Quite apart from being one of the top tourist attractions in London, the West End is part of the fabric that holds the 'Big Smoke' together. For centuries the West End has held a pivotal cul…
The piece is an avant-garde rock concert & experimental text collage in response to the worship of life and fetishisation of death. It's a poem on the topic of self-destruction, a portr…
Sleeping Beauty runs at Malvern Theatres from 15 December 2016 to 8 January 2017, for more information and to book your tickets for this fabulous family pantomime, follow this link: http://w…
When I read it and saw that Elspeth was what one might call a character part I jumped at the opportunity and was thrilled. Elspeth Howe is not essentially like me and these are the kind of r…
I started writing this play in 2012 and, even though I obviously haven't been working on it that whole time, it has felt like a lot of work to get to this point. The initial idea came out of…
The thought of the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher being played by a man sounded somewhat akin to Pantomime Dame, but I didn't bank on the brilliance of Steve Nallon who is known for providing …
Mrs Lovett has always been a role I would love to inhabit. I like to think I can pay homage to the great Dame Angela Lansbury within my version.
I'm basically fixated on new stories and fresh perspectives " I wrote Skin a Cat because I didn't see my experiences of sex reflected in the media around me.
First performed in 1775, The Rivals is still standing the test of time, it seems, and never more evident than with this production at the glorious Bristol Old Vic. The eloquent dialogue (wri…
The two dominant strands running through the piece are both the voice and running and how they became interconnected. I wanted the audience to experience moments of what it may have been lik…
The We Plays are a continuation of a series of Monologues I wrote in 2014 titled 'The Me Plays'. Those plays 'Junkie' & 'Hi Life, I Win" were semi autobiographical in nature and framed …
It's a reworking of Shakespeare's Richard III. I was thinking about the fact that men get all the best speeches. Even where women have played those parts and bring a different perspective on…
More fablas than I can say, more 'mazing than 'lympics! This piece is an absolute triumph and the two-hander cast which comprises of Gregory Ashton and the ever amazing Louise Jameson as son…
Lyn Paul is described as the definitive Mrs Johnstone and last night, I saw the reason for this accolade, as she brought the house down in Blood Brothers at Malvern Theatres.
We started with some intense r&d on Strindberg's play, and found a surprisingly modern 1901 existentialist piece. Some research into the interpretation of dreams via Freud and Jung foll…
Bessie Carter has the knack of moving seamlessly from a carefree, smiley young woman, to a conniving estranged daughter, to an opinionated Communist. Facial expressions that she puts to exce…
I spoke to actress Bessie Carter about her character in JB Priestley's The Roundabout, running at London's Park Theatre until 24 September 2016, how the show has been received so far and her…
I wanted to do the play as truthfully and faithfully as JB Priestley intended it to be. I said to Priestley's agent that I had no intention of setting it in a fairground just because it's ca…
The line-up for this orchestral collaboration included Carrie Fertig, Alistair MacDonald and Stuart Brown. I felt that the introduction they gave was informative and fascinating. There was o…
Sister is about the overwhelming and infuriating glue that holds families together. It is a collection of real life stories, made out of interviews with almost 50 women. The stories are told…
The show progressed immensely during rehearsals. Watching different people play the roles is watching the show develop from the page to the stage. Workshopping is always a vital role in orig…
While performing in the UK tour of THE SOUND OF MUSIC at the Swansea Grand Theatre, Tammy Davies and Pippa Winslow double up for a late night cabaret benefiting local charity Swansea Mind on…
I find Clairee quite a mystery, I was quite unsure about where she was coming from. She's clearly a woman with heart like they all are, but she does this thing where she pulls the rug from u…
I hope audiences will take away that a relationship is a relationship, whether gay, lesbian or straight we all have the same relationship issues to combat in modern society.
My favourite moment is actually when I'm off stage and being able to listen in to the audience's reactions. The moment Gavin (Mark Renton) wakes up in the bed with a few surprises beneath th…