Events
Here below, a schedule of my upcoming events… and further below, those past…
Do keep checking this page for updates on the talks I’ll be giving, there’ll be more added soon… alternatively subscribe to my RSS feed and let your browser do the checking for you…
If you’re interested in a Shakespeare talk, then please contact me
There are two reviews (by Libby Walkup and EssentialWriters.com) of the Bath Literature Festival 2009 talk I gave to be found at the bottom of the Reviews page…
2011
March
2nd — Workshop, Christelijk Lyceum, Zeist, Holland
24-31st – Passion in Practice workshop, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
May
14th — Shakespeare on Toast, Society of Authors, Spring Seminar
16th-20th — Passion in Practice Shakespeare acting workshop, London
Recent Talks
2011
January
15th — Workshop, Geneva Writer’s Group, Geneva
16th — Workshop, Geneva English Dramatic Society, Geneva
February
2nd, 6.30pm — Shakespeare’s Sonnets, with Don Paterson, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen, British Library
4th, 7pm — Opening Talk, Bishop’s Stortford Literature Festival
9th — Literary Supper, Warwick School
25th, 1pm — Shakespeare, Language and the Elizabethan Mind, British Library
26th, 10am — Romeo & Juliet Investigate Day, Bolton Octagon Theatre / University of Bolton
2010
January
11th-15th — Kolkata
18th-22nd — Pune
February
5th — Queen’s School, Chester
17th — Shakespeare’s Globe, specially commissioned by the Fellows of the RSA
23rd — Millfield School, Somerset
28th, 6.15pm – - Bath Literature Festival
March
1st — Hayesfield Girls School Bath, Sixth Form
11th — Drama Centre London
15th – - Oundle Festival of Literature
25th — Bloomsbury Oxfam, with Owen Sheers & Anne-Marie Fyfe
April
12th, 8pm — To Hell With The Lighthouse, Peter Parker’s Rock’n'Roll Club, 4 Denmark Street, London, with David Whitehouse, Joe Stretch & Dockers MC
15th — After dinner speech, Annual conference British Psychological Society, Stratford-upon-Avon
16th — Literary lunch, Stamford Shakespeare Company
May
18th — Gdansk, Poland (home of the New Globe)
19th — Warsaw, Poland
20th — Cracow, Poland
June
8th — Uppingham School
June
17th — Guildford Book Festival, Electric Theatre
22nd — JFS School, Harrow
24th — JFS School, Harrow
28th — Oundle School
July
5th, 6.30pm – Primrose Hill Library (Free Entrance)
August
12th — Closing Talk, Swanwick Writer’s Summer School
October
10th, 7.30pm — Lichfield Festival
11th, 1.30pm — Cheltenham Literature Festival
13th — Glebelands School, Surrey
14th, 7pm — Wells Literature Festival
2010
November
3rd, 7pm — Warwick Books, Lord Leycesters Hospital
9th — Cokethorpe School, Witney
16th, 12.30pm – Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
27th, 6pm — Book signing, Shakespeare & Co, Paris
28th, 12.15pm — Closing Plenary, TESOL Paris
29th, 4.30pm — Book signing, The Red Wheelbarrow Bookshop, Paris — Ben Crystal at The Red Wheelbarrow Bookshop
2009
March
6th, 1pm – Bath Literature Festival - see Reviews for Libby Walkup and Essentialwriters.com’s write-ups of this talk…
April
2nd, 7pm – Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
4th – Reading Group Convention, Jesus College, Oxford
8th, 1pm – Stratford-upon-Avon Bookshop
May
1st, 6.30pm — Stratford Literary Festival – Panel with Christopher Rush & Jonathan Bates, chaired by Paul Allen
27th — International House, Covent Garden, London
31st, 9am — Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival – It may be early morning, but Toast will be served, and coffee will be provided by Cafedirect!
***Paperback of Toast publishes June 2009***
June
4th, 7pm — Notting Hill Waterstones
10th, 9am — BBC Radio 4, Midweek with Libby Purves
11th, 10amBBC Radio Bristol, Graham Torrington’s show, ahead of the talk at Brendan Books that evening…
11th, 7pm — Brendan Books, Old Brewery Buildings, Bath Place, Taunton, Somerset – Brendan Books was shortlisted for the Independent Bookshop Of The Year…
22nd, 6pm — Shakespeare’s Globe, Nancy Knowles Lecture Theatre, ‘Speaking English in Shakespearean London’ with David Crystal
25th, 7pm — School of Life, Show and Tell with Damian Barr. Also with Laura Lockington and David Nicholls…
July
15th, 7pm — Ways With Words – a festival of words and ideas, Dartington Hall, Devon
25th, 12-2pm — Bookworm tent, Magic Meadow, Camp Bestival, Lulworth Castle, Dorset
October
22nd, — Well’s Festival of Literature, Wells, Somerset
2008
August
SOLD OUT: 15th, 12 noon — Edinburgh International Book Festival
September
15th, 7.45pm — Sedbergh Festival of Books & Drama
October
12th, 4.30pm — The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival at Blenheim Palace
14th, 2pm — Shakespeare Bookshop, Stratford-upon-Avon
18th, 2pm — Chester Literature Festival – Storytelling Tent
18th, 7.30pm — Ucheldre Centre
23rd, 12.30pm — Guildford Book Festival – Electric Theatre
November
11th, 2pm — English College, Tallinn, Estonia
20th — Beyond Words Festival, University College, Hampstead
24th, 7pm — Shakespeare & Co Bookshop, 37 Rue de la Bucherie, Paris
28th — William Poel Festival, National Theatre
29th, 2.30pm — Hay Festival Winter Weekend – click here for an interview I gave at Hay, which was broadcast on BBC Radio Wales
December
4th, 6.30pm — Peak Festival of Books – Countrybookshop, Hassop Station, Nr Bakewell, Derbyshire
10th, 7pm — The English Bookshop, Amsterdam
