It’s that time of year when I write two plays in four days and rehearse each one for eight hours. This is the annual performance project at Wimbledon College of Art, where I teach, from time to time, in the Theatre School, which delivers one of the most...
I have to say I really love ‘In the Bosom of Roy’. It marked a change of gear in my writing and I loved watching it being performed by the actors. Around that time I wrote here about my impatience with theatre whose form was inappropriately coherent, given...
Underway: the early stages of a seven month long programme of short plays to be written, produced and presented at the rate of one a month, culminating in an omnibus edition in the seventh month. Dash Dash Dash will open at the Battersea Arts Centre in London on...
This post is part of a series. Please start reading at ‘Stage & Screen 1’ below. In his editorial introduction to the January 1968 special edition of ‘Scalebor’ mental hospital magazine, price sixpence, 24 year old...
This playlet is an adaptation of certain aspects of King Lear, written in 2003 for theatre design students at Wimbledon College of Art. (It was the first time I had ‘adapted’ a Shakespeare text for WCA) (see introduction to this script here and here) Some...
