Posts Tagged Chris Niblock
HIGH VOLTAGE REVIEW
Posted by Chris Niblock in art/drama, Uncategorized on May 28, 2025
Mary Shelley’s gothic tale, Frankenstein isn’t exactly a bundle of laughs. Mary, it seems, didn’t do jokes. Fast forward 200 years or so to The Stretton Players Spring production of High Voltage, Chris Niblock’s reimagining of this classic tale and there were jokes aplenty delivered with perfect timing by a superb cast. There was plenty for the audience to feast their eyes on too with great costumes and set, not to mention Frankenstein’s resurrection machine!
Copies of the script are available from amazon price £5.00. Performance licences are also competitively priced. https://www.amazon.co.uk/High…/dp/1916108296/ref=sr_1
Any one interested in mounting a production of High Voltage can obtain a Pdf sample of the script by messaging me on this page or on my facebook author page: https://www.facebook.com/CNibs The play is a comic retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Victor has journeyed to London where he plans to create a bride for his monster. In a cellar bar frequented by medical students, he meets Goth barmaid Greta who introduces him to a pair of unscrupulous grave robbers.
High Voltage
Posted by Chris Niblock in art/drama, Fiction on January 6, 2024
A reimagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein penned by Robin Glover
It’s dangerous to play with electricity or so they say, but that’s how Victor Frankenstein gets his kicks. He doesn’t care if it’s AC or DC as long as it delivers enough of a jolt. And it takes quite a jolt to put some life back into the dead!
It’s high jinks and even higher jolts all the way when Victor journeys to London to create a bride for his monster. No easy task when the groom looks like he stepped out of a Hammer Horror movie! But failure isn’t an option or Victor and his fiancee Elizabeth will find themselves on a mortuary slab. An acute shortage of female cadavers, a pair of incompetent grave-robbers and a series of shocks of the non-electrical kind, keep Victor in a spin right up to the final curtain,
Casting: 4 Women 5 Men (with doubling)
High Voltage is available from amazon.co.uk priced £5.00 https://www.amazon.co.uk/High-Voltage-reimaging-Shelleys-Frankenstein/dp/1916108296/ref=sr_1
Note: Robin Glover is a pen name I use when writing adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays and mashups of gothic classics.
The End…
Posted by Chris Niblock in Fiction, writing fiction/humour on January 6, 2019
Like most writers, completing a novel leaves me with mixed emotions. First comes the relief at being freed from the daily grind of sitting down to write a self-imposed daily quota of words. This is quickly followed by feelings of loss.
For the best part of two years, I have been living with my characters; shaping their lives, determining their fate and now, I have to send them out into the wider world. The feeling is akin to delivering my eldest child to university and then driving home without him, to sit in a house that seems strangely empty.
A little over the top perhaps, you may feel. No doubt your’e thinking I need to get out more, forget the make-believe world I’ve created, and meet some real people. And that is something I do on a daily basis. For believe it or not, not all of my friends are imaginary! In time, these feelings will pass and I will forget all about my reluctant hero, Leo Tate.
Unless, of course, I decide to write a sequel…
My fourth novel, TRUE COLOURS is in the process of being edited. In the meantime the previous three books are available from amazon at the very reasonable price of 99p each (kindle version only).
Featured Painting: ‘Cool Shades’
Posted by Chris Niblock in art on January 16, 2012
My original intention when I started this painting was to produce an abstract piece. After working on it for a while however, I decided that the idea wasn’t going anywhere. The vertical blue and whites stripes were suggestive of the ultra violet emitting flourescent tubes used in sunbeds, so I added the figure of a guy wearing sunglasses. I had employed a colour palette from the cooler end of the spectrum and this provided me with a title for the work.
Cool Shades is currently on show along with Cosmic Collision (previously featured on this blog) until 3rd February at the Ludlow Assembly Rooms gallery, Mill Street, Ludlow SY8 1AZ. Both Paintings are for sale. Cool Shades is priced at £250 and Cosmic Collision at £350. The artworks are painted in oils on good quality, deep profile canvas 60 x 76 cms in size.
Original artworks copyright Chris Niblock
Chris Niblock
A Stirring in the Blood
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A Kyndle in the Mynd 