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Gallivanting
by Toby Simkin
Gallivanting details, mostly with photos supporting, my globe-trotting adventures as a theatrically ambitious gay boy from down under, in pursuit of my dream with highfalutin innovation, pioneering and luck on four continents & oceans between described in an amusing way as I achieve my dreams, and along the way, trip into fun insight behind the scenes of my theatrical world, gay life and reveal the reality of 2 decades within the real China.
Gallivanting
ISBN: 978-1-7779663
ISBN: 978-1-7779663-2-4 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-1-7779663-3-1 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-7779663-0-0 (ebook)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021922574
Dewey Decimal System Call Number: 792.092
This eyeball popping, head spinning, page turner is the remarkable, real life, mega-memoir of The Other Boy from Oz telling the no-holds-barred truth in a fun theatrical way, and I was a witness to nearly all of it.”
—- DJ Wizniak
A really fun read, with an astonishing glimpse behind the scenes of so much.”
—- 黄琼 Ada Qiong
Hilarious for anyone considering a trip to China or a life in the theatre. Highly recommended”
—- David Stonebridge
An inspiring trail of self discovery and commitment to his goals. As a Chinese citizen, his description and analysis of the real China is astonishingly accurate. I’m in awe and want more.”
—- 王怡丰 Ethan Wong
978-1-7779663
Current Chapters:
with hundreds of photos
🇬🇧 GENESIS
🇺🇳 Military is gallivanting in my DNA
🇦🇺 THE LAND DOWN UNDER
🇺🇳 ZEST FOR GALLIVANTING
🇺🇸 THE MAGICAL LAND OF WONDERMENT
🇺🇸 How I became an arctophile
🇺🇸 Go West in slow drive towards to Australia
🇺🇳 SLOW BOAT TO THE LAND OF OZ
🇦🇺 Is there a doctor in the house?
🇦🇺 Family split
🇦🇺 MY LAST FORMAL EDUCATION
🇦🇺 ESCAPISM IN MY TEENAGE LIFE
🇦🇺 I wanted to dig up old bones
🇦🇺 Being camp camping in Centralia
🇳🇨 Too many naked boobies
🇦🇺 The Boy from Snowy River
🇦🇺 Sporting Volunteer 0001
🇦🇺 BECOMING A THESPIAN
🇦🇺 Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
🇺🇸 Sidestepping Hope for the future.
🇦🇺 Coming out with a door slam
🇦🇺 MY TEMPORARY PIVOT AWAY FROM THEATRE
🇦🇺 Historical perspective of an insane time
🇸🇬 The fine art of perception
🇦🇺 I was a (not proud) male stripper in a go-go bar
🇦🇺 Mafia + McDonalds + Homophobia + Government
🇦🇺 A Twisted Theatrical Twist
🇦🇺 Falling Down the Rabbit Hole
🇦🇺 Climbing Out of the Rabbit Hole
🇺🇸 Ageless and evergreen
🇦🇺 Picking myself up, dusting myself off…
🇦🇺 All’s well that ends well
🇺🇸 HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
🇨🇦 CANUCKLAND V.1
🇨🇦 Inching closer to Broadway dreams
🇨🇦 My first experience with the sleeping dragon
🇨🇦 Meeting my dream
🇨🇦 Giving birth to Broadway on the internet
🇨🇦 Nepotism done well
🇬🇧 MERRY OLDE ENGLAND
🇬🇧 Saturday, Sunday, Monday… in real life
🇬🇧 We are such stuff as dreams are made on
🇬🇧 Rumbling to Loch Ness & Rambling in Sheffield
🇬🇧 A Countess, Dr. Who, a gay priest & a President…
🇪🇸 The Spanish / Moroccan jaunt
🇨🇦 THE GREAT WHITE NORTH V.2
🇺🇳 DJ and my first global gallivant together
🇷🇺 To Russia via the Soviet Union
🇨🇦 My Crystal Ball in harnessing the net
🇨🇦 Old Bones & Relics
🇨🇦 Opera on Steroids
🇺🇸 Broadway’s #1 smash changing business models
🇺🇸 RETURN TO THE HOME OF THE BRAVE
🇺🇸 HI-HO, THE GLAMOROUS LIFE
🇺🇸 Failed attempt of a sensible investment
🇺🇳 Cruising for a sunny get-a-way
🇺🇸 Love Reunited
🇺🇳 Relax! Cruising Asia to go down under
🇺🇸 San Francisco here we come
🇦🇺 Daddy Dearest
🇺🇸 Our world came crashing down
🇨🇦 Merging families
🇨🇦 GRAND NORD BLANC DEUXIÈME ACTE V.3
🇪🇺 On land and on sea
🇺🇸 Tap Tap Tapping our troubles away
🇨🇳 Nippon Yakuza evolved to the Red Dragon
🇨🇦 Be Careful What You Wish For
🇨🇳 THE REAL ORIENTAL EXPRESS
🇨🇳 Commute to (and from) Beijing
🇨🇳 Happy Buddha in da house!
