Pleased as punch

The company opened the Still Standing season on Tuesday at Coleg Y Cymoedd, Nantgarw in Cardiff, and the show met and exceeded all of my expectations with a marvellous performance and excellent audience. Opening nights are notoriously edgy and can very often veer off...

And here we go again

With less than a week to go before we open our new touring programme, it’s all systems go here at the FFIN machine as you can well imagine. So why you may well ask is the strap line for the show, Still Standing? As always with me, a number of reasons.  Firstly...

Give a little something back

Hello to all you Ffin followers! I hope you’re all well and looking forward to seeing us perform our triple bill at Coleg Y Cymoedd on the 11th March. Just a few things to check in on this early Saturday morning. As I trek down from the city to the valley to...

Being – a quick catch-up for sharing

So far so good!! Catrin and I have so far spent two wonderful rehearsals with Gary improvising following some ‘rules’ that Gary has set He’s filmed quite a bit of the improvisations and from these we will pick out the bits that are ‘good’...

In search of technical sparkle

Well, what a week it has been. I have so far thoroughly enjoyed being back in the studio with the ffin family working on our new triple bill which premières at the Nantgarw Campus, Coleg y Cymoedd on the 11th March. Over the course of the last week, we have spent time...

Rambling

Well what a week it has been! It’s been so lovely to be back in the studio with the Ffin family. As Effie has mentioned in her blog, we have been rehearsing for our ‘Still Standing’ tour. It looks set to be a cracker! We began the week refreshing...