho' and a 'Fairytale of New York... sorry... Soho!'

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Pint Night in Soho!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Thursday, March 23, 2023,

The French House Pub famously only serves half-pints. Apart from on Pint Night! When, for charity and for one day only, they serve pints like other pubs.

Traditionally, there’s a lot of things happen on pints day at The French. And usually the musician Suggs, from the band Madness, pours the 1st pint in the morning. (His Mom used to be a regular)

As you may gather from watching this little video, I started uploading live to Facebook etc but now just do them here. And the video was filmed towa...

Some of the London writers featured on the London Literary Pub Crawl.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Thursday, February 9, 2023, In : Bohemian Britain

London has been home to some of the most revered writers in history. Here are five of the most famous writers who have lived and worked in the city:

1.  Charles Dickens: The renowned English author was born in Portsmouth, but moved to London in his early twenties and wrote most of his beloved classics, such as Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, while living in the city. 

2.  George Orwell: The author of Animal Farm and 1984 spent much of his life in London and his novels we...

All the Best People at the Literary Pub Crawl!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, November 18, 2022, In : Bohemian Britain

Internationally acclaimed Poet Skye Bowdon and her father visiting London to collect her latest award, The #Foyle Prize for Creative Writing. They’re obviously aware that the visit would not be complete without experiencing the London Literary Pub Crawl!

How early failure can lead to success later in creative careers.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Wednesday, November 9, 2022,

A Bohemian lifestyle guide from BohemainBritain.com..!

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Failing early in our careers can make us question whether we are on the right path. We may look at people who have succeeded from the outset and wonder why it doesn’t come so easily to us. Classical violinist Nigel Kennedy, actor Natalie Portman and painter Pablo Picasso are examples of young geniuses who were successful early on.

But for some of us, failure at the beginning of our careers is important to ...

The Chiswick Book Festival party Part 3 - and new writing venue TheSpaceUK in Edinburgh!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Thursday, October 13, 2022,

Nick Hennegan was at the 14th Chiswick Book Festival, at the local author's party, where the writers have 2 minutes against the clock to talk about their books - or get ‘horned’ off! This is the final part. And we hear from the founders of The Space UK - enterprising venues at the Edinburgh Fringe.

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Much Ado About Nothing.’ (The First Half!) Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Wednesday, March 30, 2022,

From www.BohemianBritain.com

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It’s a big, bombastic, futuristic and vibrant Messina is this latest ‘Much Ad...

The Shark Is Broken - Theatre Review

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Thursday, October 28, 2021, In : Bohemian Britain

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theatre... oh, sorry... that should be water. Jaws analogies abound with the lovely little production that was postponed when Covid hit. Now they're back! See what our writer, Nick Hennegan thought about it on BohemianBritain.com

The Cast of The Shark Is Broken

The Edinburgh Festivals 2021 - new blog

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Monday, August 9, 2021, In : Travelers Tips

Writer Nick Hennegan is at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, just for a week - a different experience after the last few, full-on years. Follow him on our new website - Bohemian Britain

We're on hold till the end of April. Probably.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, March 20, 2020, In : Nick Hennegan

Well, what a start to the new year. The corona virus has taken everyone by surprise. And obviously, with the travel restrictions, bookings for our crawls have been cancelled from all over the world! If you have already booked a ticket, don't worry. As a small writers charity we're not able to do cash refunds, but your ticket will be valid for 10 years! And its transferrable so you can always gift it. Or, as lots of people are doing in the UK and the USA at the moment, you can 'gift' the ...
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Phew! 2019. Dickens in the USA and Romeo & Juliet in Edinburgh! Bring on Oliver, Knopfler and the Rolling Stones...

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Monday, December 30, 2019, In : London Life

It’s been an incredible 2019 in all sorts of ways. The worlds of politics on both sides of the pond have seen incredible events. I’m sure George Orwell is smiling, wherever he is. Or maybe grimacing! On a more domestic note, we sold out in the summer and I was at the Edinburgh festival fringe again with not one, but TWO new plays. Well, one new adaptation - a footballing version of Romeo and Juliet with a feisty Juliet - and a comedy (some would say tragi-comedy) I wrote a few years a...

