Dear Reader, hope this finds you well. As I write this, I have only four performances left of what’s been a truly memorable experience performing Harold Pinter’s ‘Old Times’. Small nuances have changed the way we and the audiences have responded to it. Fifty percent of our audience is students of one form or another.…
The autumn leaves are falling and election fever in the good ol’ US of A is reaching its climax. I for one really hope that they keep that black American man in the White House. Even if the thought of little black American children running around playing hide-and-seek in it is a source of profound…
Dear reader, hope this finds you well and happy as we race into autumn. At least it’s still relatively warm and sunny. We should try to enjoy this, because if we fast-forward four weeks: W-h-o-o-s-h! What we will strain our eyes to try and see in the darkness, and worse the constant greyness, will be…
The London Olympics seem to have converted even the most hardened cynic into embracing its ideals, making us smile and proud to be British. What a difference a year makes eh? Riots last summer, but now it seems that GB is at one with itself. We have many reasons to hold our heads up…
I asked my Facebook friends to let me know what noises they liked and disliked. Try and guess the gender of who said the following. Some of them are mine: “Birds chirping in the garden, babies laughing, water running in the bath tub, bells chiming, a Ferrari engine! Boat masts flapping in the wind,…
I saw an article on Facebook recently about the healing power of music: an old man, surviving in a nursing home in the US, had been living in his own little world and hardly communicating with patients or staff for over 10 years. Then someone had the bright idea of placing some headphones over his…
Well dear reader, our latest and original production ‘Shakespeare Unplugged’ has surpassed my hopes. As I write this, we’ve sold 90 percent of our tickets and I feel that we have a piece of magic on our hands. This seldom happens to this extent in my experience, and I’m hoping that we as a theatre…
Well, is this brass-monkey weather or what? Why do we live in this freezing climate? Why? I have to because I’ve got a family here, but it’s tempting to cast a glance at a world map and choose somewhere a tad warmer to live, isn’t it? Of course, apart from my loved ones, I’ve…
07:45AM: Doors slide open to a terrace revealing a calm and slightly overcast tropical island setting: palm trees sway gently on the fringes of a 20-metre well-kept lawn between a ground floor balcony and the invitingly warm waters of the Gulf of Thailand. “LifeÂ’s good,” I say to myself. “IÂ’m lucky.” I know I am.…
Thanks to all the readers of this column who came and experienced our production of Edward Albee’s ‘The Zoo Story’. Everyone involved and everyone who saw it has taken part in an adventure examining in essence what it is to be human. “To be or not to be,” according to Hamlet, or “What’s it all…
He’s a Danish movie producer and co-founder of Zentropa, whose nickname is ‘Ålen’ (the eel). Nevertheless, when recently confronted with allegations that he has sexually harassed women, he was anything but slippery, freely admitting that “it’s part of who I am”. So a bit like Kevin Spacey? No, a million times unlike the American actor’s…
