Previously: my one-act thriller, Innocence, was to be staged at the Rose Theatre in Kidderminster 25-27 September. You’ve already seen the past tense, now read on.<\/p>\n
The whole thing’s been cancelled: both plays in the double bill, the entire thing. I don’t know all the details and some of those I do I’m not really able to tell you here, but it’s gone and I’m inappropriately fine about it. A production is a production, I wanted it on my CV, but I’m sure the organisers will understand my telling you that I wasn’t at all happy about how it was going.<\/p>\n
In the end, neither was the theatre. Innocence and another thriller were being produced by a group that works with the Rose Theatre but isn’t entirely part of it. And I’m told it was the theatre management who pulled the plug.<\/p>\n
I do have one regret. I had to write a bio of myself for the programme and that’ll now never be printed. (The posters were, including the mistake with my name. You have to feel for the organisers: money spent like this. And I don’t know what’s happening with tickets. If you bought any, let me know: I’ll refund you and get the money from them.)<\/p>\n
But it occurs to me that the bio was fun to write and here’s a platform for it. So, I don’t know if it’s possible for a blog to get any more egotistical, but let’s have a good go: here’s my bio from the Theatre Programme That Never Was.<\/p>\n
William<\/p>\n
WILLIAM GALLAGHER is a writer and journalist from the Midlands. He writes the daily TV history column On This Day plus radio and TV reviews and drama features for Radio Times magazine. He\u2019s freelanced for newspapers such as The Independent, the Birmingham Post and The Los Angeles Times and magazines from Doctor Who Adventures to Sewing Today.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s been a journalist and columnist for BBC News and BBC Ceefax, editor for education and computing magazines, interviewed people from Stephen Fry to Maureen Lipman and spent one crazy day having afternoon tea in the mess room on a Russian nuclear submarine. He\u2019d tell you more about that but he\u2019s not honestly sure how it happened and regrets calling the place a dive.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s produced for BBC Radio 4, researched for the BBC World Service and reported for BBC 5 Live, BBC Radio WM and BBC Hereford & Worcester.<\/p>\n
Scriptwriting includes ITV1\u2019s Crossroads, the UK DVD Review podcast and radio adverts. Theatre writing includes Manhattanhenge at the Carriageworks Theatre\u2019s new writing festival in Leeds earlier this year and Time and the Conway Twitty Appreciation Society at the Patrick Centre in the Birmingham Hippodrome in 2007.<\/p>\n
William\u2019s portrait and jewellery photography has been published in magazines and books in the UK and America and he\u2019s filmed \u201cMaking Of\u201d videos for BBC Worldwide. He\u2019s now doing voiceover work for DVD documentaries, developing radio drama projects with BBC Birmingham and independent production companies. His literary agent is currently pitching William\u2019s first novel to publishers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Previously: my one-act thriller, Innocence, was to be staged at the Rose Theatre in Kidderminster 25-27 September. You’ve already seen … Continue reading