Our weekly meet-ups have been cancelled since the start of March due to the risks associated with COVID-19. But we’re going to try moving our annual board game convention, BGIcon, online this year. You can find all the details at https://t.co/2kP7HSemw0 Its free to attend.
This is an annoying new feature in iOS. Measures your headphone levels over 7 days and then drops the volume if you’ve been listening at too high a level for too long. This feature can not be turned off. Also, I’m not even listening on headphones, I’m connected lto a BT speaker.
Airing next week as part of the Shakespeare in Dublin series is ‘The Ghosts of Priory Hall’ which is a modern day Dublin based retelling of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ written by my Board Games Ireland Podcast co-host Frank O’Connor.
It airs next Thursday at 3pm on Near FM and will be available online shortly after.
Here’s the promo:
‘The Last Resort’ by Aoife Leonard is the latest audio drama project that I’ve been working on and it broadcasts at 3pm on Near FM on the 18th and 25th of January.
This project is a result of Aoife attending the Audio Drama Workshop I ran in December 2015.
Synopsis:
Aisling and Donal are in their twenties, and both of their summers have gone to pot. Donal was supposed to be on a J1 in Miami – instead he has ended up joining his parents on their wedding anniversary trip, and is forced to spend each night with a pillow clamped around his head to block out the sound of their rampant…goings-on.
Aisling’s parents won big on the horses, and demanded that she accompany them on the family’s first ever Proper Holiday™ to act as resident babysitter. She’s stuck looking after her herd of siblings in an overcrowded caravan with less than desirable toilet facilities.
It’s looking like this could be the worst summer of their lives, until a chance meeting brings Donal and Aisling together and love blossoms! But will they be able to enjoy this new romance without their families getting in the way? The Last Resort is a comedy about going on holiday with your parents when you’re Way. Too. Old
Promo:
Been pretty busy lately. Trying to finish off a few different audio drama projects while also prepping some new ones.
A new one did broadcast this week though.
The first part of a series of dramas based on plays by William Shakespeare.
Henry Hudson wrote this contemporary adaptation of King Lear for us.
Coming soon we’ll have modern adaptations of ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ and ‘Macbeth’.
Board Games Ireland, the little board game meet up group I started back in November 2013 now has just shy of 3000 members.
So me and some of the other organisers decided to try out had at organising our own gaming convention. This will be a full day dedicated purely to just boardgaming, we won’t be going near RPGs, war gaming or LARPing. Just sticking to our strengths.
We normally host the meet ups in a pub. But the convention will take place in the big hall at the Teachers’ Club on Parnell Sq. It’s nice and bright and we’ll have lots of big tables ideal for board gaming.
So if you’re free that weekend please come in and play some games with us.
More details here:
The cast rehearse the script for the ‘Ghosts of Priory Hall’
I’m currently working on a series of Shakespeare plays that have been adapted to relate to contemporary North Dublin. The plays have been selected to fit in with the current Leaving Cert curriculum.
I’ve already recorded ‘Larry’ which was an adaptation of King Lear. Currently we’re rehearsing ‘The Ghosts of Priory Hall’ which is a contemporary version of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and set on a ghost estate. We’ll be recording next week and coming up after that we will be having open readings for the Macbeth adaptation.
