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Working with Compass Children's Charity in Kettering, Northants, (registered charity number-1073903) and P4TH in Nottingham (www.punk4thehomeless.com) you can help save not only the lives of homeless kids all over the world but in particular help feed, clothe and educate 73 girls in an orphanage in Sierra Leone whose parents were all victims of the Ebola virus of 5 years ago. These girls, without the care and help of schoolteacher Abdul Sessay and his family, would be sentenced to an ignominious end in a battle-scarred country. 100% of royalties from any of these following 15 titles goes directly to those charities.
Working with Compass Children's Charity in Kettering, Northants, (registered charity number-1073903) and P4TH in Nottingham (www.punk4thehomeless.com) you can help save not only the lives of homeless kids all over the world but in particular help feed, clothe and educate 73 girls in an orphanage in Sierra Leone whose parents were all victims of the Ebola virus of 5 years ago. These girls, without the care and help of schoolteacher Abdul Sessay and his family, would be sentenced to an ignominious end in a battle-scarred country. 100% of royalties from any of these following 15 titles goes directly to those charities.
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Welcome to my website. I'm an actor, writer, director, poet and teacher and most of what I've done over the last 40 or so years has come from my own imagination and my own self-belief. My naïve objective? Make the world a better place. It's as simple as that, so please feel free to browse.
Art is a kind of philosophy on life and principles of a variety of different philosophies can be explored, as I've discovered, via different cultural platforms such as theatre plays, poems, novels, acting or audio, music and Shakespeare. Life is a messy, unpredictable business and what is art but a simplistic and often naive attempt to suggest better ways of being and existing. |
In the post-punk period of British youth culture 1980-85 I produced my own writings and found primitive ways (typewriters, stencils, photocopies, screenprints) to publish and distribute them to small audiences and, in a way, myself and my peers of those days dreamed of a day when technology would liberate us from having our output and visions controlled by a small elite. Technology has now answered our prayers and we are able to produce our work professionally for discerning audiences via online publishers or websites or other media. I know there's a certain amount of prejudice thrown at online publishing, we're not 'real writers' they say, but every book I've produced I've poured my life and soul into, lived through in some cases, researched in detail and fact checked in triplicate. Why so stubborn? Because it's all mine, apart from the physical production of the object. No middlemen, no compromise, no appeasement, just a certain level of integrity and purity.
For three years in the late 1980's I trained as an actor at the prestigious Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in London and today can count many 'famous' television, film and theatre faces among my former peers, but I felt almost from the start that I would never be completely satisfied being paid to read other peoples lines, or promote other peoples products, no matter how much I was paid and no matter what glory I was offered and you can only follow your own instinct because if you don't you end up making yourself ill trying to please other people.
For three years in the late 1980's I trained as an actor at the prestigious Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in London and today can count many 'famous' television, film and theatre faces among my former peers, but I felt almost from the start that I would never be completely satisfied being paid to read other peoples lines, or promote other peoples products, no matter how much I was paid and no matter what glory I was offered and you can only follow your own instinct because if you don't you end up making yourself ill trying to please other people.
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