The collaboration between writer/performer Danny Braveman and director Nick Philippou has been thirty years in the making. For much of that time Braveman has been working in community contexts including London Bubble and Theatre Royal Stratford East whilst Philippou has been honing his skills at Actors Touring Company and the RSC amongst others. The influence […]

Lowri Evans has got a secret she can’t keep any longer: her life. Her secret life, no less. A scrapbook of memories; not only hers, but ours and everyone’s. A scrapbook that is already fading. All smiles and sparkles, Evans weaves us through threads of her childhood, of a long distance love affair between Brazil […]

Andy Smith is on a mission; he wants to change the world. He wants us to change the world, all of us, together, in this room. Smith is a writer, dramaturg and performer, most recently with Tim Crouch in what happens to the hope at the end of the evening, which he co-wrote. These two […]

Oh won’t you walk with me! Dorothy Max Prior reflects on recent promenade theatre work West Street, Brighton on a chilly Saturday night in November. Reader beware, we are entering the brash and breezy land of street fighting, arcade gambling, and hen night shenanigans. Walking down this street is like entering a film set, or […]

‘I’m with those who haven’t bloomed, haven’t blossomed, who make wrong choices,’ says Jack Charles. His past is laid bare in the opening sequence from the biographical film Bastardy (2008), in which he nonchalantly injects heroin. The film’s tagline was even blunter: ‘Addict. Homosexual. Cat burglar. Actor. Aboriginal.’ This stage version is more nuanced, combining […]