Feature: The Write to Play
The Write to Play programme is Graeae’s writer development programme, now in its second year and this time around focussed on the North West of England. I inter...
Tom Powell
Feature: Amit Sharma – Graeae could close in six years
I arrive at Graeae’s Bradbury studios to talk to Amit Sharma about their Write to Play scheme. Graeae are pretty much unique – a theatre company run by Deaf and...
Feature: Brain of Brittain
Jon Brittain is a busy man. We meet in a cafe opposite an old church he’s rehearsing Potted Sherlock in – he’s directing – between days of filming short sketche...
Feature: Alistair McDowall – “Pomona is an odd beast”
Pomona image by Manuel Harlan Alistair McDowall Alistair McDowall is fidgety and nervous when we meet at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, where his pla...
Feature: Spotlight on Adam Penford
You probably won’t know the name of the director Adam Penford. But it’s pretty likely you or someone you know will see something of his work this year. Becaus...
Feature: Captain Amazing: Dusting off the Cape
When Captain Amazing strides onto the Soho stage later this month, cape aflutter, it will be the latest step in a heroically long journey. The one-man, multi-ch...
Tom Powell
Tom recently graduated from the MA in Writing for Performance at at Goldsmiths. His work has won the OTR National Radio Drama Award, and the Cambridge Footlights' Harry Porter Prize. He is a member of Soho Writer's Lab, and the Southwark Playhouse Young Company. He likes plays.