The 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe has begun, and our all-female HandleBards troupe are days away from joining the rest of the global theatre community in the Scottish capital. However, the Fringe can be a tough place. There's a lot of stress, a lot of excitement, and little time to yourself. For the last few months, our Girls have
Four years ago I saw The Handlebards perform Romeo and Juliet in Edinburgh. It was a total joy. I thought: these women have to be either extremely adventurous or incredibly mad to be cycling the length of the UK and performing Shakespeare non-stop. Four years later - and halfway through my own HandleBards experience - I can tell
Hello! These words come from the mind of Ross Ford, second term GreenBard boyo. Having finished our 2018 Twelfth Night tour, I was itching to go again for this season, despite having faced some of the most intense physical pain while tackling some of the toughest hills in the country last year (here's looking at you, Dales and Peaks). Now,
God ye good-morrow! Sian the blue bard here! I’m part of this year’s female troupe and we’re currently out on tour with Romeo and Juliet (or Ромео и Јулија in Serbian, as we recently discovered. But more on that later). Right now I’m sitting in a café and flicking through my diary trying to establish exactly how far
Hi! Mark the Blue HandleBard here! As we reach the 800 mile point of our Twelfth Night cycle tour of the UK I thought it would be a good moment to reflect on our journey so far
The Sun's back out, and this time it means business. And so do we: our Boys are rehearsing, the bikes are almost ready, and the open road awaits
We're thrilled to be able to introduce our 2018 all-female troupe! They applied in their hundreds, they auditioned by the dozen, but only four were chosen to revive our 'seriously silly' production of Romeo & Juliet for our 2018 UK tour. Meet your 2018 Girls, see what other acting roles they've had and discover their biggest adventures to date
Unless you’ve been living underneath a rock for the last two years, you’ll have noticed that global politics is, well, how to put this lightly? Global politics is in a bit of a pickle. In some ways we’re in an unprecedented (or is that unpresidented?) era of political unrest. In other ways - t’was ever thus. Shakespeare constantly wrote about
Alas! O me! O woe! UK Shakespeare Week is over (boo!), but World Theatre Day is just around the corner (yay!). To help you bridge the theatrical gap we've put together another instalment of Words, Words, Words, delving into some more of the Bard's delightfully delicious wordery. This week, Nel Crouch, director of our forthcoming production of Romeo &
How much Shakespeare do you think you speak every day? None? Some? maybe you speak in perfect blank verse