Skittles aka Love & Sweets
Skittles was on Radio 4 at 23:30 from Tuesday 2nd to Friday 5th April, as Richard Marsh: Love and Sweets. It would be very helpful if you’d say something nice about it to the BBC, which you can do here.
Skittles is a story about love (and sweets, which are more reliable). This page is mostly about the run at the Edinburgh fringe in 2011. Ongoing news as and when.
Reviews:
Also twitter reviews from Telegraph and Observer:
Telegraph
Forget the Pinter poetry thing @Pleasance; for verse with heart and verve see Richard Marsh‘s dazzling love-gone-wrong show Skittles
@domcavendish (Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph).
Observer
Ideal blast of lunchtime wit & whimsy in spoken-word show SKITTLES @ Plez Below. Great writing, great performance… free Skittle.
@tomlamont (Tom Lamont, Observer).
A nice review of the December 2011 BAC shows here. (Obviously this is a nice review, I’m telling you about it. What’s more revealing is there appear to be no bad ones*).
* so far this is the only review**.
** Not any more***.
*** Also a review of the York show in June 2012 here.
During the fringe, I wrote some blogs at Whatsonstage. Here is the first.
Frankly, they deteriorate as they go on but if you’re feeling persistent:
If you’ve been to see the show, please get in touch either below, or by emailing 2011skittles@gmail.com. Or follow me on twitter – @richardbmarsh
Hi Rich,
Got to be honest… I don’t normally like poetry (I know that’s a huge generalisation – don’t throw tomatoes at me!) but heard your show last week on Radio 4 and really enjoyed it! I thought the delivery was brilliant with incredibly clever rhymes and “quirks”. It kept me wanting to listen to find out what happened!
Look forward to hearing more hopefully.
Tom
Thanks, Tom. No tomatoes – I think a lot of people feel the same way. I’m chuffed you enjoyed it.
Hopefully there will be more on the radio – we’re waiting to hear on the next thing. I’ll mention it on the site if it goes through.
All the best,
Richard
Same thing happened to me. Absolutely blown away by this talent. Beautiful storytelling with wit, rhyme and action. Has the ability to make you laugh and cry. Would love to see more of his stuff!
I happened to attend after meeting Rich in the cue at Fringe…. went on a whim and was blown away. Skittles is outstanding – delivered with quick wit, crisp pose and utter perfection for nearly one hour. Rich Marsh is brilliant and will go far – ok, I’ve said it here – heck, maybe you already have!
Thanks, David. Glad you liked it. I can’t work out what your email address is – the technology of my own website is beyond me – but if you email me I can keep you in touch with other things I’m doing, if you’d be interested.
I live in the states, so when you get this way let me know, but if you have recorded “Skittles” I sure would be interested in purchasing a copy – really one of the best plays/poetry/programs I’ve seen in a long time.
e-mail is AMOPTBDDWN@aol.com