Chris Searle was a Tower Hamlets teacher and a writer who became a member of the management committee of Half Moon Theatre in Alie Street and ran the Basement Writers group. One of his plays, Chubb, was later put on at the Half Moon on Mile End Road.
Local teacher and writer, Chris Searle became a member of the management committee of Half Moon Theatre in Alie Street and ran the Basement Writers group. He talks about Half Moon Theatre on Alie Street being a hub for community engagement.
Local teacher and writer, Chris Searle became a member of the management committee of Half Moon Theatre in Alie Street and ran the Basement Writers group. He talks about the first plays he saw at the theatre, including The Mother and St Joan Of The Stockyards.
Local teacher and writer, Chris Searle became a member of the management committee of Half Moon Theatre in Alie Street and ran the Basement Writers group. He talks about Fall In And Follow Me, written by one of the Basement Writers, Billy Colville and how it inspired him to write Chubb. He describes how he was unaware that Chubb had been produced, as he had moved away and left no forwarding address. Interviewed by Toni Tsaera.
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