Rachel Robbins
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Writer-Performer based in the North of England. A joyous, flawed mess.
Please read my stories and enjoy. And if you can, please leave a tip. Money raised will be used towards funding a one-woman story-telling, comedy show.
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The Rachels - 2025. Top Story - December 2025.
Much to my surprise, I have kept a list of the films I‘ve seen this year. I daresay it isn’t complete. There will be films that snuck in on a late night in front of the TV that I would’ve forgotten to note. Or others, that I went to watch at the cinema, but then had a red wine and promptly forgotten about. But it’s not a bad approximation of the films I’ve seen this year. In total, there are 53 films listed, so an average of one a week and one for good luck.
By Rachel Robbins12 days ago in Geeks
Jay Kelly (2025) and Blue Moon (2025). Top Story - December 2025.
As a writer I have been given mountains of advice, solicited and unsolicited. Some of it useful, some to be discarded and some of it contradictory. (Here, I just followed the advice about the "rule of three").
By Rachel Robbinsabout a month ago in Geeks
The Choral
Sitting in a full-house matinee performance of The Choral, it was hard to deny that the age demographics skewed upwards. I felt positively youthful. A friend of mine had tried to entice her teenaged daughter to see it, but she declined with a “It looks boring.” A clear generation divide. Ironic, really – as this is a key theme of the work – how different generations fail to see each other. It opens with a too young teenaged boy tasked with the delivery of telegraphs to war-widowed families.
By Rachel Robbins2 months ago in Geeks
Miss Havisham's Bathroom. Winner in The Forgotten Room Challenge.
Fran had been told she couldn’t really call herself a stand-up if she hadn’t done The Black Lake Pub gig. So, she had signed up and agreed to a car share. Twenty minutes from Manchester and fifty years back in time, in daylight the area might have been called stone-built picturesque. On a February evening, with an empty field to the left and the dark waters to the right, it was Gothic isolation.
By Rachel Robbins2 months ago in Fiction
Plainclothes (2025). Top Story - October 2025.
Plainclothes is my kind of film. I take along my 1940s imaginary screenwriter persona, and she complains about not being able to smoke in cinemas. But I reassure her, reviews have been mostly positive, and it won an award at the Sundance Film Festival. I knew I wanted to see it from the trailer. It is a small budget, independent film, with a small cast, telling a story that could easily be overlooked or dismissed. My kind of film.
By Rachel Robbins2 months ago in Geeks
Dear Susan
Dear Susan Not sleeping again? Is that because of me? Can you see me at the edges of your bed? Dark, hooded, darting in the corner of your vision? I bring with me an atonal cello soundtrack that vibrates your chest. I’m so close you can hear the bow cutting the strings.
By Rachel Robbins3 months ago in Fiction
Torn Between Two Services
I’m calling myself neuro-typical here, because I don’t meet any diagnosis criteria. I certainly don’t experience any of the long-term issues around social anxiety and isolation that my daughter does. But I have been called ‘quirky’ all my life, which is why I may have been slow to pick upon the real problems my daughter experienced during adolescence. I assumed she was just a bit idiosyncratic, plough-your-own-furrow kind of a gal, like her mum. Rather than an introverted, needing a system, not comfortable in social situations person, like her Dad.
By Rachel Robbins3 months ago in Families
