The Crowbar Theatre Company: 2008

Saturday, December 13, 2008

A Christmas Carol: Featured on BBC Radio

Crowbar Theatre Company's Mark Pugh was interviewed by BBC Radio Nottingham about Christmas Carol. By popular request, you can hear the audio here. Apologies for the poor quality; we have had to drop the sound quality to reduce the time it takes to load.

A Christmas Carol: Featured on BBC Television News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7768201.stm

Saturday, October 11, 2008

“A Dickens of a feat of memory”

In November 2003, tragedy struck the Duchess Theatre in Long Eaton when an electrical fault burnt down most of the theatre. Since then, the formidable challenge has been to raise enough money to rebuild the theatre for use by local amateur groups. Mark Pugh, a local actor based in Nottingham, and a team from Bottesford, Long Eaton and Melton Mowbray have joined forces to bring Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to the Chatsworth Centre, adjacent to the site of what will be the new Duchess Theatre.

“It doesn’t get much bigger than this”

A Christmas Carol is a one-man piece of theatre faithfully adapted from the original Dickens novella. Star of the show, Mark Pugh, will be bringing to life all twenty-five characters in two very special performances on Friday December 5th and Saturday December 6th 2008. He said: “As acting challenges go, it doesn’t get much bigger than this. I have 160,000 words of dialogue to memorise, and twenty-five different voices and characters to perform. However, I have a fantastic team around me who are making this feat of memory, and acting, a little easier. We’re hoping to help the Phoenix Fund - the Long Eaton Charity set up to raise money to rebuild the theatre.” Tickets are £5.00 or £4.00 concessions and are available from the Chatsworth Centre, West Gate, Long Eaton, NG10 1EF, or by ringing the Christmas Carol ticket hotline on 0788 209 7974.

Notes to editors: Mark Pugh’s career spans stage, screen and radio. Theatre credits include Harvey and Access Rights which he wrote and co-directed. Screen credits include the films The Old 3000 and Abduction and voiceover work for the BBC. On radio, he has presented on 103 The Eye and 96 Trent FM. He had a nationally syndicated radio show which won the Radio Contacts Award.

Media Enquires: If you would like more information about the show, or to schedule an interview with Mark Pugh, please contact Jayne Monie on 07980 387503.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

A little press coverage

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Murder at Allington Village Hall: Update

Regular readers will know that we performed at a Murder Mystery Event at Allington Village Hall on June 7th this year. We are pleased to report that the event made £900, and the profits have gone to buy a new cooker for the hall. Thanks to everyone who came for supporting this very worthy cause.

Sunday, June 08, 2008

Murder at Allington Hall: Post mortem

Crowbar Theatre Company took over the Village Hall in Allington to present an evening of Murder Mystery fun on June 7th. We presented the Murder of mob boss Al Dabone. The usual rogues gallery of suspects were in attendance, and the 100+ crowd had a fantastic evening.

We helped to raise lots of money to replace the broken cooker at the Village Hall, and after our show, the guests danced the evening away the the sounds of The Famous Belgians.

We had several enquiries to run events at the end of the evening, and if you're considering a Murder Event, please don't hesitate to get in touch.