Tag Archives: Women

S4Ep22 Mad or Well-Advised? Lindsay Hollingsworth Directs The Comedy of Errors

In recent The Brentwood Buzz podcasts we have found there is a talented pool of community theatre players who circle effortlessly around the various groups with a lead role here, a bit part there and occasionally even some directing thrown in.

One of those players is Lindsay Hollingsworth, writer of pantos for The College Players, in which she also acts and sometimes directs, when she’s not teaching youngsters to play percussion instruments, or encouraging them to join Brentwood’s Orchestras for Young Musicians.

This summer Lindsay is bringing her directing skills to Romford Shakespeare Theatre for its summer show, The Comedy of Errors, which will be performed outside in Hornchurch.

The Brentwood Buzz has been to meet Lindsay to find out why the arts are so important to her.

https://www.romfordshakespearetheatre.co.uk

S4Ep21 Essex Girls – Witches and Stilettos

The dictionary definition of an Essex Girl has been, for some time, a young woman from Essex who is unintelligent, promiscuous and materialistic.

Despite a campaign in recent years to remove this definition, it still sticks, even though you only have to listen to the women who’ve appeared on The Brentwood Buzz in the last three years to find a bunch of intelligent, feisty women who have no qualms about saying what they want, and getting work done.

Now Blatella Films is producing a documentary – Witchcraft & Stilettos: Redefining The Essex Girl Narrative – for upcoming film festivals, and has been in Brentwood for interviews with some of those Essex Girls and women. The Brentwood Buzz was there to speak to director Natalie Scarsbrook.

Thanks to Natalie Scarsbrook at Blatella Films (https://blatella.co.uk/) for the interview and Dr Natasha Radford at the Chicken and Frog Bookshop in Brentwood for the use of the shop for recording.