The World of Leonardo Morgado

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Class Act is a drama centre that offers people the chance to learn about theatre and performance. They are based at the Custard Factory in Birmingham and are currently performing Veronica’s Room by Ira Levin at the Custard Factory theatre.
The tale is an everyday one of psychological torture, sororicide, kidnap and incest. But [...]

The joy of Twitter is that is that snippets of conversation that one has can lead to thinking about a topic that perhaps one wouldn’t necessarily give much thought time to. For example, the antecedence of this particular ramble was the tweet exchanges between Joanna Geary and me. Joanna is a journalist at [...]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any one writing about or mentioning Jane Austen will at some point use the first few words of this sentence. It is for this reason that I have used that particular allusion at the very beginning of this ramble so that I could concentrate on the matter [...]

The dangers of setting foot into another person’s bathroom.  In this particular case my friend Tony Morel’s bathroom.

Strolling on the footpaths of Birmingham’s canals opens one up to the wonders of the city but as it were, seen with one eye shut. This is due to the fact that although one can still see the cityscape it does feel as though one is slightly out of sync with the real world [...]

I have been trying to update my DNS settings for this site all weekend. I know that such things take on average about 24 hours but I have been waiting all weekend and still no change. As I have mentioned on my twitter updates, dream-hosting has had DOS attacks on their servers and [...]

After much looking at a multitude of wp themes I settled on this one by Stephen Reinhardt. I will probably be playing with it a bit and try to mould it into something slightly different but in general I am very pleased with it.
UPDATE: Due to various technical problems with my hosting company, I [...]

The RSC have launched a campaign to get Shakespeare to be more of an active part of children’s development.  The main thrust of the campaign is simple.

Do it on your feet.
See it live.
Start it earlier.

More information can be found here.