Ben Mellor

    • Home
    • About
    • News
    • Writing
      • Poetry
      • Plays
      • Stories
      • Musings
    • Performance
      • Spoken Word
      • Theatre
      • Music
      • Archive
    • Education
    • Gigs
    • Shop
    • Contact
  • Jun
    30th
    Everything We Need – Royal Exchange – Manchester – 30/06/12

    Who Everything We Need When Saturday, June 30, 2012 8:00pm – 14+ Where Royal Exchange (map) Cross St Manchester Other InfoGil sits in a motel restaurant worrying about what the receding flood-waters will reveal. Lily records a YouTube rejection to a husband who imposed an Eden that wasn’t her idea of paradise. Pedro awaits a new liver, wondering why our god-like access to technology can’t help him communicate with his daughter. Loosely inspired by classic myth and climate change research, Everything We Need is a collection of humorous, lyrical and moving monologues from seven characters coming to terms with life changes in a changing world. « Back to the calendar

  • Jun
    29th
    Everything We Need – Royal Exchange – Manchester – 29/06/12

    Who Everything We Need When Friday, June 29, 2012 7:30pm – 14+ Where Royal Exchange (map) Cross St Manchester Other InfoGil sits in a motel restaurant worrying about what the receding flood-waters will reveal. Lily records a YouTube rejection to a husband who imposed an Eden that wasn’t her idea of paradise. Pedro awaits a new liver, wondering why our god-like access to technology can’t help him communicate with his daughter. Loosely inspired by classic myth and climate change research, Everything We Need is a collection of humorous, lyrical and moving monologues from seven characters coming to terms with life changes in a changing world. « Back to the calendar

  • Jun
    28th
    Everything We Need – Royal Exchange – Manchester – 28/06/12

    Who Everything We Need When Thursday, June 28, 2012 7:30pm – 14+ Where Royal Exchange (map) Cross St Manchester Other InfoGil sits in a motel restaurant worrying about what the receding flood-waters will reveal. Lily records a YouTube rejection to a husband who imposed an Eden that wasn’t her idea of paradise. Pedro awaits a new liver, wondering why our god-like access to technology can’t help him communicate with his daughter. Loosely inspired by classic myth and climate change research, Everything We Need is a collection of humorous, lyrical and moving monologues from seven characters coming to terms with life changes in a changing world. « Back to the calendar

  • Aug
    8th
    Exciting New Things!

    PC&A A3 poster print

    Apparently it’s bad form on blogs, newsletters etc to apologise for how long it is since you last sent out a missive to your adoring public, as this would imply that you were egotistical enough to assume you had any sort of public at all, let alone a public stupid enough to adore someone who uses words like ‘missive’. So I won’t even mention how long it’s been since my last post, let alone apologise for it, and just get on with writing about what I’ve got coming up. Phrased & Confused This weekend I and my fellow Geddes Loom band mates, Léonie Higgins and Dan Steele, will be performing a new music and spoken word commission at Summer Sundae Weekender in Leicester, brought to you by the lovely people at Phrased & Confused. The piece is themed on protest, and we’ve tried to imagine what Poetry and Music would protest about if they were characters, with what I hope are quite amusing results. I’ll also be performing in a Gil Scott Heron tribute slot and Geddes Loom will be performing a set of our other material on the Rising Stage on the Sunday. If you’re not around in Leicester we’ll be performing the protest piece at Interrogate Festival in Dartington on 23rd Sept, and at Contact, Manchester on 23rd Nov. A Game Of Consequence Over the last couple of months I’ve been busy working with Contact’s Young Actor’s Company on A Game of Consequence – a new piece of [...]

  • Recent Tweets

    • Doin a poem or two during @forgetcape ‘s set @PHMMcr in a bit for #ProtestFest woo! 15 hours ago
    • Nape-neck hair-raised and lumpy-throated after an inspirational afternoon gig with @quietloner and @LongfellaPoet @PHMMcr #ProtestFest 15 hours ago
    • Ok poetry types, I need your help. I’m trying to think of a poem in which someone’s voice was described using a… fb.me/2oBdJCUYx 3 days ago
    • The young man in hebden bridge station cafe scribbling in a scruffy notebook: ‘write drunk, edit sober’. #kin 4 days ago
    • Anyone in Birmingham on Thursday? I’m gonna be doing some stuff at this. One of the hottest spoken word gigs in… fb.me/SGkyug03 7 days ago

    Follow Me on Twitter

    Powered by Twitter Tools

  • Search

  • Site Credits

    Banner design by Sumit Sarkar: www.kriksix.com


    Website by Roshana Rubin-Mayhew
    (based on the Semper Fi Lite theme)

All content © Ben Mellor