Matthew Duggan

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Earlier this week we received a review from a couple of online sources, including one from Electronic Intifada, which describes itself as an

‘independent publication committed to comprehensive public education on the question of Palestine, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the economic, political, legal, and human dimensions of Israel’s 40-year occupation of Palestinian territories.’

You can read the full review here. Interesting stuff, bearing in mind the story of the play.

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Over the past few months I’ve been doing a fair bit of work on Resonance FM, both with my own radio show (entitled Smoke & Mirrors) and as a guest on other shows.

Most recently, Upstart Theatre – the company behind ‘Oh Well Never Mind Bye’  – and I put together a radio show all about the play we’re currently doing which runs until 4th July 2009 at The Union Theatre.

The result is the first episode of The Matthew Duggan Podcast, an occasional podcast hosted by me. In this episode, I chat with writer Steven Lally, director Tom Mansfield and assistant director Laura Casey about the themes of the play, the creative process and the genesis of the play and the events of July 2005.

Here you can listen to the first episode and all the episodes will also be featured on iTunes. Just type in ‘Matthew Duggan’ into the iTunes Store and look under podcasts.

Enjoy the show and why not leave a comment below or on iTunes if you enjoy it?

I’m delighted to let you know that well-known theatre critic Michael Billington came to see Oh Well Never Mind Bye at The Union Theatre and gave us a three star review (out of 5 possible stars). Considering how much theatre he sees – and how nice he was about us actors – it seems that he had a very good evening.

You can read the review here

Whatever you may think of London’s free papers, virtually all publicity is good publicity when you’re in fringe theatre.

To that end, our lovely press ladies got us into a number of publications including the London Lite, a free newspaper which runs listings for upcoming shows.

If you’ve seen the play, you can now let Upstart  Theatre know what you think of Oh Well Never Mind Bye by Steven Lally simply by clicking the link below:

Write a review of Oh Well Never Mind Bye

I’ll update the blog shortly about Press Night and the joys of sitting opposite Michael Billington from The Guardian while he reviewed the show we’re were performing.