Randwick and beyond

Played the first double bill of The Fearless Navigator and Mad Jack and the Severn Bore last Saturday to a great audience of 60 people at Randwick Village Hall. Its always strange when you do a performance for the first time as you're never to sure whether it's going to work, whether what you've created is easy to undersatnd or has enough depth to it.
As I'd already performed Fearless Navigator was very confident with howard Blackburn's story but Mad Jack is a different kind of character. The real man from what I know from reading about him and talking to his sons was almost a comic book hero from the Commando magazine series. As such he comes across to a large part as quite cold and emotionless.
His adventures are fantastic but have I found the real man in the script and performance. Within the script I've added elements which make him more than this. It was whilst watching a documentary about Eddie Izzard that something was said which seemed to sum Jack up. Eddie was talking about his dad (a career soldier) and about his mother who died when he was 7. He said something along the lines of grieving along the army lines - without emotion. So maybe I have got Mad Jack right!
The audience feedback afterwards was great and lighting and sound courtesy of Mr. Broadbent were brilliant (no pun intended) as well - adding just the right amount to the performance.
Next show in the series is at Nailsworth School for 60 children and then on Saturday we are doing a one off for Help for Heroes at the New Inn in Gloucester. £ 5.00 a ticket and all profits go to the charity. Come along and find out more about the first man to surf the Severn.
After that it's the Sub Rooms Cafe on Wednesday June 15th, before an extra gig at Yorkley on Friday 17th June and then down to Devon. the good news is that we also now have an event which is being publicised on the Olympics website as we are doing a show at Nailsworth on 23rd July, one year before the 2012 Olympics kick off. Lots to do, lots of excitement and hopefully lots of fun!