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Pea Green Boat was a show I wrote and performed about the life of Edward Lear, his poem The Owl and the Pussycat, and my own personal paranoia induced by various professional disappointments and the failure of my plumbing system. It ran for a week at the end of 2001 at the Battersea Arts Centre as a workshop performance, for a week in its finished form at The Traverse in Edinburgh in the summer of 2002, and for three weekends in Jan/Feb 2003 again at the Battersea Arts Centre.

Jane Watkins provided live cello and the role of Edward Lear was played by both Simon Munnery and John Dowie.

The Edinburgh run of the show made £200, and the London run made £150. Pea Green Boat is not a financially viable live idea and would be impossible to tour but I hope to revive the text in another format some time, or do it as an absurd vanity project on the moon if I ever become extremely wealthy. Many thanks to everyone who came.

In June 2004 a heavilly cut down version of the piece was produced, brilliantly, by Liz Webb for Radio 4.
A new version is now available to buy via Go Faster Stripe.

Independent on Sunday article (16 December 2001)
Original flier from BAC performances (Dec 2001)
Preview: Arthur Smith, The Guardian (25 July 2002)
Flier - Edinburgh 2002 - Front
Flier - Edinburgh 2002 - Back
The List (15 August 2002)
The Guardian (23 August 2002)
Edinburgh Evening News (22 August 2002)
Metro (19 August 2002)
Divento.com (August 2002)
Edinburgh Guide.com (20 August 2002)
Scotsman Festival (21 August 2002)
The Scotsman (22 August 2002)
Evening Standard (4 Feb 2003)
The Observer (9 Feb 2003)
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