Colour of Fruit Productions

A few months ago it was announced that South Street Arts Centre is in danger of being closed due to proposed budget cuts by Reading Council. South Street is special to us here at Colour of Fruit, as it has been the venue for both our previous productions here in Readin...

The Fruitcakes have had kind of a whirlwind few years, for one reason or another, and it's easy (for me at least) to forget that we are still a young company, still cutting our teeth on the rusks of theatricality, whatever they may be.  

We have just closed our...

My sister thinks Noah (of the Ark) is following her around. And I don't mean this in the literal sense, my sister's not a crazy person, but rather in the symbolic. 

Often when you become interested in something, that something then seems to appear in your life with gr...

Last week we went to see a show about juggling. And it got me thinking about, well, juggling. 

I can't juggle, I've never been able. I spent about a half hour trying to learn when I was twelve but I wasn't immediately good at it, and back then I really thought that I n...

Deciding to do something is not the same as doing it.

You can spend as much time as you want writing lists of things you're going to do; wonderful, adventurous, rapturous lists of life goals and diet plans and daily tasks, but at the end of the day, the list is proof o...

It's not too late for YOU […] besides which people can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour. […]

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so...