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I’ve returned to the megalith of a play. Or it has returned to me. I couldn’t avoid it much longer without feeling that I’m letting myself down in some way. So much of calling [...]

A year ago this week, I platformed a play of mine called Back to Terra Firma at a cool new writing theatre called Theatre503, in Battersea. Although the play had been gestating for years, (it’s [...]

Photo by Pepe Gavilondo We could all do with a large dose of the primordial – conflicts, cost of living and the lure of attention-grabbing from devices has made the hybrid world a fractious [...]

Let’s lay down a disclaimer from the off – I am not a huge Timothée Chalamet fan. This defence is not coming from a position of studying his cheekbones with lust so much as a looking at one of my [...]

  The sensation of completing the TV pilot is similar to consuming a much-craved ice-cream on a hot day, which considering I’m aiming at moreish television, feels promising. However, I’m [...]

Photo by Laurent-Phillipe Adam Linder’s Acid Gems and Marco da Silva Ferreira’s a Folia both pop as ensemble pieces with instantly recognisable aesthetics – holding true to a trend for live dance [...]

On Saturday, US-Israel air-strikes left 165 people dead and dozens wounded at a girls’ school in Minab, following escalating tensions over Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme. This was one [...]

So, I have minutely sad news. The beta play isn’t exactly dead. It is in Purgatory. Its soul is on the shelf, due to the arrival of a much shinier cousin. Unfortunately, or fortunately [...]

photo of ensemble by Dimitri Djuric Japan’s Chiten Theatre has brought an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s existentialist novella The Gambler to London, prompting philosophy’s favourite question – [...]

I’d like to talk about extra textual sleuthing, hitherto known as ETS. Let’s face it, unless you have a couple of hefty writing commissions that cover your rent/mortgage and bi-weekly [...]