The Bench: A Tale from Paradise Heights Cast. L to R back row: Peter Slater, Bill Bradshaw, Joe O'Byrne. Front row L to R Ross Thompson, Jo Malone, Lisa Moore Pic by Maddie Hughes Photography
10 years...that's how long it's been since one of my Tales from Paradise Heights played a stage. Well in the wake of the fabulous success of The Haunting of Blaine Manor, I decided to dig into the past and bring them back. With the way the nation is right now there has never been a better time.
The really good news is they are now rolling out across the country, all of them. These stories built up quite a following in Greater Manchester so it's just amazing that they are now rolling out across the country to wider and bigger audiences and to town and city main stages. There's a lot more I could say about this but I'll save that for a future blog.
For now I just want to share the current 'State of Play' in terms of tours I have now and that are coming up, below are the tour posters (more dates are being added all the time) and if you search the headings in the menu bar above you'll find out much more about each play. Bear with me as I update the site in terms of casts, new imagery, new trailers etc over the next few weeks.
Check the tours, including The Haunting of Blaine Manor...it's quite a schedule. See you out there!
Joe x
The really good news is they are now rolling out across the country, all of them. These stories built up quite a following in Greater Manchester so it's just amazing that they are now rolling out across the country to wider and bigger audiences and to town and city main stages. There's a lot more I could say about this but I'll save that for a future blog.
For now I just want to share the current 'State of Play' in terms of tours I have now and that are coming up, below are the tour posters (more dates are being added all the time) and if you search the headings in the menu bar above you'll find out much more about each play. Bear with me as I update the site in terms of casts, new imagery, new trailers etc over the next few weeks.
Check the tours, including The Haunting of Blaine Manor...it's quite a schedule. See you out there!
Joe x
STOP PRESS: The multi media stage production of Rank: A Tale from Paradise Heights has just been booked in for a return on Halloween in 2024, handy as the play itself is set in Paradise Heights on Halloween, obviously I will also be building a full tour around this production.
This caused quite a stir when it premiered all those years ago, and I really can't wait for the return of this one, rebuilding it from the ground up and with the technology available today? This is going to be EPIC.
Oh, and a couple more dates have come in as I've been writing this, for Strawberry Jack and I'm Frank Morgan: RewiRED - fabulously busy times, and I still haven't got to London!
This caused quite a stir when it premiered all those years ago, and I really can't wait for the return of this one, rebuilding it from the ground up and with the technology available today? This is going to be EPIC.
Oh, and a couple more dates have come in as I've been writing this, for Strawberry Jack and I'm Frank Morgan: RewiRED - fabulously busy times, and I still haven't got to London!
The British Theatre Guide
Ghost Stories and Gritty Realism from Paradise Heights to Blaine Manor
Ghost Stories and Gritty Realism from Paradise Heights to Blaine Manor
For a short cut to what all this work has been about, check out this podcast from The British Theatre Guide, an interview I had with the wonderful David Chadderton. David, a prolific reviewer for The British Theatre Guide, has followed the series down the years and I really enjoyed this interview, it tells you something about Tales from Paradise Heights and The Haunting of Blaine Manor. A huge thanks to David for this, it's lovely and very much appreciated.
Finally, I've worked very hard over the years building this series of interconnected tales, and there are more to come. The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Finally a huge thanks to all of the audiences, fans, venue management and staff, reviewers, photographers and absolutely incredible casts that have helped put this series where it is, unrivalled today as an ever expanding series of modern urban fairy tales and fables, set on the mean n moody streets of Paradise Heights and all shot through with a flavour of the supernatural.
Tales from Paradise Heights are back to stay, see you out there.
Joe x
Finally a huge thanks to all of the audiences, fans, venue management and staff, reviewers, photographers and absolutely incredible casts that have helped put this series where it is, unrivalled today as an ever expanding series of modern urban fairy tales and fables, set on the mean n moody streets of Paradise Heights and all shot through with a flavour of the supernatural.
Tales from Paradise Heights are back to stay, see you out there.
Joe x
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