There’s an urban legend about a dead dog in a suitcase. A woman kills a dog by accident, puts it in a suitcase to take it to the vets, and on the way she is mugged of said dead dog in suitcase. Writer and frequent...
Read MoreIn the interval of Tennessee Williams’s first play, The Glass Menagerie at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, I overheard one broadsheet critic (who shall remain nameless) say to another: “It’s all very well but why...
Read MoreThere are two people in a room, the director of The Crucible and her designer. They are talking about the final act, the one after the interval, and saying it would be a brilliant idea to fill the stage with water. They are so...
Read MoreWhen I was 17, I discovered who I wanted to be. I wanted to act and that was that. The theatre was my passion and, as an aspiring actor, it was (coming from Burnley in Lancashire) a more accessible way into performance than the...
Read More‘One sure way to bring people together is to give them a really good enemy.’ When I was six or seven, my mother sat me down in front of an old black and white film and said, “you must watch this.”...
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