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The Poltergeist

By |2022-09-20T12:13:10+01:0018 October 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

After post-show Q&As for Tonight with Donnie Darko, Vincent River, Angry and Tender Napalm, I'm delighted to be invited to chair another discussion with Philip Ridley, one of the UK's greatest and most innovative living playwrights. This time for the live stage premiere of his online lockdown hit The Poltergeist.

My theatre diary: Plays 4000 Days, Hangmen, The Dazzle, Jane Wenham, The Long Road South

By |2020-03-27T12:56:46+00:0025 January 2016|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I'm well overdue for a theatre diary, aren't I? So here goes with a quick one

My theatre diary: ‘New’ plays The First Man, Ticking, Teddy Ferrara, Eventide

By |2020-03-27T13:00:13+00:0022 October 2015|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The new play's the thing, even when it's very old.... Here are four I've seen over

INTERVIEW (pt2): Barney Norris on Peter Gill, Van Gogh writing and theatres as ’empathy engines’

By |2020-03-27T13:02:01+00:0028 September 2015|Tags: , , , , , , , |

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

By |2020-03-27T13:02:08+00:0025 September 2015|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Barney Norris with Eventide cast member Ellie Piercy in rehearsals I've been looking

Photos and podcast: The making of new British musical The House of Mirrors and Hearts

By |2020-03-28T23:59:02+00:007 July 2015|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The adage – usually attributed to Sondheim – that “musicals aren’t written, they’re rewritten” was central to the post-show discussion that I hosted last night at London's Arcola Theatre.

As Good a Time as Any for … ‘Women of a Certain Age’ as people not Product

By |2020-03-27T13:07:16+00:0014 May 2015|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The cast of As Good a Time as Any at London's Print Room: Sharlene

My theatre diary: Three must-see new plays Clarion, Level Playing Field, Oppenheimer

By |2020-03-27T13:07:52+00:0030 April 2015|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Joe Layton and Jojo Macari in Jonathan Guy Lewis' A Level Playing Field at

Press pass: All you need to know about how Clarion dishes the dirt on the tabloids

By |2020-01-08T08:41:25+00:0030 April 2015|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Greg Hicks and Peter Bourke in Mark Jagasia's Clarion at the Arcola Theatre. ©

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