• getting it done

    As I look out on the winter wonderland outside, I’m warmed by the thought of having completed the first full draft of the Rough Fiction autumn play for this year.  Hopefully by then the country will be in the grips of an Indian summer and many people will finally have experienced a play that started life over …

  • a good news story for the arts, youth and playwriting at the National Theatre.

    Surely now that the claims made by papers like The Telegraph that thermal imaging cameras have proved the “Occupy London Stock Exchange” protest camp is largely empty at night have been solidly debunked we can return to the image of people protesting about what they believe in.  Agree with it or don’t agree with it, it’s fantastic to see people with …

  • private law

    These last three days have marked the nineteenth (after some conference debate that it was the twentieth or even twenty first)National Independent Schools’ Drama Association Conference.  One word in this title will already have some of the left wing amongst us wishing to raise points but to the politics of private education we shall return later. …

  • “we needed the attention of the witnesses to know that we weren’t talking just to ourselves…” Halprin

    All views expressed on this site are personal and not the views of any institution or business I’m involved with. The biggest news to date is that The Last of the Lake will be touring in the autumn now thanks to new Arts Council funding.  We are incredibly excited and we’d love you to watch …