Author: Alan Spence
After twenty five years as a Drama specialist in secondary schools I formed my own theatre company Theatre is real life in 2009. Television is wallpaper, Cinema is dreams, but Theatre is real life.
With a passion for working in schools and the wider community to celebrate the lives of everyday people.
Whisper Me a Happy Ever After.
As a Face Front Trustee I remember hearing about the development of this production about domestic violence and thinking “Well that’s gonna be a bundle of laughs…” The set up was accompanied by a very chatty Breakfast Club and a number of questions from pupils. The audience proper were very enthusiastic, ready to engage and Continue reading
How should the theatre industry respond..? June 17th 2015.
On 17th June some 60 theatre professionals, academics and students attended a remarkable conference, that not only asked participants to ask the right questions, but also provide the right answers. Organised before last general election by: Fin Kennedy (Artistic Director of Tamasha, Playwright and co-author and coordinator of In Battalions) Helen Campbell-Pickford, (PhD Researcher and co-author, In Battalions) Continue reading
MNIT…back for January 2016
Theatre is real life is pleased to announce dates for their first London production, My Name is Tom at the Dugdale Centre, Enfield for 13th – 16th January 2016 at 7.45 pm. For information about the play, audition dates and much, much more please see our new website: www.mynameistom.co.uk
The Angry Brigade – James Graham: Wednesday 10th June 2015.
Having bought a script and looked at the opening pages, I wasn’t quite ready for the humour of the opening exchanges and then watching the opening sequence began to wonder if the “best political writer of his generation” hadn’t wandered into the The Cambridge footlights. I found it difficult to believe Harry Melling as The Continue reading