A new pay deal for the West End?

It has been some years since I last worked in the West End, but I still cant help feeling angry that the Sunday opening proposition has reared its ugly head again. My reading online and in the press suggests that there appears to be no mood or appetite to fight against this deal. Are we so easily bought that with the lure of increased cash we will give away important and hard won working practices?

Lets not sleepwalk into this terrible deal for the sake of and "easy" pay rise.

A little test

In an attempt to blog more often, with hopefully slightly more depth and insight than my oh so occasional twitter posts, Im trying to mirror my blog between my site at www.shayley.dircon.co.uk and my markshayle.blogspot.com account. 

Ill either fry my website, or be able to blog from my phone.....here goes

How long since the last Blog entry...??

Oh dear, all a bit embarrassing, my last posting was after "Mirandolina" finished , LAST YEAR!.

Since then Christmas came and went, followed by being out on tour as Company Stage Manager for TEG ltd's "Blonde Bombshells of 1943", a great show, with another great bunch of folks. Those of you reading this on my Facebook profile, will no doubt have seen the photos from some of the more comedy nights out. Another great gig. Highlights for me were the weekly re-lights, something I haven't had a chance to do a lot of over the years, and touring in a 1984 Renault Traffic Camper van (called Reggie!).

No sooner of tour, than Production Manager for Dan Colmans Ltd production of Milkshake! LIve