day one.seven

i've just witnessed one of the most extraordinary feats of storytelling that I have ever seen. Opening night finished with the first performance of SharpWire's Johnny's Midnight Goggles in the West Midlands, delivered with stirling assurance by Matthew Sharp to a tiny, tiny audience...
We were enthralled, and it is really not often I get shivers up my spine, let alone from a one-man operatic thriller about a mysterious black camel. Please, if you are reading this, go and see it when it is repeated tomorrow night. Don't think, just go. The sequel is on Saturday and Sunday night.

day one.three

just clocked Matthew Sharp and Fiona O'Mahoney from SharpWire and had a lovely chat with them during the walk from their performance venue to their accommodation. They'll be here for the next four days doing two performances each of Johnny's Midnight Goggles and Finkelstein's Castle. They join my quiet confidence that audiences for these events will pick up as word of mouth starts to spread...

on the cusp of Finkelstein's Castle

tomorrow night at the Brighton Festival, Finkelstein's Castle, the sequel to SharpWire's Johnny's Midnight Goggles that blew audiences away last year, receives its world premiere. Over a week ago there were only 10 tickets left, and by now I'm pretty certain that both performances have sold out. Both FC and JMG get first time West Midlands performances over the first four days of the Lichfield Festival. An extract from Johnny's Midnight Goggles can be found here. You can get a blow by blow account as SharpWire travel the country from here.