Exeter Street Hall

April 25, 2015May 6, 2015

Brighton Fringe: Captivating plays on your doorstep

We’re thrilled to have the talented bunch from the Something Underground Theatre Company present their plays at the Hall. It’s our first time as a Brighton Fringe venue and we couldn’t be working with a better team. There is a darkly comic thread running through each performance. Don’t miss them. Here’s a snapshot review to get you in the mood:

Je Suis
Unlike any other play – and never the same twice, join Jonathan Brown as he takes you on a wild, theatrical journey of live music and in-the-moment plunges into different worlds. Irreverent and sacred, daft and deep. Fascinating.
To book tickets for Je Suis click here.

Moon Tales
Watch skilled actress Kate Darach morph between characters. Funny, mesmerising, unsettling and moving. Piece together the puzzle of compelling, intertwined stories. Unmissable.
To book tickets for Moon Tales click here.

Pulling Up The Drawbridge
David Stephens excels as George in this darkly comic and poignant play about his view of a changing island. Watch as he rails against the over-use of the word ‘awesome’, weird fruit and antisocial spiders. Brilliant.

To book tickets for Pulling Up The Drawbridge click here.

April 18, 2015May 4, 2015

How to Get Published at the Hall

This month’s Writers in the Hall event was ‘How to Get Published’. Author Nina de La Mer hosted the evening, discussing top tips with Eleanor Crawforth, editor at Brighton based publishers Myriad Editions, and writers Al Brookes, Erinna Mettler and Gill Hasson. Erinna, Al and Nina are all fiction writers. Gill is a non fiction author – she writes self help and personal development books.
Erinna and Gill explained how they had found a publisher to publish their books, and Al talked about her experience of self publishing. (Al’s novel ‘The Gift of Looking Closely’ was The Guardian’s Self Published Book of the month in August last year)
There was much debate about the merits of having an agent (don’t bother) and lots of encouragement from Erinna, Nina and Eleanor on entering story and writing competitions as a way of getting your work noticed and read.

Top tips for aspiring writers and authors? Stay focused, have sticking power and write for the love of it!