Alan Franks

Songwriter, novelist, playwright.

[@LondonTheatre1 🦄 @LondonTheatre1]

Giffords Circus 2023 Tour – ‘Les Enfants du Paradis’ "This is Big Top entertainment like they used to make it in those now-remote heydays of such names as Bertram Mills and Chipperfield. Only better, to tell the truth."
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[Ruth Gledhill @RuthieGledhill]

Had such a good time with @AlanFranks researching and taking pix for the latest in our project #theplaceofthepoem. This time we went to Helpston and Stamford for #JohnClare. See https://t.co/MyBkZ7VKsJ for this and #edwardthomas #matthewarnold #johnkeats #poetry #landscape

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Enjoyed listening to @BBCWomansHour item on #folk @Hamps_Theatre - read my review @LondonTheatre1 really loved this show @NellLeyshon #folkmusic

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Folk by Nell Leyshon at Hampstead Theatre "This music is not everyone’s mug of ale, but in addressing the importance of its place in England’s national culture, Leyshon knows her business..." @AlanFranks @Hamps_Theatre

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Excited to be taking part in this with @MaddyAndTheCB @cadoganhall this evening #Christmas

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Tomorrow night, join renowned folk singer Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band @MaddyAndTheCB when they perform their unique celebratory show 'Carols & Capers', putting their inimitable stamp on a range of familiar and not-so-familiar festive fare: https://t.co/A1XYhlVvmi

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Join us @Pentameters #hampstead #london on Friday for an evening of short stories with @chasharris Jan Woolf and friends. #TGIF

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Terence Rattigan’s While The Sun Shines at The Orange Tree Theatre - "This production helps to explain why the sun did indeed shine on the young Rattigan while he was making mayhem along with the hay." @AlanFranks https://t.co/dlpEUPJ2VT

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Honoured to be narrating the @HillChorSoc #christmas concert on 4 December. Looking forward to it immensely #Christmas2021 #music #carols

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Ruth @RuthieGledhill and my latest trip for our #PlaceofthePoem project: Adlestrop, site of #EdwardThomas’s world-famous poem.

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#poetry #MotivationMonday

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‘The sound of the neighbouring room comes into range.
We hear the noise of nothing, and find it strange.’ https://t.co/vXJo41irtB. My poem ‘Waiting Room’ posted just now on my website to mark #NationalPoetryDay

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#rutting season at #RichmondPark - have used these photos of a young stag roaring to illustrate my latest website upload, Common Ground, my poem about the park #royalparks https://t.co/zeusPUYENg (thank you @RuthieGledhill for the pix)

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Twelfth Night at The Globe Theatre 2021 | Review by @AlanFranks
"Such stuff as dreams are made on, as Shakespeare was to write in a later play." https://t.co/FCz4PFZQth

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The Memory of Water at Hampstead Theatre | Review by @AlanFranks "In this process, director Alice Hamilton draws tremendous performances from her cast of six, with Lucy Black outstanding as Teresa..." https://t.co/spv1eFgTJC

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Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter | Review by @AlanFranks @GDIFestival
"Since De Roovers is a directorless company, credit must go to all seven cast members, and Lieven Slabbinck for the show-stopping pyrotechnics..." https://t.co/s4KKeIYAjh

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I’ve often thought it would be a nice idea to visit the places behind some of our most enduring #poems, and to ask why they have lasted so well. With @RuthieGledhill, today we publish the first essay in #ThePlaceofthePoem https://t.co/orihdTXPMX #poetry #photography #dover

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‘In the room of his honeymoon hotel in Dover, Matthew Arnold beckons his young wife to come to the window and share the view.’

Photos by @RuthieGledhill

Matthew Arnold and 'On Dover Beach' https://t.co/LjuBl5fE10 #Dover #poetry #literature

[Ruth Gledhill @RuthieGledhill]

Who knows where this is? Where I was last Friday working on an exciting new project with @AlanFranks. More coming soon! Am v excited by this #FridayFeeling #FridayMotivation

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The true villain of the piece - the #alcohol finding its way down #GeorgeBest’s throat. Not that Best needs to be Yellow Carded on this. He already has his own number - this is the tragedy. @SpaceArtsCentre @LondonTheatre1 #london #theatre

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Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire,
Doesn’t dwell, and never did, in Devon
But Derbyshire, while the Duke of Gloucester lives
In Kensington and seldom sees the Severn.

Read my poem ‘Distantly’ at https://t.co/qKuPssS2Br Pix by @RuthieGledhill #poetry #London

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I am the London Pigeon
And I know what to do.
I catch the train at Richmond
But then get out at Kew.

Sometimes there’s a cuckoo,
Sometimes there’s a crow,
Sometimes shifty-lookers
Whom I cannot claim to know.

The #London Pigeon https://t.co/P0RZeR2owH #poetry

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Delighted to have my latest poem, ‘Valley of Breath’, published in this week’s @The_Tablet https://t.co/ZeRlJDHkCW