We already have dates in Yorkshire and Devon (TBC), and hopefully there will be lots more to follow – watch this space, or my Twitter account, or The Foundry Group (Brian’s production company) for further details. (Tickets will also be available online nearer the time.) Sarah and I are planning to be there for the premiere, but if you can’t join there’s another performance at the same venue the following Sunday (23rd Feb).Īfter that the Pugs will be yipping their way up and down the country. Also, highly-trained thespians though they are, the cast can’t really portray 66 excitable pugs, so the plan is to have the audience play those.īrian is currently busy writing songs and incidental music, and the first production will be on Sunday, 16th Feb 2020 at the Exeter St Hall in Hove, and the wonderful Book Nook children’s bookshop will be helping out with publicity and selling tickets. It’s essentially the same story as the book, although we’ve had to adapt it slightly because we can’t have more than three characters on stage at once (and in some of the small venues the show will play in there wouldn’t be room for them all even if we could). Well, Brian specialises in small, touring productions in which a tiny cast of actors play a huge cast of characters and a few everyday objects provide all the sets, so he was undaunted by the prospect of staging a sled race to the North Pole involving pugs, polar bears, noodle-crazed yetis and a giant, marauding kraken. I can also now EXCLUSIVELY REVEAL that I’ve been working with the playwright and composer Brian Mitchell ( The Ministry of Biscuits, Those Magnificent Men) on a Pugs of the Frozen North STAGE PLAY, which will start touring next year. This Christmas it’s been chosen for the Winter Reading Challenge in UK libraries, which you can read more about here. Pugs of the Frozen North, the book what I wrote with Sarah McIntyre back in 2015, has been one of our most popular titles (indeed, it’s probably outsold anything I’ve written apart from Mortal Engines – go Pugs!). I know the country is currently cursed with floods, plagues, and rail-replacement bus services but if you can make it to Oxford, it would be good to see you!įinally, I’ve had to disable comments on the blog because I was getting too much spam, so if you do want to get in touch, Twitter or Facebook are the best places to find me. Philip Womack is the chair, or referee, or whatever you call it (I’ve forgotten!) but I hope he’ll tell us something about his own novels, like the excellently eerie Darkening Path trilogy or the eagerly awaited Arrow of Apollo. I’ll be talking about Station Zero and the rest of the Railhead trilogy, and Frances will be focusing on her latest, Deeplight, which is a fantastic book and highly recommended for all lovers of fantasy or just good writing. Sarah McIntyre and I will be doing our own event at this year’s Oxford Literary Festival on Saturday 4th April, and later the same day I’ll be in conversation with authors Philip Womack and Frances Hardinge. We hope there will more dates around the country later in the year – more about that nearer the time, too. The cast are brilliant, Brian’s songs are superb, the friendly audiences made very enthusiastic pugs, and the show has been a great success, selling out venues in Sussex, Yorkshire and Devon. The recent half-term holiday saw the first performances of the Pugs of the Frozen North stage show, co-written and directed by Brian Mitchell, and performed by him and Amy Sutton and Joshua Crisp (of the Bard & Troubador theatre troupe). I’m not writing anything at the moment, and the only publication in the forseeable future is the next Reeve & McIntyre Kevin book in late August – more about that nearer the time. So the blog is (hopefully) back in action, but I don’t have much to post on it. If you’re reading this, it’s thanks to Chris, and if you ever run into similar problems with your own site, he’s the man to turn to – he’s been endlessly patient and helpful. Hopefully the problem is sorted by now, thanks to Crediton-based internet security expert Chris Underhill. There are various reasons for that, but the main one is that this website had to be shut down for a time as it was infected with malware.
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