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Triggered post-show video and photos: Spotlight on the human side of party politics

By |2022-12-15T20:28:58+00:0024 November 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

One of the few things I enjoy even more than theatre is talking politics. Chairing a post-show discussion about a brilliant new political play, written and directed by a Westminster insider, is my idea of bliss.

Marlowe’s Fate post-show video and photos: Who really wrote William Shakespeare’s plays?

By |2021-11-21T17:34:32+00:0012 November 2021|Tags: , , , , |

More than four centuries after William Shakespeare died in 1616, aged 52 on his own birthday (23 April), questions remain about the authorship of his prodigious output - including nearly forty plays and more than 150 sonnets. 

Vaudevilles post-show video and photos: Seeing the surprisingly funny side of Anton Chekhov

By |2021-10-29T10:44:14+01:0028 October 2021|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Anton Chekhov is, of course, best known for his "big five" classic plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. None of which, though the author himself labelled them tragicomedies, are associated with hilarity.

Anton Chekhov’s Vaudevilles

By |2021-10-02T18:13:21+01:0027 October 2021|Tags: , , , , , , |

I have huge respect for Mercurius Theatre and its artistic director Jenny Eastop, who I conducted a Zoom Q&A with during lockdown. I can't wait to do my make my in-person Mercurius Q&A 'debut' with Anton Chekhov's Vaudevilles.

An Honourable Man Q&A video and photos: Has there ever been a more poisonous time in UK politics? (Insiders’ views)

By |2020-01-26T22:05:51+00:0022 November 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Populism, patriotism, political theatre, predictions for Brexit and the fast-paced nature of life-imitating-art-imitating-life were amongst the topics covered in an incredibly good-natured discussion across a wide partisan spectrum at An Honourable Man.

WATCH show vlogs: Julius Caesar, Beginning, The Lady With a Dog and Foul Pages

By |2020-02-01T23:49:51+00:0026 February 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I've been raving about Julius Caesar to everyone over the past few weeks, and particularly the experience of seeing it in the pit of the staggeringly versatile Bridge Theatre.

Prometheus updated: From Frankenstein to artificial intelligence in The Test

By |2020-03-27T12:45:13+00:0030 September 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Christopher Tester in Frankenstein and Natasha Killam in The Test It has been

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