"Look at the time! Let's get this show on the road!"

Date: 02/08/2011
Author: Sophie

To everyone who has taken a photo, shared a link, sat through a preview, laughed at a joke, written a review, booked us a room, given us money or made us a cup of tea, we couldn't have gotten this far without you. It's all up to us now! So wish us one final GOOD LUCK!

Mechanical Tiger is Edinburgh bound....

"I say we get him in the back...whilst he's asleep"

HERE'S SAM!

2nd September, 1891:

Author: Sam.

Hi, I'm Sam.

I am one of Mechanical Tigers' co-founders and this is some stuff about me.

I'm a writer, a producer, an actor and a lion tamer. Just kidding, I'm not really an actor. Though I do act...

I'm a writer mostly, in that it's what I do most. I co-wrote Killing Bill Gates with Peter and Tom of MT (both topping chaps!). I'm pleased and proud that it's made it to a full run on the Edinburgh Fringe. I've also done some script editing for Orpheos Productions and am Script Reading for the Greenlight Award at London Screenwriters' Festival this year. When I get back from the fringe, I will start writing for the Phantom Zone, the website of children's author, Barry Hutchison.

*Generic self-depricating remark to counter-balance indulgence*

I became fascinated with writing from a young age, always an advocate of fantasy/sci-fi books and films. Geek writer, you see, though I'm pleased to broaden my horizons, with something such as Killing Bill Gates, for instance. It's still very dark, with plenty of fantasy and whimsy, but at the same time it's grounded in reality. The characters are trapped, both in their lives and in the setting. That's something I love about it. And yet one of the reasons it came about was our restricted budget.

I wrote a lot in school but it was shit. I was a lot better in college, and it was at Havant College that I really got into theatre, and co-wrote my first play, which was staged as one of the assignments. It was alright, all things considered, and it was also here that I first started acting. My first role was The Player/Robin of Bagshot in the musical, The Beggars Opera. I don't like it very much, but now I guess I will always remember it.



I'm not actually as old as the date above would suggest. In fact, I will be 21 at the end of our run in Edinburgh. So, I'm steadily getting older.

Always enjoy life to the full. It's later than you think.

Sam

One of those things Ewan Mcgregor would probably do...

Date: 01/08/11

Author : Sophie

Hi, my name is (what?) my name is (Who?) my name is...........God I hate myself for doing that

Date: 01/08/2011 Author: Chris

Summing up ones self is always tricky at its best

Especially when one is trying not to come off as self obsessed

But nerves are just a facet that this one will have to swallow

And so some facts about that one are now about to follow:

One goes by the name Chris Cosentino

One is a comedian

One is currently studying Scriptwriting for Film & Television at Bournemouth

One is about to enter their third, and final, year

One is dangerously close to being forced to enter the real world

1 doesn’t like consistency

One is digressing

One also acts whenever one can viably do so

One also has a similar credo with panel shows

One hosts a radio show with 2 other members of Mechanical Tiger, Lloyd Morgan and Tom Harrison

One is aware that 1+1=2

One was not trying to make a sex joke out of that, it just kind of happened

One co-manages Aristocrats Comedy with another one

One shouldn’t have made “One” a recurring theme in this poem

One is now realising that it makes them sound like Neo

One is now sick of one’s own voice

One is evidently not aware that this is all being typed out and therefore doesn’t use a “literal” voice so to speak

One may be losing the plot a little here

Not really sure how I should end this…

PICTURE MONDAY!

Date: 01/08/2011

Author: Sophie

Happy August everyone! We're all gearing up to depart very early tomorrow morning! (Or very late tonight, whichever way you're looking at it!)

As it's a Monday, here is our latest picture update!

"Once the head is severed..."

'Peacock' Film Screening!

Date: 01/08/11
Author: Peter

Oh look! Mechanical Tiger's short film 'Peacock' is being shown in a cinema on the 8th, as part of a screening event for up and coming film-making talent!

You can find the facebook event for this here

We're off to Edinburgh first thing tomorrow; I'll be leaving from Wokingham at around 5am. Fun....

The f*****g righteous leader.....THE KING!

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