You can see an extract from my single-hander LIFEFORCE next week (Thurs 1st) at Canvas and Cream in Forest Hill, London. It's part of "Initial Sketches", an evening of short plays and extracts. Come along if you fancy seeing some new writing. www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/for...

KING OF THE WORLD - a dark comedy for dark times. If any theatre person is interested in a 60min drama about the impact of hard-man leaders on their subjects let me know, I'll send you the script.

Everyone needs a side-hustle…

Pampers and two half bottles of vodka. Who’d be a new parent…

Five years since the first lockdown. Here are the twelve monologues I wrote around that time. Filmed on their phone by twelve very fine actors. www.briancoyle.co.uk/we-will-not-...

Thank you @papatangotc.bsky.social !!

Just saw The Winter's Tale at the Tobacco Factory Theatre. Terrific production: a fresh take and quite moving. If you're in Bristol or near by I recommend. tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/the-wi...

Fascinating in-depth article on the behemoth that is Netflix. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Announcing the winners of our Earlybird Draw! Joel Wall, Brian Coyle and Chloe Wade are our lucky winners! Congratulations - prizes will be on their way shortly! #PapatangoStudio #Theatre #Playwriting #Playwrights

#playchat if you don’t surprise yourself, you’re not going to surprise your audience.

“I sometimes fear that / people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress.” Michael Rosen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Please sign the petition. One of the absolute places in London. #SaveThePCC

My 2024? A bit like waiting for a bus I’ve had no productions on for ages and then two came along this year (THE BOX in London and TIMELESS in Edinburgh). Many thanks to all the people involved in the productions and everyone who came to see the shows.

Annual viewing complete. I will never tire of this classic.

What was the best new play this year then?

Every year I start off wrapping Christmas presents with the greatest of intention to make them look beautiful, but 3 gifts in and they all start looking like something an Evri driver has dropkicked over a neighbour’s hedge into a muddy puddle.

Day 1 of my #AdventCalendar

Don’t miss the brilliant film adaptation of the great August Wilson play #ThePianoLesson on Netflix. Stunning.

Really nice story. Gen Z'er discovers her late father's ten thousand record collection and reviews a sample of them. “There’s something really beautiful about having physical copies of music...The scratches I can see on the records were scratches that he made" www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...

Letizia Battaglia at the Photographers’ Gallery in London. A must see.

I've finally escaped from the doomverse. Hello!