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Writer/Adaptations. Interviewer, Literary Festivals. ‘That wonderful word, Freelance.’ (Dame Joan Bakewell)

Joined November 2015
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This is wild - our Thomas Hardy show is coming to Stonehenge! 28 May by the Stone Circle. Huge thanks to Anton Lesser, @WiltsCreative @EnglishHeritage Hambletts, David Le Page and @Orchestra_Swan . More at hambletts.com Photography Kin Ho #Stonehenge #ThomasHardy
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Delighted to bring our George Eliot show to @BelgradeTheatre 16 May. Created by the amazing Judy Reaves, performed by the wonderful @surieofficial Hermione Norris and @Orchestra_Swan
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Mishal Husain - what a loss for all of us. We have very happy memories of the lovely interview she did with Anton Lesser for BBC R4 Today, ahead of our Laurie Lee show - Mishal sparked a run on tickets! #Hambletts @Orchestra_Swan
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Virtuoso - Performing alongside Harriet Walter @stmaryguildhall, Eurovision star SuRie not only sings, but plays several of Eliot's characters, along with Charles Dickens, Henry James... and Vincent van Gogh. What a 🌟! @surieofficial @Orchestra_Swan @BelgradeTheatre @BBCCWR
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Laurie Lee contemplating life before sold-out run of Red Sky at Sunrise: Laurie Lee in Words and Music with Anton Lesser, Charlie Hamblett and @Orchestra_Swan at Wilton’s. What a truly magical place @WiltonMusicHall is. @SecretLDN
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So grateful to @cerysmatthews @BBC6Music and Sean Rafferty @BBCInTune for championing Laurie Lee. Their support makes a huge difference. Red Sky: Laurie Lee in Words & Music with Anton Lesser & @Orchestra_Swan is @grandoperayork 26 May. Full UK dates: orchestraoftheswan.org
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Thank you, Dorothea/@abigailthaw! First stop @grandoperayork 26 May
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Treat for all Laurie Lee fans - @cerysmatthews will be talking about Red Sky at Sunrise - Laurie Lee in Words and Music @RichmondTheatre on her Sunday morning show this week! Cerys wrote the foreword for the Centenary Edition of #CiderwithRosie @BBC6Music
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Thank you, @cerysmatthews and for all your fantastic support for the Arts
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Delighted to bring #LaurieLee to beautiful @RichmondTheatre alongside these greats appearing there over the next few weeks: @almurray @hugh_dennis @StephenMangan @RoryStewart Please come and see us all! #InternationalBrigaders #BetweentheCoversLive #GuvIsland #PoliticsOnTheEdge
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Anton Lesser is celebrating Laurie Lee in Words and Music in ‘the most popular city in the UK 2024’ - York! Red Sky at Sunrise is 26 May @grandoperayork with Killing Eve’s Charlie Hamblett and @Orchestra_Swan @VisitYork @YorkLitFest @MakeitYork
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Calling @BarrieRutter, Merlin of Northern arts, and all International Brigaders at heart: Please might you help spread the word for Laurie Lee’s story - from Slad to the Spanish Civil War - with Anton Lesser and @Orchestra_Swan on 26 May @grandoperayork ?
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The twins’ rowans Maggie O’Farrell planted at Holy Trinity, Stratford upon Avon looking very fine on #Shakespeare’s Birthday Weekend. ‘ An apple cleft in twain is not more twin’. @Will_Sutcliffe8 @StratLitFest #Hamnet
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Yorkshire does things BIG- two national treasures coming to @grandoperayork Anton Lesser as Laurie Lee May 26 and Mary Beard’s Emperor of Rome 13 July @wmarybeard @YorkshireTea @Yorkshire_Life @YorkPress @theyorkmix @yorkshirepost @BarrieRutter @yorkgin @Charleshutchpr1
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‘Well, carry on…’ Anton Lesser all set for next stage of his UK tour of ‘Red Sky at Sunrise - Laurie Lee in Words and Music” with Charlie Hamblett and @Orchestra_Swan at @RichmondTheatre 19 May @grandooerayork 26 May #Endeavour #ATG #Hambletts
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‘No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.’ GP Gavin Shields backing the great Aneurin Bevan ahead of #Nye at @NationalTheatre @TheBMA @michaelsheen
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Astonishing theatre from Stratford upon Avon @domcavendish @tamaracharvey @DanielGwynEvans @StruanLeslie @Edwards_Boys
In case you needed another reason to book your tickets, then here it is... the trailer to our production of The Maid's Metamorphosis is now ready to give you a flavour of what you can look forward to! drive.google.com/file/d/19oT… Book tickets at ticketsource.co.uk/kes
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Anton Lesser, @CharlieHamblett and @Orchestra_Swan all set to light up @OxfordPlayhouse on Saturday with Red Sky at Sunrise - Laurie Lee in Words and Music
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Edwards’s Boys productions are always an event. School-age actors transform age-old plays: bold, funny, always surprising. Catch them from 13 March at @KES_Stratford @MickJagger Centre, Dartford, @CityofLdnSchool @magdalenoxford @playboxtheatre. Info: ticketsource.co.uk/kes
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Anton Lesser is taking Laurie Lee on tour! Following sell-out @RSC, Red Sky at Sunrise - Laurie Lee in Words & Music opens @MalvernTheatres Feb 10 @OxfordPlayhouse Feb 17 then London York Salisbury and more. Info: orchestraoftheswan.org @All_Allam @abigailthaw @WhatsOnStage
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