Wednesday 18 September 2013

Update From Footsteps Owner

It has been a packed summer for Footsteps and their clients and as we head into the autumn Footsteps owner, Robert Forshaw, is excited by all that is coming up for the rest of the year. "It has been a fantastic year for Footsteps, yet again, and we have been working very hard at numerous projects throughout the summer. Our "Planters, Paupers & Rebels" Horrible Histories styled performance, commissioned by the North West Peace III Partnership, received rave reviews and we are delighted to be performing it again in Letterkenny & the Guildhall in Derry this Friday as part of Culture Night.  We have been brought in  to provide a number of events for the Faughan Valley Landscape Partnership this month and next. Our corporate entertainment and Murder Mystery nights are proving very popular and over the next couple of months we have public Murder Mystery nights, all with new scripts, at the Malone Lodge Hotel,  Belfast, The Bank Bar & Bistro, Newry, The Warrenpoint Golf Club, Warrenpoint, The Tullylagan Country House Hotel, Cookstown and the Cabaret Supper Club in Belfast. We are delighted that  Newry & Mourne Museum at Bagenal's Castle in Newry has just booked Footsteps to provide training in historical interpretation for their staff, in October. Footsteps will also be performing with Partisan Productions as we continue are work with the Decade of Commemorations, as well as working with Irish Arms as we continue to provide character interpretation for a number of their events.  The largest project that has been on going since February of this year is the production of "Turas" the historical play commissioned by the Twin Traditions Initiative and funded by the International Fund For Ireland.  I was commissioned to write, produce & direct this play and our cast, made up of amateur actors from the Leitrim & Fermanagh area are deep in rehearsals and we open at the end of October. I could not be happier with how things have been developing and we look forward to what the next year brings forth."