Busy, busy, August!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Wednesday, August 21, 2019, In : Theatre News

(Amy Anderson and Kizzy Dunn in Nick Hennegan's Romeo and Juliet)

Apologies if you've been trying to book tickets to come on the London Literary Pub Crawl in August. We obviously love to see you and by supporting us you are supporting a new generation of artists. But we're nearly all at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - the biggest open arts festival in the world - and it means we're a bit short handed during August! The GREAT news is that both of our acclaimed productions - P.A.L.S. and Rome...
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Women in the world and the Women’s World Cup: extra time to reflect on the broader injustices women and girls face

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, May 31, 2019, In : Nick Hennegan

USA vs Spain in a 2019 friendly. EPA/MANUEL LORENZO

I'm preparing to take PALS and Romeo and Juliet to the Edinburgh Festival fringe this August. I want to try and redress the traditional male and female role balance a bit, particularly with Romeo and Juliet, so this article in The Conversation caught my eye...

Few events in women’s sport generate more attention than the football World Cup. Around 750m people watched the last tournament and, in June, France will host the 2019 competition, fe...

Brexit? What's that? No problem...!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Monday, April 8, 2019, In : Nick Hennegan

It looks like the UK might be exiting the European Union - So a British Exit - Brexit! I love the wordplay, if not the concept. I won't get into the politics here (nah, I don't think it's a great idea to leave, and I do remember when I was a kid we were known as the 'poor man of Europe' hence us joining the EEC, but...!) however, we have people from around the world come on our literary pub celebration, and one or two people have mentioned they'd heard stories of rationing and hoarding and w...
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Saturday, December 29, 2018, In : Simon Says.

We hope we'll see you in 2019. The highlights of 2018? Without doubt, presenting three classic plays at the Edinbugh Festival. Nick Hennegan's version of A Christmas Carol with Guy Masterson wowing the UK on tour. And this review from the Sunday Telegraph...

"WE DRIFT OFF INTO THE SOHO EVENING, COMFORTED THAT A VIVID APPROACH TO THE LIFE'S WORK OF SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS AUTHORS SHOWS THAT THERE IS AS MUCH TO BE LEARNT IN THEIR PUBS AS THEIR PAGES." SUNDAY TELEGRAPH.

The End of Edinburgh...

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, In : Nick Hennegan

For a writer, I've not been writing on here very much! Mainly due to the creative madness that is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. I actually had THREE productions I’d written and directed at the festival this year - A Christmas Carol, Henry V - Lion of England and Hamlet - Horatio’s Tale. Yes, it was a hectic, but a glorious and intense experience. Adapting Shakespeare’s Hamlet almost sent me as mad as the gloomy Dane himself. (Or was he mad? Or gloomy? Or just pretending. How mad ...

Verily, things be busy...!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Saturday, April 14, 2018, In : London's Literary Pubs

It’s been a busy few weeks in London Literary Pub Crawl land. We’ve had three parties this week, including our first ‘Coffee Shop’ Tour - the non-alcoholic version of the Literary Pub Crawl - for 35 young students from South Africa. If you’ve been to see us you’ll know there are a few ‘adult’ stories. We took those out of course and the whole group were fantastic and really seemed to get what we were offering.

Later we hosted a private tour with two Americans. Rusty was the Fa...

The Snow Must Go On...!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, March 9, 2018, In : Nick Hennegan

Sorry... I mean the SHOW must go on! And it is. We've had snow in London! It doesn't really happen very often and so when it does, we're not really prepared for it. I think the last time the snow settled here was around five years ago. Our cold spell only lasted about a week, which was quite long enough, thank you very much! But now the weather has warmed up and it feels properly like Spring. The daffodils are already out. And I'm pleased to report, that in spite of the weather, the L...
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Happy Valentine's Day!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Wednesday, February 14, 2018, In : Nick Hennegan

Happy Valentine' Day.

I think Anthony Burgess, a writer we feature in our show, summed up the day perfectly in 'The Paris Review.' He wrote, "The world has so much solace to offer: love, food, music, the immense variety of race and language, literature, the pleasure of artistic creation."

Yep!

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Harry Potter and The Final Draft..!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Saturday, September 2, 2017, In : Nick Hennegan

I'm writing THE screenplay. You know, the one that is going to sell for thousands - if not millions - and means I don't have to worry about paying the rent ever again. Because I can tell you, with rents as high as they are in London, it's a very big worry indeed!

