News and opportunities for 26ers including new writing challenges, the chance to contribute to a literary magazine, and Cakespeare. Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb: words in the garden Award-winning east London community garden Abbey Gardens will have a words…
Read moreWhen I was a student at university I tried whenever possible to insert a reference to Bob Dylan into my weekly essay. Not much has changed then. Here I am 40 years later with a title taken…
Read moreOh the terror of appearing on stage! So thought ten Dark Angels when script writer, director, producer and star of the show John Simmons told us he needed a ‘choir’ to help him finish his ‘Forever Young’…
Read moreHe’s a bigger employer than General Motors and can still teach you a lot, says John Simmons Sunday June 3, 2007 The Observer It’s been a big year for Shakespeare plc. It is still a growing enterprise,…
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Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? Well, no. But we did hold a rather splendid gathering…
Read more26 held a special event with Dominic Dromgoole, Patrick Spottiswoode, Peter Kyle, Yolanda Vazquez and John Simmons at the Globe Theatre on 31 August 2006. The main purpose was to galvanise into action at least some of…
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