There’s a challenge to taking a story as well-known as Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley and making something fresh and new without losing the spark of the original. But I’m pleased to say that Mark Leipacher has...
Read MoreOh my, it’s nearly Christmas. We love our festive traditions and here’s a particular favourite: the Northern Soul Christmas poem by Wendy Pratt, written in response to Paul Hunter’s beautiful photograph. Snow Blind Time...
Read MoreAlan Ayckbourn has written more than 80 plays. He is 80-years-old and, earlier in 2019, he celebrated the 60th anniversary of his professional playwriting debut (with The Square Cat). But he’d never written a novel –...
Read MoreSometimes you watch a play which is so good that it revitalises your love for theatre. The Monstrous Heart is that play for me. Mag lives in an isolated log cabin in the mountains of British Columbia. She has built a new life...
Read MoreSeason’s Greetings first premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough back in 1980, and this year it’s back as part of the annual Alan Ayckbourn double-bill: two plays written and directed by Ayckbourn, who is the...
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