Robin Acland

Robin Acland

I have been twenty-five years with North Cumbria Scriptwriters, always

enjoying their company, engaged by their writing, learning from their

comments.

My full-length play about John Keats in Cumbria was performed by Penrith

Players several years ago and shorter pieces have featured there and at

Theatre by the Lake and on Radio Cumbria, also in a Nottingham festival. I

greatly look forward to the Penrith society putting on my two-act play Exhibit

One: A Yellow Earl at Lowther Castle in summer 2023, home of the over-the-

top showman Lord Lonsdale (he of the Belt) and his near-tragic wife, Grace.

 

Having spent all my working life in education, I have written countless

advisory documents that no-one paid any attention to, so have happily

ground away at revision of the NCS constitution and the drawing up of

competition rules and such like. In retirement I have fallen ready prey to my

wife’s garden: you can find it by looking for Chapelside on www.ngs.org.uk .

Additionally, I have found myself unable to give up literature enquiry and

teaching, now with adults, see www.penrithandnorthlakesu3a.org.uk