Theatre

A post that deals with some concerns evident in ‘Dash Dash Dash’, a series of shows I wrote and directed in 2010 There...

In 1983 Lumiere & Son Theatre Company was commissioned to make a short film for the flagship Channel 4 arts...

Lumiere & Son Theatre Company was founded in 1973 by Hilary Westlake and David Gale. It was based in London....

These are the credits for the whole series.Actors: Gareth Brierley, Chris Newland, Bernadette Russell, Jude...

The Dash Dash Dash series of short plays was prefigured by the making, over the years, of a number of playlets inhouse...

The characters:Roy - Chris NewlandDean - Gareth BrierleyGina - Jude Barrington-SmutsNina - Abigail Davis GINA I was...

The characters:BobbinTimmyGretchenTrinaSECTION 1: OPENING DIALOGIN THE COURSE OF THE SHOW FOUR LONG SPEECHES ROTATE A...

The set designed for this playlet was exceptional. It was dominated by a high window through which shone a blue light....

The characters:Ann - a cricketerPat - a policewomanTod - an actorDan - a documentary film maker THE ACTORS ARE IN...

A group of volatile people with poor impulse control spend time together in a room. Some of them leave the room in...

Themes of parallel universes/the multiverse/quantum physics are bandied about in some of the dialogue and echoed in...

This playlet was directly inspired by Martin Arnold's remarkable 12 minute film Passage à l'Acte (1993). The film uses...

The play references the 'Hamlet' play-within-a-play but it is not clear, in this version, which is the outer and which...

A response to A Winter's Tale, in particular to the mad jealousy of Leontes, King of Sicily, who believes wrongly that...

THIS RESPONSE TO ELEMENTS OF 'TWELFTH NIGHT' IS BASED ON AN ORIGINAL SCRIPT FOR THE TV SHOW 'FRIENDS'.A SIX-HANDER FOR...

A response to 'Hamlet'. Cast:Hamlet - Christopher NewlandClaudius - Ben MartinOphelia - Jude Smuts HAMLET BEGINS TO...

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...

A response to Webster's 'The White Devil', in which themes of infidelity, plotting and revenge are transposed to a...

The script, written in 2004, demonstrates how very quickly certain cultural references become as dated as black and...

The playlet was derived from themes in 'The Tempest'. Allusions may also be detected to the classic science fiction...

There must be something we can do with these gadgets, we thought. If we don't use them we've got to find a place to...

Prior to writing the script hereunder, performed at Wimbledon College of Art in January 2008, I ventilated here my...

In late 1973 Hilary Westlake and I were commissioned to supply in-foyer diversions for a Henry Cow concert at London's...

This playlet is an adaptation of certain aspects of King Lear, written in 2003 for theatre design students at...

When I came across the bit in 'Hamlet' where Claudius asks Hamlet the name of the play he has prepared and Hamlet says...

(See an introduction to this playlet here ) Leonardo DiCaprio plays Paris, Friar Laurence and Lady Capulet.CYCLE...

(Find the playlet here) How nice it would be, I thought, to tweak 'Romeo & Juliet' so that the depressing bits...

When I began writing for performance in 1972 I was keen to avoid the rhythms and cadences of so-called 'naturalistic...

a programme note for 'I Am Dandy' (1999) Back in the days when gentlemen's style magazines were attempting a balance...

'Dandyism', for these purposes, is the quality of being 'Dandy' rather than being 'a Dandy'. In 1999 I wrote and...

The show was written in separate sections. At the time of writing I had no firm sense of the proper order of the...

It sounded good on the phone. My partner from the days of Lumiere & Son, Hilary Westlake, asked me if I fancied...

an unfinished monologue commissioned for a celebration to mark the completed refurbishment and re-opening of the De la...

A 'lecture' commissioned by Forced Entertainment for 'Marathon Lexicon' (2003) I like a laugh, me. I'd do anything for...

I got a call from Tim Etchells of Forced Entertainment. The company had been touring a show called 'Marathon Lexicon'...

The playlet is the result of subtracting everything apart from the blood from the text of Webster's 'The White Devil'....

(find the playlet script here) I had done the Wimbledon gig for three years and was pleased, towards the end of 2005,...

Once a year, since 2002, I have been asked to participate in what is called the Renaissance Project in the Theatre...

In 2002 I was asked if I would like to direct an excerpt from a Shakespeare play for some theatre design students at...

a playlet written for theatre design students at Wimbledon College of Art...