Opportunity: Grosvenor Park Young Company seeks writers
Grosvenor Park Young Company: Young Writers Are you aged 16 – 24 years and have an interest in writing? Chester Performs is looking for aspiring writers to j...
Writing
Guest blog: Peter Hamilton – Overcoming writer’s block
Photo credit Bill Knight Some years ago I attended a playwriting course with Stuart Browne, a playwright and teacher, who introduced me to the concept of th...
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...
Review: Nothing Compares to You, University of York
Bryony Lavery is a prolific playwright, and has written some well-known, cracking plays that are lyrical and evocative. Her play Nothing Compares to You, howeve...
Features: Sam Holcoft, The Wardrobe and NT Connections
Across five centuries of British history, small groups of children seek sanctuary in the same solid, old wardrobe. It’s the safest place they know – but is it s...
Feature: Revolutionising Julius Caesar – Capitalism, churches and change
For 7th Magpies Theatre Company, “the play is always the point of departure.” Dramaturg Ash Rowbin explains how it will be devising around Shakespeare’s origina...