Category Archives: Winston On the Run

The first time John Walton and I met was at his old flat in Covent Garden. He auditioned me for one his first productions as a director, an adaptation of Mishima’s Yoroboshi. I didn’t get the part, but – and actors can take solace from this next bit – he kept me in mind forContinue reading “The Writing Process by Freddie Machin”

It is late November, and three weeks after I hung up my wig and frock coat for the final time I’m back on the road again. The weather is still mild but Christmas is firmly within our sights and I’m on my way to give a presentation about how the tour went. I almost neverContinue reading “Looking back by Freddie Machin”

         Winston Churchill Aged 4 1. Winston celebrated his 21st birthday being shot at by anti-Spanish guerrillas in Cuba.  2. His father Randolph was a superstar of Victorian politics who believed Winston would amount to nothing and become ‘a social wastrel’. He promptly died before he could be proved wrong. 3. WinstonContinue reading “Ten things you probably didn’t know about Winston Churchill”

By Freddie Machin We opened the autumn tour of Winston on the Run at the Chipping Norton Theatre, a stone’s throw from Winston’s birthplace and the seat of the dukedom he never inherited, Blenheim Palace. Merely by dint of dates and programming the show opened to an Oxfordshire audience, many of whom, we discovered duringContinue reading “Winston, the Victorian Missionary”