🇨🇳 PROCEED TO BEIJING, DO NOT PASS GO
🇨🇳 A COMPREHENSIVE, AUTHORITATIVE
AND DETAILED EXPERT ANALYSIS
OF THE STATE OF CHINESE QUALITY
THEATRE BUSINESS
🇨🇳 CRASH COURSE IN THE REALITY OF
CHINESE LIVE ‘ENTERTAINMENT’
🇨🇳 Laundering Military Missile Sales
🇨🇳 MY 1ST GRAND TOUR OF CHINA
🇨🇳 Good Concept, Bad Execution
🇨🇳 The Birth of Shanghai Cultural Square
🇺🇸 The Mouse that roared
🇨🇳 NEEDYLAND GREAT ESCAPE TO SHANGHAI
🇨🇳 Very Red Tape: Visas, Licenses & Bureaucracy
🇨🇳 80 Certificates are Needed from Birth to Death
🇨🇳 Establishing My Chinese Company
🇨🇳 CHINA’S COMING OUT PARTY
🇨🇳 My Mum’s coming up party
🇨🇳 Everyone’s milestone parties
🇨🇳 Shanghai Expo on steroids
🇨🇳 Brainwashing Mania aka (re) education
🇨🇳 WEIRD & ECCENTRIC LIVING CONDITIONS
🇨🇳 “It’s just a little fog”
🇨🇳 Insane Nationalism = Brilliant Propaganda
🇨🇳 Sharp Eyes / Social Credit / Chinternet
🇨🇳 Local existence
🇨🇳 Tis the season, not. Merry.
🇨🇳 Not faked?, likely banned, increasing popularity
🇨🇳 Overcoming 4,000 years of superstitions
🇨🇳 SHOWS, TOURS & MORE FAKERY
🇨🇳 Keynotes to full rooms of nobody listening
🇨🇳 Oily liars and a load of hot gas in Langfang
🇨🇳 Miracles of Terracotta Warriors Non-Achievement
🇨🇳 Olympic Style Circus Madness
🇰🇷 And it’s not just Rocky in China!
🇨🇳 But it’s mostly China: Big Bird in Flight
🇨🇳 Greenlights to State Owned Enterprises
🇨🇳 FALLING ON DEAF EARS
🇨🇳 BRINGING ORDER FROM CHAOS
🇺🇳 Mental Health Escapes from the Mainland
🇪🇺 The last days of carefree luxury travel.
🇬🇧 Driving home history in Ye Olde England
🇺🇸 Shanghai to Hollywood for Shanghai Mousevilleland
🇹🇷 Turkish Tea & Tear Gas
🇵🇭 A Beached White Whale and bucket of Beer
🇹🇭 Bangkok… And The World’s Your Oyster
🇹🇭 Lonely Islands
🇺🇳 Cruising through Asia, again
🇰🇷 Between a ROK and a hard place
🇰🇭 Put on some rouge, Khmer and be gay
🇻🇳 Good morning, Vietnam again
🇮🇩 Bizarrely gnarly Bali
🇲🇿 Cruising New Zealand & Australia
🇪🇬 The Queens visit the Valley of the Kings
🇦🇺 LIFE’S CURVEBALLS
🇨🇳 Fear, Isolation, Observation and Patience
🏁 Believe in Science! Off to Mars
🇨🇳 AFTERLIFE WITH A TINGE OF MADNESS
🇨🇳 A VERY CHINGLISH CURTAIN CALL
🇺🇳 PROCLAMATION FOR MY ASSASSINATION
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