I actually wrote the story for the screenplay when I was still at school in Birmingham. That's a few years ago, believe me! It's about a boy called George, who is 12 years old and when all the adults in the world disappear, includ...

52 Things To See and Do in London!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Tuesday, July 18, 2017, In : Travelers Tips

I've stopped my radio show for the summer and mainly as a result of emails I've had, I am going to write about a years worth of things to do in London. Yep, 52 weekly posts. Probably on a Friday. Although as a writer/boozer, it's a tall order and if you’ve been on our Literary Pub Crawl tour, you’ll know the trouble writer Jeffrey Bernard got into in the West End and Broadway hit, ‘Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell’ when trying to write a regular column. Penned by fellow boozer Keith Water...

What are your Sounds and Sonnets of Summer?

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Monday, July 3, 2017, In : London Life

Peoples Choice 1.

This is a rare occasion where our Podcast and Blog come together!

We've celebrated the Summer Solstice recently in the UK. In response to numerous emails and other requests, writer and presenter, Nick Hennegan has complied an hour of poetry and music special to him to start things off. But he'd like to hear your faves! Please send us YOUR list of summer songs and poems to summer@mavericktheatre.co.uk with a line about why they are special to you.

Here's Nicks list and memo...

Don't understand Shakespeare? You need Dylan Thomas Day!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, In : Nick Hennegan

Dylan Day - a celebration of the work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas - is a great idea for a number of reasons. Firstly it's always a good idea to celebrate art and literature. In a world full of Trump, May, Brexit, Syria and conflict, it's a very good idea to remind ourselves of the real reason we are all really here. For the sweet, satisfied moments of family, friendship, kindness, vision and imagination. I can’t remember who said a civilised society is only measured by the success of it...

20 years since we lost the Alan Ginsberg Beat, man!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Saturday, April 8, 2017, In : Nick Hennegan

Although our ‘manor’, as they say in all the best cockney gangster films, is most definitely London, there was an anniversary this week involving an American writer that I had to mention. - especially as he came to London for a while. Now, as you know, I love Americans. I’ve not met a bad ‘un yet. It’s interesting that since His Trumpness became boss of the good old US of A, there has been a huge rise in the sale of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984. Shows you what a good ...

If you are planning on coming to London, check out this creative guide.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, February 10, 2017, In : Hennegan's Best Bohemian Literary Pubs

Good Areas for Creative Pubs in London.

1. CHISWICK, LONDON, W4.
Chiswick (Listeni/ˈtʃɪzᵻk/ chiz-ick) is a district of West London, England.

Chiswick, or ‘leafy Chiswick’ as it seems to be known colloquially throughout London, is an interesting area for many reasons. Not least of which is the fact the London League of Irish Writers was established here in the 20th Century. This may have had something to do with the fact W.B. Yeats made his home here, as did the poet Alexander Pope, ...

The real Dylan Thomas?

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Sunday, January 29, 2017, In : Writers

It’s been great being involved with the new International Dylan Day. 14 May each year has been designated Dylan Day to mark the first time his play for voices ‘Under Milk Wood’ was performed in public in the USA. It’s a direct lift from Blooms Day, an annual event inspired by one of the lead characters in Ulysses, by James Joyce. We're going to celebrate it this year with an extra tour and extra Dylan content. Book now for 13th May - the Saturday before the day. We also have some id...

A Modern Dickensian Celebration this Christmas

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, December 2, 2016, In : Nick Hennegan

As you will know if you've been on the London Literary Pub Crawl, we are passionately enthusiastic about our unique bit of central London. Soho and Fitzrovia are arguably unique in the world. They are part city-centre, part artists enclave, part architectural delight and part hedonistic hot-spot.

Fitzrovia, once known as East Marylebone or North Soho, is particularly attractive to us. One hundred yards from the busiest shopping street in the world I love the fact that some Saturday afternoon...

Viva USA!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Thursday, November 17, 2016, In : Nick Hennegan

It's hard as a writer not to be effected by politics. George Orwell's life long literary mission was to make political writing an art form and he certainly achieved this. But I like to think I'm an optimist. What has happened in the USA, with the election of a reality star and businessman to the post of President, needs watching by all free thinking individuals. But we also need to understand how many in the world no longer trust 'them' - and see increasing globalisation changing their worlds...

