Tina Rath's Blog: A Writer's Diary

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In Nigel Jarrett’s Spectres of Innocence a son and daughter help their grieving father start afresh after the death of their mother. He moves into an old rectory with a troubled history. Unsettling events begin to unravel: who is the woman keeping their father company? And what might be pushing the empty swing on a still summer’s day?

Ever walked into a building and felt the hairs on the back of your neck prick up? Two travellers rent an old apartment but one becomes convinced it harbours something – a grudge, a dislike, perhaps it wants her out? Or is it just the intense heat closing in around her in Mark Blayney’s peculiar tale Straits Eclectic.

Catrin Kean spins a yarn of an old woman who lives alone on the old family farm by the sea. She is visited by a couple who want to buy her home. She agrees…

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The Stanforth sisters, Ruby and Jade (Paulette McMasters and Tina Rath) have the wrong victim (Eden McDougall). And that’s just the beginning of the problem.

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Source: Running in the Family

Source: Alchemy Press Book of Horrors

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Is there such a thing as overage sex?

Close Up is a new multi-media production about censorship in the post-truth era. This hilarious and poignant comedy tells the story of Clive, 1960s Polari comedian, and eighty-year-old Grace, in art Gigi, overnight internet sensation and protagonist of a factual documentary about sex.

In 1968 the Theatre Acts abolished censorship of the theatre paving the way for freedom of speech across all media. Half a century later we are allowed to show and witness the unimaginable. But are we really free to assert our individuality? And if it isn’t government law, what are the systems regulating speech in the post-truth era?

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We are pleased to announce that the first stage of our new work in progress will be presented as part of Litmus Fest at the Pleasance, Islington, 28 and 29 September.

Support the work by offering your feedback on the work at one of the showcases.

Tickets are only £6.50

(or you can see two Litmus Fest shows for £10)

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Venue info

Developed by Emilia Teglia with Zeynep Dagli

Produced by Hannah Tookey

Collaborating cast

Tina Rath

Andrew Goddard

Leila Nashef

Bev Allen, author

Who can’t spell?

Me.

Call yourself a writer and you can’t spell?

Yes, I do, despite a very nasty comment by some troll who picked up one of my blunders on a forum with no spell checker. God, how I love a spell checker function.

Why can’t I spell? Because, like so many others I am dyslexic, what was once called “word blind”. It’s been the bane of my life, it stopped me from writing many, many years because I couldn’t get down on paper what was rampaging through my head. When technology and I finally got it together and I was let loose on my first word processor, all the stories and people inside my head could come flooding out.

And, oh my, did they flood.

I wrote three full length novels (very, very full length) in the space of a year. Will they ever see the light of day…

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