Bob Fischer
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Guess this might be of interest, but if not - no worries.
I've written a play called 'Simon Perkins' Lurgy', set in Middlesbrough in September 1974. Simon is a 15-year-old lad stuck on his gran's settee, suffering from some unspecified grottiness. Addicted to the Open University broadcasts on daytime TV, he is understandably alarmed when the on-air continuity announcer begins to open conversations with him, and seems to be promising him a better life on the other side of the TV screen...
We cast actual Teesside teenager Ethan Warren as Simon, and he was briliant. And the announcer is played by genuine 1970s BBC continuity man Roger Limb, who later went on to join the Radiophonic Workshop. Roger threw himself into it, and his voice still gives me tingles. The main score is by Teesside musician Ben Hopkinson, once of By Toutatis and Kingsley Chapman & The Murder.
The whole play is an hour long, and it's available for CD and/or download tomorrow.
There's a trailer here:
And it's already had some lovely national reviews. 4/5 in the new SFX Magazine ("Haunting, poignant and brimming with nostalgia, it's one to listen to with the lights out") and 5/5 in Starbust, which really took me aback.
www.starburstmagazine.com
If you want to find out more, or even order a copy, head here:
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Plug over. But on a personal level, it's been a long haul and hard work putting this together, and I'm terrified of it being "out there". But I couldn't be prouder of everyone involved. Thanks!
I've written a play called 'Simon Perkins' Lurgy', set in Middlesbrough in September 1974. Simon is a 15-year-old lad stuck on his gran's settee, suffering from some unspecified grottiness. Addicted to the Open University broadcasts on daytime TV, he is understandably alarmed when the on-air continuity announcer begins to open conversations with him, and seems to be promising him a better life on the other side of the TV screen...
We cast actual Teesside teenager Ethan Warren as Simon, and he was briliant. And the announcer is played by genuine 1970s BBC continuity man Roger Limb, who later went on to join the Radiophonic Workshop. Roger threw himself into it, and his voice still gives me tingles. The main score is by Teesside musician Ben Hopkinson, once of By Toutatis and Kingsley Chapman & The Murder.
The whole play is an hour long, and it's available for CD and/or download tomorrow.
There's a trailer here:
SIMON PERKINS' LURGY - STARBURST Magazine
by Alan Boon Fifteen-year-old Simon Perkins is ill. He has lumps on his legs, he’s always tired, and his ankles swell up if he doesn’t keep them elevated. His mum and dad have packed him off to his gran’s house in Cleveland – not the one in America, the one in the north east – […]
www.starburstmagazine.com
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