Dear Future Successful Self, This is your conscience calling. You seem to have forgotten in your upward spiral of fame and fortune your younger, treading-the-water-to-save-from-drowning, predecessor. Try to remember, I know it must be hard, a time when things weren’t so stable and the life you are enjoying now seemed impossible to imagine and you [...]

I think you may know what’s coming; funding cuts – it really is the same sad repeating story. We’ve been in a recession for what seems like forever and I doubt there’s one of us who hasn’t felt the pinch – young people always seem to take the brunt of it. From mass unemployment in [...]

Following on from my little rant last week, this blog is dedicated to ‘Joe’ who so rightly pointed out that Shakespeare has a lot to answer for in the war between Literature and Theatre. To pinch a phrase from the main man himself, Ol’ Shakey, like me, is ‘making the beast with two backs’ (copping [...]

Many people would contend that you can’t be in love with two people at the same time. So how come I find myself torn between the two great loves of my life: Mr. Literature and Mr. Theatre? And why is it that I routinely feel the need to choose either/or, when the two should be [...]