Invisible Other at Bodmin

We are taking Invisible Other to Bodmin on the 15th and 16th of October – including a Saturday matinee! They have a pay-what-you can policy and have three suggested prices. Take a look at the website For Friday evening click here For Saturday matinee click here For Saturday evening click here Two weeks ago I went down to Bodmin and … Read More

Early bird tickets end this Friday

Tickets are on sale for Invisible Other at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth and you can snap up half price tickets until this Friday. Click here for the Theatre Royal Box Office

A new show developed through lockdown

My last post was February 2020, wow! around three weeks before the first lockdown. I was what was called a Lab Associate at the Theatre Royal Plymouth and was supposed to be making a new show for Autumn 2020 however, in due course that would be cancelled along with everything else.  During that lockdown I didn’t feel a creative at … Read More

Next Week Coffee with Vera at the Theatre Royal Plymouth

  This week I will be performing my show Coffee with Vera Front of House at the Theatre Royal Plymouth. I never thought I would still be performing this show seven years after first making it but it’s certainly not going away. The Theatre Royal are co-producing Amsterdam with the Actors Touring Company and it’s currently in the Drum theatre. … Read More

First week of a new show

Last week I had the luxury of being in a rehearsal room, by myself, to start developing a new show. Saying ‘by myself’ is a bit of a lie because even though, at this stage it may be a solo show there was a collection of voices in the room with me. I am a 2020 Lab Associate at the … Read More

The Secret Listener in Bodmin

My performance of The Secret Listener will be performed in Bodmin this Saturday October 12th. The Regimental Museum is a perfect venue for a matinee, obviously they have many WW2 artefacts on display, but they also have a spy HQ where you can learn about code breaking and have a go at Morse Code. They are happy for the audience … Read More

Developing The Secret Listener

For the last few months I have been quietly researching my new performance entitled The Secret Listener, a show that looks at the hidden work of voluntary interceptors during WW2 – the VIs would set themselves up in their spare bedrooms, attics or garages/garden sheds and they would listen in on homemade radios that most had been using as amateur … Read More

Vera travels to Cornwall

My first solo show is making a trip to Cornwall, to Bodmin to be precise. Last year I played Millicent Fawcett in Dreadnought South West’s production of The Cause and we opened the tour in Bodmin. The Old Library there has been turned into an arts centre by that south west creative entrepreneur Fin Irwin and his CIC company, intoBodmin … Read More