Olympic Opening Ceremony script writer to visit Oswestry

This year, 2012, is the big one. Sebastian Coe, for one, thinks so.  It’s Olympic year and as we have seen in Beijing, the Opening Ceremony is probably the biggest stage show in the world seen by millions around the globe.  So just imagine being asked to script it!

Frank Cottrell Boyce has spoken in the Liverpool Echo of his excitement at the project (see below).

Here in Oswestry, we are thrilled to welcome Frank in March where he will be visiting a couple of local schools to inspire children about writing and the imagination.  His latest children’s book being CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG FLIES AGAIN (now available from Booka Bookshop) for which he was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Trust to write the sequel to the well-known classic.

Frank will also be conducting a book signing for children in Oswestry Library in the afternoon.

From the Liverpool Echo…

WRITER Frank Cottrell Boyce has spoken of  his excitement at being chosen to script the  London Olympics opening ceremony.

The Crosby-based author is  working with long-time collaborator, Oscar-winning director  Danny Boyle, on the global event  due to be staged in July next year.

And he admits while he was  “hesitant” at first, he’s loving his  involvement in the world’s  greatest sporting occasion.

He said: “I was very hesitant about doing it  when Danny asked me to and said I don’t know  anything about that. And he said ‘nobody  knows anything about it’ because nobody ever  does it twice, so everybody does it in their own  way.

“We’re starting with a completely clean  sheet in that Beijing was the ultimate of one  kind of opening ceremony, you can’t compete  with it on its own terms, so someone has to rip  it up and start again really which is great.”

While the team, which also includes a set  designer, and costume designer Suttirat Anne  Larlarb who worked with Danny Boyle on his  new film 127 Hours, is keeping tight-lipped  about the ceremony’s content director  Boyle has revealed it will be “on a  human scale”.

[Source: Liverpool Echo]