Richard, one of the central characters in Daniel Dingsdale's debut play Dark Tourism (like me) has a thing for quotations. The irony is that he's a peddler of lowest common denominator culture, a "celebrity" PR with a hotline to the tabloids, who once dreamed of high-brow literary success.
Why are strong women – and witches – so scary?
Hannah Hutch in Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern. © Richard Davenport Tonight
This is England: Barbarians tap into anti-austerity rage
Jake Davies, Thomas Coombes and Josh Williams in Tooting Arts Club's production of Barbarians
My Conference diary: A striking similarity to the Edinburgh Fringe
David Cameron rhetorically invading Labour Party territory in his 2015 Conservative Party conference speech
Mark Rylance: ‘What’s wrong with being a theatre actor?’
Mark Rylance in Farinelli and the King On this Sunday’s Andrew Marr Show
INTERVIEW (pt2): Barney Norris on Peter Gill, Van Gogh writing and theatres as ’empathy engines’
Playwright Barney Norris has followed his award-winning debut Visitors with Eventide, which is now running at London's
INTERVIEW (pt1): Eventide’s Barney Norris on monoculture, Thomas Hardy and Salisbury dreams
Barney Norris with Eventide cast member Ellie Piercy in rehearsals I've been looking
Hello, crazy collectors: 15 world record-breaking collections
Shaun Evans, Miranda Raison and various collectables in Hello/Goodbye at Hampstead Theatre If