Autumn in the Pub with Hemingway.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Sunday, November 6, 2016, In : London's Literary Pubs

So the clocks have gone back in the UK, marking the end of British Summer Time. It used to depress me a bit - the long dark nights and lack of sunshine. But actually, London takes on a different quality in the winter. But it is still quality! It's a good time for walks around some of our fantastic parks and heaths and pub wise there's a few little gems to check out.

Favourites have got to include The Dove on the riverside in Hammersmith in West London. You will have seen this pub if you've eve...

Why Bob Dylan deserves his Nobel prize in literature

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Saturday, October 29, 2016, In : Writers

We were all a bit surprised when Bob Dylan was awarded his Nobel prize for literature. Our Charles Dickens Christmas Crawl stops at the very pub where Bob Dylan gave his first ever public performance outside the USA! This is what Richard Brown, Reader in Modern Literature at the University of Leeds thought about it.

To the surprise of many, Bob Dylan has become the first singer-songwriter to win the Nobel prize in literature.

As the news broke, I was in the middle of teaching James Joyce to s...

Visit London -Ten Things You Should Know About the British Exit from Europe. ‘Brexit'

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, June 24, 2016, In : Nick Hennegan

1. Brexit is a word that has become used as a shorthand way of saying the UK leaving the EU - merging the words Britain and exit to get Brexit, in a same way as a Greek exit from the EU was dubbed Grexit in the past. A referendum took place in the UK on Thursday 23rd June, 2016. Everyone in the UK (almost) was eligible to vote, just like in a general election. But on the ballot paper were just two questions. Should the UK leave the EU or remain in the EU.

2. The E.U. - short for the Euro...

Memories of Dylan Thomas and chapel Wales.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Saturday, May 21, 2016, In : Writers

Having just celebrated the second Dylan Thomas day, we came across this on Facebook. Written by Josh Brown, it's self-explanatory. Nick Hennegan, our writer, really liked it and Josh gave us permission to repost it, so here it is. Thanks Josh!

Brown's Hotel, Laugharne, Wales.

I have meant to post about my visit to Laugharne in the 70's since joining the [Dylan Thomas Facebook] group. Here it is........

I was born in a snowstorm in 1947, 6 years before Dylan died. My mo...

Literary Festivals in London and the UK

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Saturday, January 23, 2016, In : Writers

It's the New Year and you should come and visit us in London as soon as you can. Outside of town, check out some of the Literary Festivals we host in the UK.

There are now literary festivals throughout the year in most areas of the country. The largest ones include:

The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, at the end of March
The Hay Festival, in late May
Edinburgh International Book Festival, in August (Hear Nick Hennegan at the 2015 Festival on our podcast page)
Cheltenham Festival of Literatu...
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What makes a Film Flop?

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, January 8, 2016, In : Nick Hennegan

Soho, as you many know - and you will if you've been on our Literary Pub Crawl - is the centre of many creative industries in the UK, including the film industry. We're toying with the idea of making a feature film in 2016 and came across this blog post by Suman Ghosh. who is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Bath Spa University.

Some films succeed, others don’t. Success comes in many forms. Some films are an instant hit from the opening night, some are slower on the uptake while others ge...

Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. in Birmingham!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, December 11, 2015, In : Nick Hennegan

It's exciting being back in Birmingham at the Old Joint Stock Pub and Theatre. And last years London sellout version of my A Christmas Carol has done just that again - this time in Birmingham. Here's what I wrote for the theatre programme.

We all know Charles Dickens' remarkable Christmas story. He wrote it in 1843, just as his fame and success as a writer was fading. The novella has not been out of print since! I first came across the book as a boy. I borrowed a children's version of the sto...

Raymond Briggs and Creative Socio-paths!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Saturday, November 21, 2015, In : Nick Hennegan

As you know, life in the arts here in Soho is a constant financial struggle and I’ve been looking at an author Crowdfunding platform called Unbound as a way of helping out. As I have both Charles Dickens AND William Shakespeare lined up to provide an introduction to my next book - more about that later perhaps - I’m thinking of using the service, if they’ll have me.
I was checking them out and came across this, from Raymond Briggs’ pitch of a book he’s hosting on the platform. For ...
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The Wind Doth Blow and the Leaves Do Fall. Lots of news.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Thursday, October 22, 2015, In : Nick Hennegan

If we don’t do a newsletter, Maddie, Princess of Soho, (wrong sex and too young yet to be A Queen!) will shout at Nick Hennegan. Me. So, lots to share with you.

