Our Dogs, walking them, playing with them, talking to them and reading, we love to read, newspapers, books, magazines, leaflets, cereal boxes...
Ok, we know, sounds boring but we're penniless writers clawing at life from beneath a pile of bills, scripts and rejection letters.
Music
Indie, R&B, Foo Fighters, Chilli Peppers, Kanya West etc.
We listen to most things, except heavy Jazz Its annoying oh and we can't stand country and western with exception to Dolly of course where would we be without nine to five...
Movies
Secrets and Lies, Wind in the Willows, Crash, British films - Mike Leigh, Stephen Poliakoff.
Television
Peep Show, Only Fools And Horses, Vicar of Dibley, Bottom, French and Saunders, The Street, Miss Joclyn, Three None Blondes, I am not an Animal, Nighty Night, Mighty Boosh, Dr Who, Muppets, Paddington Bear.
Matt Lucas and David Walliams, Lenny Henry, Julie Walters, Russel Brand, Noel Fielding, Dawn French, Jessica Stevenson...
Books
Haniff Kureishi, Salmon Rushdie, Doris Lessing, Stephen Fry, Simone Debeauvoir, John Paul Sartre, Sue Townsend, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maya Angelou, George Orwell, Alice Walker, D.H.Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Alan Bennett.
I’m Stevie 1/2 of the Amuzu duo I’m 33 and my main passion has always been writing, although I have only just started to do something with it.
In my spare time I write short fiction stories and poetry which i regularly submit to magazines or publish on the net.
I have written, directed and performed various short pieces for Fringe theatre and am in the later stages of completing my first 3 act play.
We have much in the pipeline including the filming of a ’Mock-umentary’ based around a selection of our characters.
The final edit of a comedy drama which we hope will be snapped up,
plus a few performances a the Cockpit, so watch this space...
Filmed at the Cockpit Theatre.
The Birthday Party’ written and performed by Sophie Amuzu, half of AmuzUproductions. In this dark comedy, Joy Winterbourne will carry on despite the repetition, the loneliness, serving only to maintain her precise paranoia. Joy is under no illusion of ever conquering her condition but today, today she cannot, she must not, she will not, be late.
