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Alan Franks

@AlanFranks

Songwriter, novelist, playwright.

 Richmond, London
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Joined March 2009
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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." @AlanFranks londontheatre1.com/reviews/g…
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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 alanfranks.org for this and #edwardthomas #matthewarnold #johnkeats #poetry #landscape
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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 londontheatre1.com/reviews/t…
Rebecca Collingwood and Conor Glean in While the Sun Shines.

Rebecca Collingwood and Conor Glean in While the Sun Shines.

This production helps to explain why the sun did indeed shine on the young Rattigan while he was making mayhem along with the hay.

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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." londontheatre1.com/reviews/t…

Twelfth Night at The Globe Theatre 2021 | Review

With its climate of chaos and misrule, it’s an apt choice of play for our times. Comedy it may be but, as with much of Shakespeare’s work in this mode, darkness and terror are everywhere.

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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..." londontheatre1.com/reviews/t…
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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..." londontheatre1.com/reviews/b…
Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter | Review

Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter | Review

Since De Roovers is a directorless company, credit must go to all seven cast members, with Robby Cleiren particularly poignant as the luckless Donald...

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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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My dad is a pilot and flying needed medical equipment around the world - I won’t see him until this is all over but I am so proud of him ❤️✈️
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How is everyone today? We ran out of loo roll, tea bags and much more this week. The lovely neighbours helped with the former. For the latter, I sent @AlanFranks off to @sainsburys for the over-70s dawn shop... thetimes.co.uk/article/walki… #CoronaCrisis #COVID19 @thetimes
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Looking forward enormously to Short Shorts Friday this Friday @Pentameters with @anne_aylor @AlanFranks @JanWoolf @Jowonderwoodwar and Roelof Bakker charles-harris.co.uk/events-… #shortstories #shorts #Hampstead #London #Londonislovinit
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👏👏 This year I have mostly been doing readings of fabulous new works by hugely talented people @AlanFranks @benhogan @colinelves woohoo. Looking forward to more this weekend. 👏👏
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Mine is rehearsing soon for a gig in Guildford with @AlanFranks hurrah. Songs old and new, reading from his latest book The Thickness Of The Door and some poetry too.
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Fake News by Osman Baig at Theatre503 | Review by @AlanFranks londontheatre1.com/reviews/f…
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If the polls are unreliable how do you know he's not points ahead? And even if they were it's about what you think not what the media is telling you to think. This is silly. You don't like Corbyn. That's fine. It's a democratic party. Most LP members have shown that they do. I
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OMG we won!!🎉 We are so excited to announce that we are the winner of the #LDNcivicchallenge for the Active Travel category!!!
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🌟🌟🌟🌟Hobson’s Choice at the Jack Studio Theatre | Review by @AlanFranks londontheatre1.com/reviews/h…
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🌟🌟🌟🌟Review: Radiant Vermin by Philip Ridley | Ram Jam Records Review by @AlanFranks londontheatre1.com/reviews/r…
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🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret at the Barbican | Review - Review by @AlanFranks londontheatre1.com/reviews/b…
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Noël Coward’s Private Lives at Lauderdale House | Review by @AlanFranks "To see this energetic production – not so much a revival as a continuation of the play’s life – is to be reminded of the angry young man that Coward was...." londontheatre1.com/reviews/n…
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🌟🌟🌟🌟 Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope Written and performed by Mark Farrelly Review by @AlanFranks @BrocJackTheatre londontheatre1.com/reviews/q…
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