Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a… 

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, … 

Death of an Author

Death of an Author

What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br… 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott. 

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London… 

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles

A glorious May morning in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex. 

Tess

Tess

The blank, sterile corridors of Surgeons Hall are not where you might expect to find folky fun late at night. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey. 

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Spellbinding music. 

Storyland Author Readings

Storyland Author Readings

Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum. 

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely. 

Bluebird

Bluebird

‘How the fuck would you know that feeling?’. 

Blue Beard

Blue Beard

Blue Beard is a nasty man with a nasty plan: he cuts the throats of the women he marries. 

Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers

Let’s face it, when the Liverpudlian narrator of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers’s asks ‘have you ever heard the story of the Johnston twins?’, you probably have. 

Big Day for the Goldbergs

Big Day for the Goldbergs

‘Same old story,’ remarks Lucille Goldberg as she discusses her family’s past. 

Fastest Woman Alive

Fastest Woman Alive

Jackie Cochran: first female pilot to break the sound barrier; ambitious individual in the face of prejudice and set-backs; woman suffering the nightmarish memory of her first chil… 

Beauty and Meaning of Autographs

Beauty and Meaning of Autographs

Deep Dark South’s programme note for The Beauty and Meaning of Autographs is comprehensive and clear. 

Beauty is Prison-Time

Beauty is Prison-Time

Lashmela might sound like any ordinary girl. 

Rabbits, Ladders and Stars in Jars

Rabbits, Ladders and Stars in Jars

The stripy t-shirt wearing, variously lipsticked or mustashioed cast of puppetry show Rabbits, Ladders and Stars in Jars start their piece with five minutes of laughter, grunts and… 

Clinical Lies

Clinical Lies

‘Turn your mobiles off and be quiet’ spit two masked characters at the start of Clinical Lies. 

Evening with Dementia

Evening with Dementia

If you’ve been in Edinburgh for a few weeks, or even days, you will probably have experienced the Evening with Dementia marketing campaign, which consists of actor Trevor T. 

Under the Blacklight

Under the Blacklight

As crotchety Anne tells her bumbling assistant Jennifer in Nick Moran’s Under the Blacklight, the stage manager’s realm is amongst the ‘ghosts of dead ambition and infinite amou… 

Stacy

Stacy

Rob keeps reminding us that he was ‘a beautiful child‘. 

Author

Author

An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouch’s last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly… 

Are You There?

Are You There?

Couple Francisco and Anna share their flat with Fergus. 

Orlando

Orlando

Orlando claims an oak tree trunk is ‘anything to which I could attach my floating heart’, such is the power of his imagination. 

Penelope by Enda Walsh

Penelope by Enda Walsh

We are at the bottom of a drained swimming pool in the baking summer heat. 

Proper Night

Proper Night

A group of college friends and associated mates head to a festival, expecting a proper night of drink, drugs and dancing. 

4.3 Miles From Nowhere

4.3 Miles From Nowhere

A comic tale of growing up and getting lost in the countryside. 

Terrible Tales of the Midnight Chorus

Terrible Tales of the Midnight Chorus

Edward Wren cuts a fine macabre master of ceremonies in The River People’s Terrible Tales of the Midnight Chorus. 

Death of the Unicorn

Death of the Unicorn

Death of the Unicorn is a hodge-podge of a play. 

Wonderland

Wonderland

The late 1890s.