It's a radio play, broadcast-ready, by Robert Cole
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Thanks to everyone for supporting my son Maurice and the Magdalen Choral Evensong gig. It transpires that Mo led the responses - the solo parts - which is basically pretty very actually cool. Most importantly, he enjoyed it. Herewith the link.
Live from the Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Nativity Uncut. Now with a flyer for the preview event at the Brockley Brewery on 29th Aug. 7pm for a 7.30 start.
It's a radio play, broadcast-ready, by Robert Cole. Featuring Nichola Woolley, Fred Thomas, Emma Mulkern, and Mark Stevenson; with music by Tony Parker, The Molotovs, Toxic Hops, Peter Krijgsman, Colin Barlow, Tim Ambler, Rachel Page, Bruce Lawson, and Mark Maddrell. Caricatures by Chris Duggan. Art by Nomis. Recorded at Brockley Studios by Dave Beauclerr.
It's a radio play, broadcast-ready, by Robert Cole. Be the first to hear it at an informal event on 29 Aug '23 in the Brockley Brewery.
That lad Maurice Cole is singing with this lot tonight if anyone is at a loose end in Pimlico tonight. It will be, to quote The Housemartins, quite good.
Quel che viver desia libero e sciolto... fugga i lacci d’amore! (Who desires to live free and untethered…flee the bonds of love!) anon. C17th. If like us, you feel this is a somewhat pessimistic view... join us and enjoy an evening of mostly less cynical love songs!
THE GREAT NORTH WOOD
So, yay. Welcome y’all to the Great North Wood.
Grown anciently on London Clay, it stretches
from Selhurst in the south to Deptford
up by Old Man Thames; from Streatham in the west
to eastward facing Beckenham. Mortal
bricks and mortar have displaced the sylvan
furlongs of years gone by. But I, and all
the sprites, will still make mischief where we can.
Surprises are best. Sometimes as a fox
we will appear, a cat, or parakeet;
nosing in the alleys, looking in the nooks;
at nights, in days; in wakefulness and sleep.
Know, ye denizens, that where’er you rove
you’ll not be lonely in these shadowed groves.
Herewith a link to the trailer for 'Nativity Uncut', our film currently looking for support.
Nativity Uncut The nativity story retold for grown-ups. Nativity Uncut is a dark comedy, a contemporary fable set in south-east London. Introducing Jack 'n' Diane, a good bloke called Christian, and his much-misunderstood friend Jude Scarryharte. £225.00 raised of £20,000.00 goal 28 Days left 4 Ba...
Today, 4pm? Last chance to catch ‘Fables from the Great North Wood’ by Robert Cole. This time in the beautiful Wild Cat Wilderness, including live music from The Mocktales. All for just £6 a ticket via eventbrite or at the door. Find the set through the gate beside no 53 Riverview Park Road, Catford. SE6 4PL.
https://bit.ly/FablesGNW29aug21
Serious question. Has anyone had a decent response from the FB advertising malark?
Following two sell out performances in Brockley, ‘Fables from the Great North Wood’ is coming to Catford SE6 & the stunning outdoor setting of The Wild Cat Wilderness.
Sunday 29th August 4pm
Music from The Mocktales who will be raising money for the Mizen Foundation - a charity set up in the memory of Jimmy Mizen to support young people to become change-makers and peace-makers in their communities.
Tickets £6 via
https://bit.ly/2VnsESF
Thanks to Nichola Woolley, The Mocktales and Fourth Reserve for a truly magical evening. Presenting ‘Fables from the Great North Wood’ by Robert Cole in the sunshine under the trees was wonderful.
Watch this space…there’s more News from the Wood coming down the line.
Only 5 tickets left!
‘Fables from the Great North Wood’ with The Mocktales in the Buckthorne Cutting Nature Reserve - a remnant of the Great North Wood. Quite an experience for only £5.
Sunday 6pm to 8pm
https://bit.ly/2UNO5vi
Artwork - ‘Ravens’ by Nomis
Roll up, roll up. This is the first staging outdoors, in an actual slice of the Great North Wood. Trees and everything! Also with live music (again a first) from The Mocktales. Tickets are selling and there are ony 36 seats. If you can't come (or don't want to) please help by keeping your fingers crossed for fine weather. https://bit.ly/3xfHEPR
News from the Wood. The Mocktales have agreed to play with the next outing on 18 July in Brockley. They are brilliant. Nichola Woolley Mizen Foundation Robert Cole
Horses in the Great North Wood. In Croydon, close to the old London airport, about 50 yards from that wonderful GNW feature that is the Purely Way.
Grasses in the Great North Wood.
Lunch time in the Great North Wood.
First outing of ‘Fables from the Great North Wood’ on 3jun21as part of . Thanks to Nichola Woolley playing Diane and Michael Sookhan (Jack), Tony Parker for the superb classical-ish guitar, Nomis for the art, and for pics. Feel the force.
Alert for Geeks@fablesGNW . . . 'Fables from the Great North Wood' is structured like one of the Medieval English Mystery Plays as depicted in the engraving pic attached. The original Mysteries, some of the oldest forms of English drama, were performed on the streets of towns such as York and Coventry with actors who were carpenters, boatbuilders, stone masons (etc) in real life. Performance came as a Pageant: think Notting Hill Festival meets Lord Mayor's Show. Anyway, the day of performance was declared a holiday and the Holy Day in question was the Feast of Corpus Christi. The date moves every year in tandem with Easter Sunday . . . yet by pure chance the first performance of 'Fables from the Great North Wood' at Brockley Brewery as part of the Brockley Max festival today - 3 June 2021 - is the Feast of Corpus Christi. That.
Fables from the Great North Wood
Found on Google from news.coventrysociety.org.uk
OK so I am hardly trying to fill the Albert Hall - but a sell-out premiere is a sell-out premiere. Ideas, please about where to take it next. .cm2018
Serendipity alert. The Mocktales are playing the BrockleyMax festival, as is my 'Fables from the Great North Wood'. Better still, they are raising money for the Mizen Foundation. The link: Jimmy's story is one of the central references in Fables from the Great North Wood Brockley Max Mizen Foundation Nichola Woolley https://fb.watch/5P4HLAnB2a/
REVEAL: New art by Nomis of the six ravens (in four seasons) which appear with Jack, Diane and a sh*tload of fairy dust in 'Fables from the Great North Wood' by Robert Cole. Tickets at eventbrite. Thurs 3 June, 7.30, £5. In an actual brewery.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fables-from-the-great-north-wood-tickets-150007758243
Limited availability cos of Covid.
Brockley Max Hilly Fields, SE4 New Writing Brockley London Evening Standard
Tickets available for the first-ever performance of Fables from the Great North Wood by Robert Cole. It is a mystery play set in London with Nichola Woolley as Diane, Michael Sookhan as Jack. With six ravens and a sh*tload of fairy dust. Tickets available from Eventbrite Art by Nomis. Music by Tony Parker....
https://robertspcole.com/roll-up-roll-up/
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