Broken Leg Theatre

Established in 2008 our company performed our first production in the basement of a small café and have since gone on to perform two home-grown plays at the Nightingale Theatre, the Hackney Empire and London’s Greenwich Theatre.

Broken Leg is currently funded by Arts Council England to research our latest production, Three Generations.

Thursday 19 April 2012

Wet and windy Bognor

We went to Bognor Regis yesterday to persuade (ok, force) people to come and see our show on Wednesday. My word, it was windy and rainy. We went to the seafront to give flyers to hotels and we were violently battered by the wind. We walked along, our heads bowed, as rain whipped our faces.
Nothing would stop us in our pursuit to tell the people of Bognor about our play; we climbed through hedges, we...we...well we got wet, that's dedication enough isn't it? I bet Laurence Olivier never had to do that. I mean, we didn't even stop for a coffee!
Before we went on our road trip, we had a rehearsal and it looks as though everything is shaping up nicely. We are having our dress rehearsal on Saturday. Oh I just can't wait to put my fuchsia pink hat on again. I bet the others can't either as they usually can't stop laughing when I put it on. Meanies!

Jade

Tuesday 10 April 2012

It's nearly upon us!!

Well, it's time to dust off the old costumes and give it to 'em!!

I personally cannot wait to don my 'Clive jeans'!! I have never before witnessed quite such a long zip in my life! I get knackered every time I go to the toilet!! Much excitement also about the bright white and blue trainers.

Clive Senior has got serious style! And don't you forget it!

Andy x


Thursday 5 April 2012

Clive and Clive Junior


Just suspend disbelief and you're not in the garden, but a front room in London.

Cheer up Tom!


He's not really in a bad mood- he's in character obviously!

Jade singing in the garden


Jade practises singing a Dawn Penn number- the neighbours upstairs turned the radio off to have a listen to her- or maybe they thought I'd just put the CD on, she does have a fabulous voice!

Spring!

Yessss, so spring is finally here, and we celebrated this by having a rehearsal in Anna's garden. It felt great to be practising the play with the sun beating down on us, even if was a bit difficult waltzing around flower pots.
It's not long now until we will be performing at Regis Centre and it is all hands on deck with publicity and marketing. I am tweeting madly and we have been bombarding people with eflyers and Facebook event invites. We are even planning a trip to Bognor Regis so that we can try and charm people (with our sparkling wit and good looks) in to coming to see the show. We'll let know how that goes.
Jade