2008-12-04T00:36:56Z Matthew Granaghan Copyright 2008, Matthew Granaghan SPHPBLOG
This year has been a very busy time for me. I’m still working in Castlewood School with Richard & John and I’ve been back in the rehearsal room with the Shysters.

For the first six months of this year I have been involved in Transformers, where I shared my work with Class 3 & Class 4. I was very pleased with my work with them. Richard led Class 2 for a little dance and me and John started the show off with a dance to open the performance. We did the performance in the hall of Castlewood School. We did the morning performance and the afternoon performance.

Working in another school, Birmingham Sladefield School we did a workday and showed it in the hall in the afternoon. Me and Richard did the session. I enjoy working in Castlewood school and I enjoyed being involved in the performance and doing the music too.

I’m now also taking my own notes and writing them down in my diary to keep as a record and to know what I’ve done. I enjoy it so much.

The Shysters Theatre Company has helped my involvement in the work. It’s beautiful and the music we use is very moving and emotional too. When we all work in the rehearsal room we come together as a team, the company of actors.

I’m still going to Jumpin Jaks every weekend on a Saturday night. I stay for at least five hours, till 3am! I dance on the stage and I love all the girls and everyone in Jaks cheering me on, I love that so much.

I am also the police liaison meeting rep at Hillfields. I keep our neighbourhood watch up to date on a monthly basis. I am proud to do that.

I love going to the pictures at the Odeon and the Belgrade Theatre too.

I am doing a long blog as I don’t have time to do monthly updates, as you can see I am very busy, but I have covered the whole of January up to now, so in my next blog I will be reporting on my trip to Weston Super Mare, also Butlins Skegness and I’m seeing Mary Poppins too.

I’m going to have a good summer. I will see you next time…
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I have done loads of work, including Shysters rehearsals of our Xmas show and carrying on the work what I’m doing with Deedmore school in Coventry. I’ve done a lot of work at the school two days a week and working at Shysters three days a week.

I had a very good Christmas and am looking forward to 2008.
I’ve also been going to Jumpin Jaks at the weekends, and to Belgrade Theatre watching panto.

Julie and the rest of the house came to see our Xmas show ‘Bubbles’. They really enjoyed it and said it was brilliant.]]> http://www.dimensions-uk.org/blogmatthew/index.php?entry=entry080114-111114 2008-01-14T00:00:00Z 2008-01-14T00:00:00Z
July

This month I was very busy with a show called 'Tears', our second part of the Shysters Triptych working with the Shyster Shadows. We performed it at the Auditorium Reformed Church.

I also had a part in a Lady Godiva procession from Belgrade Car park to Memorial Park. I had to stand on the float and pose to people. It was a warm sunny day on a Saturday morning.

I also had a good day at Deedmore School on the last day. Weather was really raining, heavy showers. I went to see the class groups I am working on with Richard and Jon.

I'm still having a great time at the Jumping Jacks nightclub where I dance to music and drink VK blue. So a very busy month!

August

August was a good month for me, I went away with my friend Matthew Gosnay's family to Butlins in Skegness. i stayed in a caravan. The weather was nice, we went to centre stage to watch the red costs and bands on the stage perform. I went to the splash pool and had a splash in the crazy waves. it was fun.

I also went to Jumping Jacks there - a bit different to Jumping Jacks in Coventry.

The weather started to change, we had rain, thunder and gales. Matthew's mum and dad said I could go down in October for another break, fingers crossed.

So I'm just enjoying my break from Shysters theatre group. It's going to be a very busy Autumn til Christmas with the Shysters.

So a lot is going on but I keep update with my blog. Well it's autumn and it's bye for now!

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It's that time for heat and sunshine. Summer's here at last, but I am still as busy as ever.

I had a very busy April & May. Months working in schools like Coleburn School. Birmingham did a sharing of our work to the Birmingham Hippodrome theatre. In May, we finished the 2nd project of a three year project with Deedmore school.

We are still working in these schools at the moment. This month is a very busy time - I am rehearsing Tears, our latest show. It is the 2nd story of three performances. The last piece we did was Shards. We carry on into the next story and we don't know what the 3rd story name is going to be yet but we are having a good time. We are working with the Shyster Shadows.]]> http://www.dimensions-uk.org/blogmatthew/index.php?entry=entry070607-092612 2007-06-07T00:00:00Z 2007-06-07T00:00:00Z
It’s going to be a big year, 2007, for me working with the Shysters. The theatre company has been together since 1997 and this year is party year.

We’ll be working with three schools on a school project like Colebourne and Beautiful in Birmingham and in Deedmore school in Coventry. I’ll be working with Richard Hayhow, and Artist Director Katherine in Birmingham and Richard Hayhow, me and Jon doing Deedmore School.

And also we’re working as a company doing a summer show, working title Tears. We’re rehearsing at the moment to put it on in July. I’ll tell you more later on.

Apart from that, I’m busy. In my other time away from work I’m a party animal. Jumpin Jaks is the place to dance and listen to music. I go every Saturday night, I love it in there. I met Martin Fowler from EastEnders in there on 6th Feb. I got his autograph – his real name is Jason Alexander.
]]> http://www.dimensions-uk.org/blogmatthew/index.php?entry=entry070219-152552 2007-02-19T00:00:00Z 2007-02-19T00:00:00Z In my life away from work I'm getting into pop music and I still like classical world jazz and folk. I'm into all sorts of music now. So I'm into going to jumpin jaks nightclub for dancing I go there Saturday evenings to have a boogie I love it. Saturday nights for me is dancing night. ]]> http://www.dimensions-uk.org/blogmatthew/index.php?entry=entry061123-115959 2006-11-23T00:00:00Z 2006-11-23T00:00:00Z
It didn't stop raining down and then it cleared. We also watched Wayne, Jason, Sarah on the elec volt, it was funny. Me, Julie, Lisa were watching I think Terry wasn't on it. I was walking about inside the arcade.

It was a nice day from Coventry but the weather wasn't hot enough and there wasn't and events going on on the beach. Let's hope next year's day trip will be super.]]> http://www.dimensions-uk.org/blogmatthew/index.php?entry=entry061009-124827 2006-10-09T00:00:00Z 2006-10-09T00:00:00Z http://www.dimensions-uk.org/blogmatthew/index.php?entry=entry060912-162428 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
We are putting it on in the Old Cathedral. The Shysters theatre company is one of four theatre companies doing each story for the Mysteries.

We haven’t been doing shards yet but we will later in the year.

In June me and Matthew Gosney worked with a school in Birmingham leading up to a show at the Birmingham Hippodrome, ‘Showtime Showtime’ I think.
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I am 24 years old. I live with my friends Wayne, Sarah and Michael. I have lived here since September 2005.

I do acting at the Belgrade Theatre beside our rehearsals room building. I’m involved in the Shysters Theatre Company. I been doing acting since 2001 but with the Shysters since 2003.

We also worked with Matthew Kelly last year in Don Quiote at the Birmingham Rep theatre. I really enjoyed it.

I also go to schools around the Midlands to work on projects including back in 2003 we did The Monkey King. It went on a year later at the Hippodrome Theatre. We’re also doing loads now, really excellent.
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