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		<title>Insignificant Theatre &#8211; &#8216;Speakeasy&#8217; Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 08:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insignificant Theatre will be performing a short monologue that I have written, entitled &#39;Foie Gras to the Sound of Trumpets&#39;, at their Speakeasy Event between Wednesday 23rd and Friday 25th May.&#160;]]></description>
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		<title>The Pied Piper</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Turing (mathematical genius, breaker of the Enigma code and father of the modern computer) loved the fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and it has been suggested that the poisoned apple that ended his life was a reference to the one eaten by Snow White, putting her to sleep until, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living the i-life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I sat, pulsating with irritation, watching a little multicoloured ball swirl around on a screen as my computer struggled to perform the simplest of tasks. Life is too short to sit here waiting for a mindless piece of machinery to open and close some programmes, I thought. It turned out that the poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wheel of X-Factor Fortune</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is appropriate that Orff&#39;s&#160;O Fortuna from Carmina Burana&#160;should be used as an X-Factor theme tune.&#160; O Fortune, variable as the moon always dost thou wax and wane. Detestable life, first dost thou mistreat us, and then, whimsically, thou heedest our desire. As the sun melts the ice, so dost thou dissolve both poverty and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Retreat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I have been staying at&#160;Pluscarden Abbey, near Elgin in the Scottish Highlands. It was my first retreat and the first time that I had been so far north since childhood, when we boarded the sleeper train to Inverness for a family holiday. Clutching my precious train tickets and my Railcard, my journey up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapid Write Response &#8211; November 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday 21st November, a short play of mine will be performed at&#160;Theatre503&#160;on Battersea Park Road. Along with&#160;seven other writers, the work will be a response to the current production&#160;The Swallowing Dark, by Lizzie Nunnery. The director is Oliver Rose, of Rogue&#39;s Gallery.]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Lower Than The Angels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The return of Rev. to BBC2 is very timely, after Occupy London&#160;appropriated the steps of St. Paul&#39;s. Both situations illuminate the uncomfortably straddling position that the Church occupies; being in the world without being of it; raising their eyes heavenward whilst keeping both feet on the ground and striving to meet the needs of both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guy Fawkes &#8211; the next Che Guevara?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#39;Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.&#39; For over 400 years we have annually burnt Guy Fawkes&#160;in effigy on the anniversary of his failed plot to blow up The Palace of Westminster. He has his own legendary place in history, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The (Insert Name Here) Theatre</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who deserves to have a Theatre named after them: the successful, or the daring?&#160;John Gielgud, Ivor Novello, Noel Coward, Stephen Sondheim, Laurence Olivier, David Garrick&#160;and Harold Pinter&#160;have all had the honour.&#160;Is there a case for including Terence Rattigan among their number? It&#39;s over thirty years since his death and audiences still respond to his well-made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Titanic Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s been an interesting summer. Bin Laden was killed. The SNP gained a majority.&#160;Ratko Mladic was arrested.&#160;The Lib Dems took a hammering.&#160;South Sudan was created.&#160;The Queen&#160;visited the Irish Republic.&#160;Famine was declared in Somalia.&#160;News of the World ceased publication and Rupert Murdoch faced the music.&#160;Norway suffered terrorist attacks.&#160;St. Paul&#39;s celebrated 300 years.&#160;The Arab Spring continued in [...]]]></description>
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