11/04/2015
Bertie Marshall Reading TONIGHT!!
Join us tonight at 7pm!
As always, free entry!
Beer/wine - 1.50 euro
Softer drinks – 1 euro
Bertie Marshall, performer and author of plays, poems, fiction and memoir. Born in Greenwich, South London in 1960. In the mid-1970's he was part of the mythic Bromley Contingent, a group of suburban teenagers (including Siouxsie Sioux and Billy Idol) who were among the very first participants in the London Punk scene. Wrote and starred in his first professional play ‘CALL GRANDAD’ a soap opera memoir which premièred at The Old Red Lion theatre in 1987. Marshall's second play THE MAGIC BOX, directed by Robert Chevara, was staged at the Battersea Arts Centre, Consisting of a transvestite magician on stage with her assistant's head in a box. Time out described it as, 'Orton with tinsel, Lynch with lamé.' In 1996, Marshall was awarded a writer’s bursary by Southeast Arts Council to complete his first novel PSYCHOBOYS. It was published 1997 by Codex books, UK and became a cult hit. Legendary writer Kathy Acker praised
Marshall's writing as 'The nastiest of the punk boys … the one who knows who dead pirates are.' From 1997-2002, Marshall relocated to NYC and wrote articles for Time Out, Zingmagazine and Honcho. Gave many spoken word performances and was hired by NY University to give a series of lectures on 'Punk. 2002 – 2011: Marshall moved back to London and wrote his memoir BERLIN BROMLEY about his life and loves during the emerging punk movement of late 70s London. The book was published in 2006 garnering critical acclaim, featured on both The Independent and The Observer's ‘Books of Year’ lists. The German translation of Berlin Bromley was published in 2007. In 2010, he received an award for playwriting from the Peggy Ramsey Foundation.
2012. Devised with International theatre director, Robert Chevara ‘Winter Whites’ a performance piece, premiered in Berlin at Atelier Sudstern and then at the Wilkinson gallery, London. 2015. NOWHERE SLOW – collected writings (1994-2014) published by The Leda Tape Organization, containing poems, plays, chapbooks, memoirs and novellas, including facsimile of 1997 debut novel -PSYCHOBOYS.