If you are in London this weekend, check out The Bloomsbury Festival. Full of great stuff, they’re back after a break. Find our podcast about it here.

In our Maverick Theatre/Literary Pub Crawl world, our sponsorship with the lovely Fitzrovia Partnership comes to an end this month. We love them and we think we h...

Autumn Events in London. And Spreadsheets. Our Friends.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, October 2, 2015, In : Nick Hennegan

I should be writing here more often, but to be honest, running the London Literary Pub Crawl takes a chunk of time. We've done incredibly well over our first year or so, but I've decided we could do much better, so we're looking to raise £30k for marketing. It'll make us a real attraction in London and my Chinese actors stand poised, ready to go.

But we're writers, not accountants. Fortunately I've found a brilliant accountant who is able to frame my terms of reference in accounting speak ...
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We've moved! The Fitzroy Tavern closes!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, July 17, 2015, In : Nick Hennegan

The roots of the Literary Pub Crawl lie in the Fitzroy Tavern. I was doing my Masters at the University of London and looking for a cheap pint. My mate from Birmingham, filmmaker Andy Bloom, suggested I could get a cheaper pint at the Fitzroy, as the pub was run by the Sam Smiths Brewery and they were considerably cheaper than other pubs in the area. He also told me about the Writers and Artists Bar at the pub, which certainly appealed.

So I was nursing my cheap pint downstairs and couldn't ...
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Fangs for the memories: death of Christopher Lee draws a veil over golden years of horror

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, June 12, 2015, In : Soho

Love at first bite. Hammer Horror, CC BY-SA

HAMMER STUDIOS HAD AN OFFICE IN SOHO.

They say your first Dracula marks you for life and that you will forever associate the Count with the actor who played him. My first experience of the most famous vampire of old time was Christopher Lee’s performance for Hammer Studios – and it has definitely stayed with me ever since.

I still remember watching his imposing on-screen figure, a mountain of a man, halfway between the quaintly aristocratic and th...

Interview With An Actor.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, In : Simon Says.

She's the Queen of Kings at the moment - the star of Henry V - Lion of England at The Wheatsheaf Pub in Fitzrovia, London W1. Produced by our theatre company Maverick, and written by our writer Nick Hennegan, we asked Simon Plant to go talk to star, Eleanor Dillon-Reams about being Shakespeare's most famous King.

Eleanor Dillon-Reams.

Henry V is one of Shakespeare’s biggest plays. How come you are the only actor?

The piece has been partly rewritten, edited and chopped up to a short and snap...

We missed you!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, May 15, 2015, In : Theatre News

OLIVIER AWARDS 2015 WITH MASTERCARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Sunday, April 12, 2015, In : Theatre News

This just in....

The Young Vic’s A View From The Bridge takes home Best Revival, Best Actor for Mark Strong and Best Director for Ivo Van Hove.
Hampstead Theatre’s West End transfer of Sunny Afternoon wins the most awards for any single production and is crowned MasterCard Best New Musical
Dame Angela Lansbury receives her first Olivier for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Blithe Spirit and Penelope Wilton is named Best Actress for Taken At Midnight
Mike Bartlett takes home two prizes ...

Who will be the next Dr Who...?

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, In : Nick Hennegan

...sorry... Henry V! It only occurred to me whilst talking to a former Dr Who actor, that for our Henry V we will be recruiting the fifth actor to reincarnate the role since we first performed it back in 1992 - a bit like the famous BBC series does!

We're actively searching now for a new actor to take on the huge role! It's always been a big ask! The actor is onstage constantly for over an hour, has to play twelve characters with conviction and fight the Battle of Agincourt at the end!

Injur...
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That's (Animal Farm) showbiz!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Thursday, February 5, 2015, In : Nick Hennegan

Bummer! We had the rights to perform George Orwell's Animal Farm for all of 8 weeks, till the 'principle agent' changed their mind and decided to cancel our license. It probably means a commercial theatre producer has decided to try a production. Which is good for us fans of Orwell, but not so good for WE fans of Orwell.

