What story would you tell in 10 minutes? That time you watched a chicken drive a forklift. The 100-year-old cup of tea you found in the arctic ice sheet. Or pe...
Embarrassingly, I had never seen a production of a Noël Coward play before Present Laughter. I had of course read some of his work, and heard of his undeniable...
Hold it! Flash, bang, wallop, what a show! After a run that received rave reviews at the Chichester Festival Theatre, the foot-stomping Half a Sixpence has ‘blo...
Noël Coward tends to take a bit of a bashing nowadays. The average Coward production is about as unfashionable as its octogenarian audience is unaware of where ...
Staging famous plays from well-known playwrights can often be a double edged sword for smaller theatres. It can attract a bigger crowd who will often attend wor...
Hay Fever is over 90 years old and, unfortunately, it shows. Coward’s comedy of errors about a dysfunctional family’s disastrous attempt to entertain guests was...