Cartoonists exhibition staged at the Bedford Fringe Festival
James Mellor writes: This summer the Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation was invited to exhibit work at BedFringe – the 2024 Bedford Fringe Festival. Poster illustration © Clive Goddard The festival is a ten-day showcase of over 150 acts across three venues comprising of theatre, comedy, film, dance, music, children’s theatre, poetry and, as of this year, […]
‘Compositor E’ exhibition at Omnibus theatre
Jeremy Banx writes: “Fuck off, you loggerheaded fool-born gudgeon!” Just one of the more acerbic lines from ‘Compositor E’; a new play written by Charles Dupré; set just seven years after Shakespeare’s death, at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham Common. It certainly had me chuckling during the course of a thought-provoking evening at the theatre. Dupré […]
Cartoonists Go To The Theatre exhibition
Poster by © Clive Goddard The Surreal McCoy writes: Monday 14 August sees the opening of our CARTOONISTS GO TO THE THEATRE exhibition at Charing Cross Library, 4-6 Charing Cross road, London WC2H 0HF with the final curtain on Saturday 26th. Times below. Mon 14 1-4PM Tues 15 1-6PM Weds 16 12-2PM & 5-7PM Thurs […]
When cartoons take to the stage
The Guardian Theatre Blog has a piece on putting cartoons and animation on the stage, as seen in a new production of The Cat in the Hat, and in the Daily Telegraph’s Alex, left. Read it here: Drawing power: when cartoons and theatre meet