O Brave New World
Arts PRs take note: this is how you make your show stand out.
Five Truths
First, some context, so you know what on Earth I’m reacting to. Five Truths – Victoria and Albert Museum What are the differences between five of the most influential European theatre practitioners of the 20th century? How would these five directors work with the actress playing Ophelia in the famous mad scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet? … Read more
There’s more to Mervyn Peake than Gormenghast
I first became aware of Mervyn Peake through the BBC2 Gormenghast miniseries, bought the collected tie-in edition of the novels, and never thought to delve deeper.
Storifying
The journalist is a filter, ordering chaos to make it digestible for anyone who has the yen to understand.
Wilderness sabbatical
From now on I’ll be updating this blog only sporadically, if at all.
Writer and performer Michael Laurence on Krapp, 39
In which I talk to writer and performer Michael Laurence about his new play, Krapp, 39 (Tristan Bates Theatre), which is an autobiographical piece in which Laurence, a Samuel Beckett fan and inspired by Krapp’s Last Tape (1958), creates a diary using video, a laptop and audio recording on his 39th birthday.
Reviled. Respected. Revived.
I didn’t enjoy the Lyric Hammersmith’s revival of Blasted – but you’d think I was sick if I said I had, right?
The Print Room: the newest theatre in London
In which Lucy Bailey and Anda Winters, the Co-Artistic Directors of The Print Room in Notting Hill, London’s newest theatre venue, talk to me about the venture.
Lorca is Dead (and behind the scenes, I thought I was too)
I don’t think anyone needs me to spell out the lessons to be learned from this incident. Just don’t do what I did.
Heroin(e) for Breakfast
If Heroin(e) for Breakfast were the only play to barge down the fourth wall and berate the audience about their lifestyle, it would be groundbreaking, challenging, even blistering in its attack on modern social mores. But Tim Crouch already did it in The Author, Lowri Jenkins did it in 19;29′s Threshold, David Leddy did it in Sub Rosa – and that’s just counting shows at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
