Here’s some more photos from this week’s shoot of An Admin Worker At The End Of The World. Shot by BrotherBrother. Starring Ashlea Kaye, Mina Anwar, Jemima Rooper and Michael Abubakar.
Drowning in admin
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It’s the end of the world as we know it
I’m currently on set for the filming of my first short film – An Admin Work
er At The End Of The World. Written with Yaz & Haz Al-Shaater of BrotherBrother, this tells the story of Annie who struggles to complete her paperwork and leave her job as the world crumbles around her.
We’re shooting in East London this week and next week. Here’s a photo of a recent clapperboard.
Website here – https://brobro.film/an-admin-worker-at-the-end-of-the-world/
IMDB info here – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8524868/
In Theory
I’m very pleased to confirm that BrotherBrother are going to be producing In Theory – my new short film about driving theory and choose-your-own-adventure fantasy (an obvious combo).
Shooting is scheduled for mid-December and the film should be out in February.
Top Ten
My play BORIS: WORLD KING is in the Guardian Guide today, listed first in the “Top Ten Things To Do This Week” in cultural highlights.
It has just one week left to run at the Pleasance, Edinburgh – book tickets from here!
Mark Lawson in the Guardian
Here’s Mark Lawson in today’s Guardian, discussing my latest show as it returns to Edinburgh in the post-Brexit climate…
“One gamble with history that has spectacularly paid off is the return of one of last year’s hits, David Benson’s portrayal of the cabinet’s only surviving Old Etonian in Tom Crawshaw’s play Boris: World King”
“A daring tonal shift in the script – a furious moral interlude in which the audience is warned that Johnson may not be as harmless as his rumpled buffoonery suggests – has even more force when aimed at the holder of one of the great offices of state.”
It’s on page 22 of the main Guardian – or online here.
Boris sells out
A few days into the Edinburgh Fringe and I can report that Boris: World King is selling-out each day. Very exciting as we moved up to a 175-seat space this year.
Tickets for each performance are usually gone by the late morning of the show, so if you’re planning to see it do book in advance.
Boris Recommended
Boris: World King is recommended as Best of the Fest: 10 Show You Can’t Miss in the Sunday Post today.
It’s also one of the highlights picked by the Daily Mail this weekend. (No online versions of the articles sadly.) They spelt my name “Tom Crenshaw” but, let’s be honest, it’s hardly the worst thing the Daily Mail have ever written…
The society pages
Coverage of my Herculean task at rewriting Boris: World King numerous times as the news kept changing continues today, as the Evening Standard called to interview me for the Diary Section.
Usually given over to posh drinks evenings they’ve been to and celebrity gossip, today’s lead appears to be that I’m rewriting my play about Boris!
They didn’t even ask me how much my house is worth…
See it in today’s Evening Standard if you’re in London. Or online here.
Nonsense Nominated
Nonsense And Sensibility has just been nominated for Best Production and Best New Writing at the 2016 Buxton Fringe.
It sold out its run – and an added performance on the final Saturday. My thanks to Yaz Al-Shaater, La Sykes, Maddie Gould and Bips Mawson for making it happen!
My Scotsman column today
I’ve been asked to guest-write a column for the Scotsman today – discussing the challenges of writing a play about a changeable figure like Boris.
Particularly relevant as he’s become Foreign Secretary literally in the middle of my writing this article about how he keeps surprising us.
It’s the Arts Platform piece on page 21 of today’s Scotsman (in case you can get a copy). Or you can read an online version here.
Boris: World King returns to the Edinburgh Fringe from 3-29 August, 5:40pm at the Pleasance Dome.