Crowbar Theatre in the Leicester Mercury

Here's some recent press coverage in the Leicester Mercury about our bursary success.

Crowbar Theatre's Bursary Success

Press Release

15 creative winners

15 creative businesses from a comedian to a design company have won £2000 each to help them develop their business. The cash comes from Creative LeicesterShire’s second development bursary awards. The winning 15 creative freelancers and small businesses were chosen because of their potential to develop their work and business.

Clare Hudson, Creative Industries Manager, said ‘we were overwhelmed with a total of 73 applications and the quality was very high. There’s a huge amount of creative talent in the subregion and I’m just sorry we couldn’t take more businesses on to the scheme.’

The winners are:

* Rhubarb Media, a web design company from Loughborough www.rhubarbmedia.co.uk
* Steve Gibbs, a musician & producer from Leicester
* Alex Williamson, a jeweller from Kirby Muxloe www.alexwilliamson.com
* Canard Design, product designers based in Kibworth www.canard-design.co.uk
* Stuart Simpson, a digital artist from Wigston www.stuartsimpson.co.uk
* LaurieLorry Theatre Company based in Leicester
* Henrietta Corbett, a fine artist from Ratby
* Crowbar Theatre Company, based in Bottesford
* The Creation Station based in Loughborough www.thecreationstation.co.uk
* Rob Gee, a poet & comedian from Leicester www.robgee.co.uk
* Write Exposure based in Coalville www.writeexposure.co.uk
* Beyond Compere, artist agency from Leicester www.beyondcompere.com
* Ocean Art, art retailers based in Leicester
* Claire Williamson, a glass designer-maker from Loughborough www.clairewilliamsonglass.co.uk
* Safe Media, a film & media training company based in Leicester

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Contact Clare Hudson e: chudson@leics.gov.uk t: 0116 267 0017 m: 07802 277566

Creative LeicesterShire supports creative businesses and freelancers in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. The programme is funded by Leicestershire County Council, Leicester City Council, Rutland County Council, Blaby District Council, Charnwood Borough Council, Harborough District Council, Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council, Melton Borough Council, North West Leicestershire District Council, Oadby & Wigston Borough Council, and Arts Council England.

www.creativeleicestershire.org.uk

Murder at Brooksby Hall - 10th & 11th November 2006

November 10th & 11th saw a hugely successful two nights of moider at Brooksby Hall, Crowbar Theatre-style.

Friday night saw the death of Rebecca Pecker, TV soap star, at the East Midlands soap awards 2006. Saturday saw the untimely demise of gangster Al DaBone. The audience on both nights were absolutely superb, and got really involved.

When you have a large table of prison officers, and a man called Mr. Shirley Postlethwaite, it really is a gift from the Gods of Comedy.

Mark Pugh played DC Dick Bent, ably assisted by the cast of Suspects: Tom Marshall, Emma Thomson, Megan Underwood, Ryan Taggart, Mark Cato, Karen Weston-Riley and Anneeta Sutherland. Running the show smoothly from behind the scenes was Alan Dillon.

Musical performances were provided by Tom Marshall and Anneeta Sutherland. Get in touch with us to book a murder event for your venue.

See you for more murder in 2007!

(top to bottom: Anneta Sutherland is interrogated by a table of guests. / (l-r) Ryan Taggart, Tom Marshall, Anneeta Sutherland, Mark Pugh, Alan Dillon, Emma Thomson, Megan Underwood and Karen Weston-Riley / Mark Pugh is DC Dick Bent.

Here's what some people said about the event:

"An unexpected, but welcome change. Very enjoyable!"

"Fun! Let us know when you're next on."

Murder at Brooksby Hall - November 2006

We're pleased to announce that we'll be appearing again on Friday 10th & Saturday 11th of November 2006 at 'Murder at Brooksby Hall'.

We'll be bringing our own brand of high-quality, comedy-fuelled murder fun to hundreds of dining guests at the hall. If you'd like to join in the fun, why not visit the official Brooksby Hall Web-site to book your place?

Exciting Developments

Hello, and welcome to our web site. Things have been very busy since we set up our company just a few short weeks ago. We've taken over a business which provides professional Murder Mystery Nights in the East Midlands area. We've also been comissioned to perform some children's stories in a very unusual venue - we'll give more detail about that as things develop in the very near future.

In the meantime, if you have any queries, or would like to get in touch with us to discuss a Murder Myster event, please don't hesitate to get in touch using the contact details on the right of your screen.

Mark Pugh

Voted the World's Best Actor (by his mum), Mark Pugh wrote the acclaimed stage play 'Access Rights' which was published in 2005.

His radio work is extensive, and he had his own national show on commercial radio for four years.

Having played the main villain in the feature film The Old 3000, Mark wrote and directed Quarter of a Century which was made with a film crew from ITV1.

Mark's personal page can be found at www.markpugh.com

Alan Dillon

Alan was transported from South East London to Nottingham as part of a Careless In The Community programme. He is a writer, actor, radio presenter and poet, with a degree in Performing Arts. Alan has numerous theatre credits including The Merchant of Venice, Adrian Mole, The Breakfast Club and A Taste of Honey. Alan has appeared at the Leicester Comedy Festival and Abbey Park Festival as a Poetic Saga Lout, and at the Grantham Comedy Festival as Special Agent 009. Alan has also appeared on cable and terrestrial TV. Alan became addicted to wedding cake, after being Best Man fourteen times. Alan can be heard every Sunday between 3pm and 6pm on 103.00FM The Eye.