Just past the halfway point… Pete kicked off discussions about how to follow on from the CiB Shop, The Little Chill looked like fun and involved pretty much every promoter in town and Supersonic’s line-up started coming together. There was a lot of kerfuffle around the filming of Turbulence, with lots of people getting involved … [Read more…]
Summer brought with it degree show time of year and also the first Birmingham European Theatre Festival (which I’m pleased to see will be back again this year). Listings started coming out for the HMV Institute too. The days were getting longer, which was probably just as well for Rhubarb Rhubarb, who seemed to doing loads. … [Read more…]
We’re taking a bit of a break here but CiB will return in the new year. In the meantime, I’ll be posting a few ‘year in review’ things to remind you that 2010 was alright really, and that all the talk of (and worrying over) money over recent months shouldn’t detract from some great art, … [Read more…]
On Saturday night I took a couple of (out of town) friends to AE Harris for the Birmingham European Theatre Festival. We turned up a bit late so only managed to catch the last piece – one which would’ve been a fantastic spoof on art student theatre if it wasn’t for the fact they were … [Read more…]
Applications are now open to companies across Europe for the first ever BE Festival, which will take place over four days: 30 June – 3 July 2010 The venue will be A E Harris where, as Stan’s Cafe point out, a fundraiser will be held for this event: Temple Theatre are going to be performing … [Read more…]
The Challenge of Change was an event about the future of West Mids theatre. All the notes have been written up and presented quite nicely on this website. I’ve only had a glance through the discussions and the proposals put forward but the Birmingham European Theatre Festival sounds interesting. A lot of discussions seem to … [Read more…]