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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Perfect Skin
This is my response to the Sweet Summer Challenge From Oneg and James. Challenge #1 Sweet Summer Song: Pick a song that represents summer for you. Use the song as the title of your piece, and to inspire either a poem or a short story/micro fiction about summer. Feel free to use some of the song's lyrics in your piece as well. So what does summer feel like for you? Click here
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Poets
Sinead O'Connor. Top Story - July 2023.
A few years ago, an ex-boyfriend sent me the link to Sinead O’Connor’s song – Mandinka. He wanted me to know that it reminded him of me, how I was when he knew me. We were a couple in the late 1980s. I was a first year University Drama student. I was in the midst of grappling with who I was, my Catholic faith, and how to project myself onto the world.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Beat
Merle Oberon (1911 – 1979)
The day dreams have started again. I’m an imaginary 1940’s screen writer and I’m out of ideas. I’ve paced up and down my office lighting cigarettes. I reach towards a book shelf and because I think in film tropes I have to blow the dust off the cover of my hard back edition of Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights.”
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
Anna May Wong (1905 – 1961). Top Story - July 2023.
I knew Anna May Wong first as a photograph. A face framed by her hair and beautifully-manicured, elegant hands. What does it mean to be an image before all else? If I only knew her as a picture, could I understand the stories she could tell?
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Geeks
Untitled: F**k Miss Saigon Play
World Premier at Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester Dates: 24 June – 22 July Writer: Kimber Lee A series of recent coincidences have brought to my attention a story that is new to me, but I now know, not new to women who have to straggle Western and Eastern cultures.
By Rachel Robbins3 years ago in Geeks
Edith Head – Magic and Camouflage
“What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he’s become a different person.”
By Rachel Robbins3 years ago in Geeks
The Paradox of the Production Code
My daydream is that I am a quick witted screenwriter in a 1940s Hollywood office with a clattering typewriter. I’m firing off one-liners, looking business like in my small hat, pencil skirt and fitted jacket. I smoke and drink whisky to be one of the boys.
By Rachel Robbins3 years ago in Geeks