A bit like when we performed 'Under Milk Wood' in the Wheatsheaf in Fitzrovia, London, the pub where Dylan Thomas met his wife. It was commercially stupid to mount such a...
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Review of 2014.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Monday, January 12, 2015, In : Nick Hennegan

We started 2014 in the shadow of the previous year.

My experiment with theatre in a pub, as opposed to Pub Theatre as it's understood in London, had proved very successful in 2013. I managed to get the rights to produce Under Milk Wood on the 60th anniversary of Dylan Thomas' death. It proved a success in a number of ways, but mainly though conversations with the excellent veteran theatre director John Adams. John was not available to direct, but he recommended a former student of his who ...

Dylan, my Dylan.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Saturday, November 8, 2014, In : Nick Hennegan

So the Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia Festival is now over. Although only really on the periphery of the organisation it's been a part of my life and certainly large in my thoughts for most of this year.
Pub crawl walks were part of Griff Rhys Jones' original thinking for the festival which he conceived with Dylan's granddaughter, Hannah Ellis and actor Jason Morrell. It became far more than a tour of Dylan Thomas' Fitzrovia Pubs of course. And I have to say the final, fantastic Gala Performa...

National UK Poetry Day, by our writer and producer, Nick!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Thursday, October 2, 2014, In : Nick Hennegan

Thursday, 2 October 2014

National Poetry Day - have a go!

I've been spending a lot of time recently with the poetry of Dylan Thomas and numerous writers for the London Literary Pub Crawl and the forthcoming Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia Weekend in London. More about that later. But in spite of the genius of Thomas, Heany and dozens of others, I've found I quite like writing poetry. I've no idea of technical form or how to do it or even why I like writing it, but it's an interesting way of encapsu...

Maverick's Summer Newsletter - Our First E-Book!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, August 22, 2014, In : Nick Hennegan

(I know... Maddie says a newsletter a month and the last one was June. But I've been busy. And now we have Katie. More about her next time!)

Norman The Brummie, Fox Hunting in Kingstanding and Lest We Forget.

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What a great summer it's been so far! Although Hyde Park was starting to resemble Australia. The grass had turned yellow and parched. But we're loving the hot weather. And we know it ain't gonna last.  

100 years ago it was also an unusual summer. We declared war on...

London Writers and Poverty. How the Lit Pub Crawl started. Part One

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Friday, August 15, 2014, In : Nick Hennegan

It's me birthday! Thanks! Feel free to send cards. Or cash... :-)

Birthdays are often a time for reflection. When I first got the idea for the London Literary Pub Crawl, it was because I was taking my M.A. and I was flat broke. In spite of never having received a grant for education, for reasons known only to the Education Dept I had to fund everything myself. It was tough - not only the fees, but living in one of the most expensive cities in the world. But I don't think we'd have done t...
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Referee!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Sunday, July 20, 2014, In : Nick Hennegan

So the world cup is over. But here in London, things are still buzzing! The weather has been fantastic and looks like staying so. And we've been nominated as one of the Top Ten Cultural things to do in London! That's fantastic. So if you are thinking about visiting London this year, come and see us. We've been somewhat overwhelmed by demand and so we're training up some new actors and we've added extra dates. We're looking at a new box office system too. At the moment director Katie and ...
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Famous Writers of London

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Saturday, June 14, 2014, In : Writers

Over the years, London has been the home of many famous writers. Whilst not all of London’s writers were born in the city, many considered it to be the place where they belonged. Here we will talk through some of the famous writers that resided in London and their well-known works of literature

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London has been home to some of the most revered writers in history. Here are five of the most famous writers who have lived and worked in the city:

1. Charles Dickens: The renowned English author was born in Portsmouth, but moved to London in his early twenties and wrote most of his beloved classics, such as Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, while living in the city.

2. George Orwell: The author of Animal Farm and 1984 spent much of his life in London and his novels we...

A Bohemian lifestyle guide from BohemainBritain.com..!

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"WE DRIFT OFF INTO THE SOHO EVENING, COMFORTED THAT A VIVID APPROACH TO THE LIFE'S WORK OF SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS AUTHORS SHOWS THAT THERE IS AS MUCH TO BE LEARNT IN THEIR PUBS AS THEIR PAGES." SUNDAY TELEGRAPH.

Thursday, 2 October 2014

National Poetry Day - have a go!

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