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HM ON FMRobert Cohen is pleased and proud to report that he's been commissioned to write and present a radio doc about Harvey Matusow for the BBC.
In collaboration with the independent radio production company 2 Degrees West, he'll be making an episode of the Radio 4 documentary strand Archive on 4. The Rise and Fall of McCarthy's Supergrass (as it's workingly titled) will feature archive audio of Matusow and his acquaintances, as well as interviews with people who knew him in the years following his four-year period of McCarthyite misadventure. The programme is scheduled for broadcast early in 2026. |
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RETURN TO THE MIDWEST
Three and a half years after its previous stage outing, and fourteen years after its first, The Trials of Harvey Matusow made its American stage debut in February 2024. As part of the British Invasion festival, the show played three performances at the Just Off Broadway Theatre in Kansas City. Staged by Central Standard Theatre, the festival also featured solo performances by Jenny Rowe (Tiptree – No-one Else's Damn Secret But My Own), Ross Gurney-Randall (An Audience With Henry VIII), and Paul Levy (The Debrief).
(Pic: Bob Paisley, CST)
(Pic: Bob Paisley, CST)
FAITH REWARDED
Keeping the Faith, the lockdown web series that marks the return of super-keen traffic warden Kevin “Quint” McBride (as seen in High Vis), has been honoured with an OnComm Award – bestowed by the people who, in normal, theatregoing times, are responsible for giving out the Off-West End Awards, or Offies.
Written, shot, edited and posted on Youtube at the height of the Covid lockdown, Keeping the Faith explores the great man’s feelings about being confined to home when, in his view, there’s an absolute pandemic of parking abuse going on out there on the streets. There’s more info here, and you can watch the complete series here.
Written, shot, edited and posted on Youtube at the height of the Covid lockdown, Keeping the Faith explores the great man’s feelings about being confined to home when, in his view, there’s an absolute pandemic of parking abuse going on out there on the streets. There’s more info here, and you can watch the complete series here.
A PAIR OF QUINTS!
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Kevin “Quint” McBride, traffic warden anti-hero of the Cohenian monodrama High Vis, made his earliest appearances as part of the online comedy project Vlog Roll, and though he’s not been so much of an online presence in recent years, there’s now something of a Quint glut – at least on Youtube, where two interpretations of the great man are now vying for attention.
Shot three years back but only just making its presence known online, Autumn Patrol is a 5-minute short in which the role of Quint is taken up by Ross Gurney-Randall. The film finds Quint in thoughtful mode, reflecting ruefully, as he pounds his daily beat, on the death of summer and the inexorable advance of pay-by-phone parking.
Some may like to compare and contrast with Bohemian Travesty, a short piece of vloggery in which Quint, as played by his creator, holds forth on what he perceives to be the long-term damage wrought by Freddie Mercury’s finest moment...
Shot three years back but only just making its presence known online, Autumn Patrol is a 5-minute short in which the role of Quint is taken up by Ross Gurney-Randall. The film finds Quint in thoughtful mode, reflecting ruefully, as he pounds his daily beat, on the death of summer and the inexorable advance of pay-by-phone parking.
Some may like to compare and contrast with Bohemian Travesty, a short piece of vloggery in which Quint, as played by his creator, holds forth on what he perceives to be the long-term damage wrought by Freddie Mercury’s finest moment...
Robert Cohen can be Twittered at both @cohenbobbycoco and @HighVisTheShow
