God’s Own Country
Obviously I’m talking about Yorkshire, more specifically the Yorkshire Dales. I’ve just walked the Dales Way from Ilkley to Bowness,...
Brides and prejudice
I sat in on a rehearsal of my new play, Stabat Mater, on Sunday. The title has its fans and...
Colour Beginnings – a moving combination
One of the most moving and original jazz gigs I can recall last night at the Watermill Jazz Club. Tim...
Scapegoats and reality
It’s difficult to feel too much sympathy for Stephen Hester and Fred Goodwin but I have to admit to some....
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again
I spent much of December in wonderful colonial style villa on St Lucia’s Cap Estate. Called Manderley because the first...
We’re not the 99%, we’re the top 10%
I was struck by the focus on relative wealth which seems to be all pervasive. Rich lists, executive pay, bankers...
An alien in New York
Okay, it’s a hackneyed phrase but that’s what I am. A visitor, after a break of perhaps 4 years, to...
Black Friday – no time for the blues
It’s Black Friday in New York, traditionally the day on which the retailers go into the black and the trading...
Lessons in song
We went to a Ball on Friday, a fund raiser, and listening to my friend Scholastica speak, I was reminded...
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My latest blog - on the Damn Cheek website - celebrates work in partnership over the last few years -
A very special evening | Damn Cheek
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Executive Director Tony Earnshaw muses on the inspiring warmth, enthusiasm and ideas for new community theatre from Damn Cheek's recent audience in Dorking.
Following the success of `The Causeway', plans are afoot for a new Felling show in 2023 and a new version of 'Passion for the Planet' in Dorking. So thats plenty of writing! In the meantime there's a Christmas show to prepare, an engaging mix of poetry and song to get the season started in a runway. More info on www.ticketsource.co.uk/nower-arts/t-pqqrnan - 14th December, Betchworth
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Thoughts on a train I starting roughing this poem out a few weeks ago on a trip to London but with rail disputes and more on the horizon this felt a good time to dust it off and share it Mind the gap ...
Ancient Wisdom for New Times - Tony Earnshaw
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I wrote this blog for the Damn Cheek website and it can be seen there but I wanted to also include it on my own site and so, here it is. The image above is the image for the show, created by designer ...
Buds, Bonnets and Beginnings - Tony Earnshaw
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It’s easy to be downcast at the moment. The news is dire. Death, famine, war and conquest – the four horsemen of old all riding the earth. Nothing new in that, upsetting as it may be, but the suff...