What’s on? Waiting for Godot is on, that’s what’s on, for 4 nights only on Wednesday 13th August – Saturday 16th August 2025 and I’m not only directing it but also acting in it. Durham Dramatic Society Summer Studio production of Beckett’s classic existentialist play. Two wandering tramps, Vladimir and…

This coming Saturday (19th July 2025), Owen Brecon* (aka David Farn) will be at the first of three free Art Festivals hosted, in Sunderland, by King Ink Spoken Word this summer. If you want to see poets in the wild, head along to Roker Park (by the band stand): where…

By popular demand, the award-winning Steam – about engineers George and Robert Stephenson – is back on the rails with the following performances: Stephenson Steam Museum, North Shields Saturday 7th June at 12am & 2pm.Tickets £13 include a heritage train ride! See their website. Hetton Community HallMonday 9th June at…

A comedy-drama about George and Robert Stephenson. Thursday 6 March 7.30pm at the Royalty Theatre Sunderland. Tickets £8. 1825 saw the opening of the Stockton & Darlington railway – the first public line to be entirely operated by steam. The driving purpose of the line was to make economically possible…

‘Owen Brecon: Wales’s greatest nature poet, 1984!’ Appearing at Elemore Family Music Festival, this Saturday afternoon, 24th August, alongside King Ink regulars Helen Wilko & Kevin Robson.