Sorry if I've been quieter than usual. I've just been through one of my busy spells in my day job. Not going to give you the blow-by-blow account, but that's done now. On top of this, I've spent most of the last two weeks fighting off a monster stomach bug. So if you've tried to contact me in the last month, probably safest to contact me again. But I haven't been completely incapacitated and I got a few things done.
One thing we've starting doing is thinking about how Durham Free Fringe 2025 will work. You can read the details over at the link, but the headline is that we are starting to look for other people to help us out, but this time we are mainly looking for artists taking part with us. For everyone else, we're still encouraging you to volunteer for Durham Fringe instead of us. Not a hard and fast rule though: if, for whatever reason, you specifically want to work with us, let us know and we can probably accommodate.
But the new bit of news is that I've registered for Brighton Fringe 2026.
I am returning with It's Not Cludeo, because of course. One small change with the dates. Last time we did two shows in weekend 1 and one further show in weekend 3. This year, we're bringing the latter show forward to week 2. For some reason, it's always been the final show that's proved difficult to find guests for - almost all the takers were only available for the first weekend, even if they weren't due to perform until the end of the fringe. This is an experiment and who knows what we'll do the year after, but hope to see you there.
Anyway, with me doing shows in consecutive weekends, this means I can also being Doctor Coppelius to Brighton. I'm also doing this at the Rotunda, because their new third tent, Rotunda Pip, is pretty cool as a storytelling space. I had originally intended to do this between INC weekends, but things didn't quite line up and I'm now doing Doctor Coppelius over weekend 2. Which means, yet again, I've got a day where I'm doing both shows. But I got away with that last time so I'll be fine.
Full dates and times:
It's Not Cluedo: Sat 2nd May, 5.00 p.m, Sun 3rd May 2.00 p.m, and Sat 9th May 5.00 p.m. Tickets
Doctor Coppelius: Fri 8th May, 5.30 p.m., Sat 9th May, 2.30 p.m., Sun 10th May, 5.30 p.m. Tickets