Site visit for the opera (Salome) I’m directing this spring. Know where I am ?

Listening to a conversation behind me yesterday : ‘we’ve been to a recording of the Graham Norton show. There was a comedian with huge teeth, a woman who was in something called Wicked, Chris somebody who’s big in Hollywood and the Vicar of Dibley’. Bliss.

Saw this last night and jit’s BRILLIANT !! Some tix abailable for today’s matinee GO !!!!! www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk//an-ideal-hu...

Saw this last night and jit’s BRILLIANT !! Some tix abailable for today’s matinee GO !!!!! www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk//an-ideal-hu...

My thoughts on this week’s cultural highlights can be heard by clicking on the link ! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I was fortunate enough to see this show in Kosovo. It’s touring internationally. Do catch it if it comes near you

Fackham Hall (in cinemas now) is a glorious vintage cellar stocked full of the oldest puns, sight gags and prat falls. They’ve matured deliciously

Happy New Year from our midnight drinkers !

My review of the theatre year 2025.

Buying a book yesterday and the person working the till says to me : Are you a poet ? I consider something like ‘in my own way’ but settle for ‘no’ You look like a poet, she says. And I had a spring in my step for the rest of the day

Pentabus Young Writers – Local Applications Now Open! If you’re 18–30 and living in the rural shropshire ? West Midlands? or Wales? this is your chance to develop your voice, your craft, and your confidence as a writer. Don’t miss it — get your application in! pentabus.co.uk/local-young-...

Michael Aspel (aged 92): ‘when I’m asked why I had such a long career on television I answer : because I was bland’. Acceptance and self knowledge of the old.

Anyone know why Box Hill, novel that’s the source of film Pillion, is out of print ? I’d expected a movie tie in cover or at least a reprint ? It seems to make no sense but there must be a reason. In the absence of Box Hill I read Adam Mars Jones earlier Monopolies of Loss -what an excellent writer

Lovely to be invited to talk at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw

{PR Gifted ticket} Beauty and the Beast: a Horny Love Story at #charingcrosstheatre is a generous injection of vitality and absolute filth. #panto #theatre #theatrereview See our ★★★★☆ review here: www.operationlivetheatre.com/post/beauty-...

This ain't a drill - Lab applications are open 🎉 Our 10-week Saturday Labs programme is back this October feat. the creme de la creme running courses in ★ Comedy Lab: Character ★ Comedy Lab: Stand Up ★ Comedy Lab: Plus ★ Cabaret & Drag Lab Apply by 7 Sep - hit the link below buff.ly/BHf2bxf

★★★★★ Review: Jeezus! – A Queer Latinx Musical – Razor-sharp musical comedy exploring the clash between queerness and the Catholic church 👇

TTD is a course of 8 improvisation workshops for women, non-binary and trans people who are actors, improvisors, writers, drag kings, dancers, designers, directors and theatre-makers at all levels of experience led by Creative Facilitator Angela Clerkin. Applications open now: buff.ly/DhyAhpg

Treated myself to a lunchtime screening of The Naked Gun. Not quite giddy silliness but plenty of laughs. Well worth a watch.

Serious shits and giggles and lots of belly laughs at our final rehearsal today. Come to our show tomorrow at the Museum of Comedy !

Serious shits and giggles and lots of belly laughs at our final rehearsal today. Come to our show tomorrow at the Museum of Comedy !

Tomorrow at 7pm and 8.30pm we’re sharing the results of my latest comedy workshop. Come on down to the Musuem of Comedy and laugh your bits off! Book using link. Many thanks museumofcomedy.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

@papatangotc.bsky.social @freelancersmake.bsky.social @markravenhill.bsky.social pls could you give this a share? Thank you x

Talking to a friend’s partner and she says: I teach bottom sex. Me: yay ! Good for you ! As she talks more, I realise she’d said ‘bottom sets’.

Sad to hear of the death of Claus Peymann who welcomed me into the Berliner Ensemble and championrd my work there www.berliner-ensemble.de/trauer-um-cl...

Friends ive been leading a workshop for actors creating comedy characters . Come see the joyful insane results. Book using link. Thank you . museumofcomedy.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Friends ive been leading a workshop for actors creating comedy characters . Come see the joyful insane results. Book using link. Thank you . museumofcomedy.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

If you fancy an hour of pure joy take a listen m.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKL...

If you fancy an hour of pure joy take a listen m.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKL...

@CamdenFringe.bsky.social #Interview: Georgia Polly-Taylor's HOT MESS "It turns out that when making a show that requires a toilet, having a builder for a father is a real leg up." 3/4 August @LandUTheatre.bsky.social #theatre #fringe #comedy #theatresky everything-theatre.co.uk/2025/07/inte...

Hugely pleasurable performance last night from Berlin’s Ramba Zamba - a parody/tribute/subversion of a kitsch German show with yodelling, slapping and songs for the Heimat rambazamba-theater.de/en/spielplan...

Lush ! Long glass, plenty of ice, small glass worth of port, fill rest of glass with tonic water, sprig of rosemary. I’m calling it : the drink of summer 2025

International Playwrights Workshop with Mark Ravenhill qendra.org/en/call-for-... @markravenhill.bsky.social

I can’t believe it’s taken me so long but today I finally saw Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. Only ticket left was in front row of Kino Babylon 2 so I was pressed up against the screen, neck craned. But still wow wow wow ! Will be watching it again as soon as I can - but many rows back !

Thrilled to discover this work today www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

Babe wake up, applications for the 503Five are open!! 🎉 We are so excited to be reopening submissions for our 2026-27 writer's residency, and to begin this new journey with FIVE talented writers who are eager to take their career to the next level.

My comprehensive school in the early 1980s was very proud of its ‘language lab’. Did the fashion pass and if so when !

Looking forward to this. A discussion followed by a screening of Jarman’s Caravaggio fashionandcinema.com/events/life-...

What’s the most essential quality/skill (do you think) an actor needs ? (no snark please!)

Flashback: sitting in the school dentist’s chair (yes they used to send dentists into state schools !) Dentist: who’s that on your badge ? Me: Debbie Harry. Dentist: oo do you fancy her? Me: no I want to be her. Dentist silent for rest of session!!

📣 Pencils out, pals - our Writer’s Lab applications are now OPEN! ✍️ Our 9-month programme is designed to take you from first idea to finished script, with the tools, structure, and support to get you there - oh, and help you feel good doing it. (psst, more below)

Nice person asked me yesterday ‘how do you feel about all the competition as a playwright?’. I surprised myself by saying ‘I don’t think about competitors. I just do my own thing’. Probably sounds a bit smug but I realised that’s my honest feeling.

I was lucky to see a preview of @josephmillson.bsky.social new film. Spare, elegant, aching. A small, fierce miracle of a film. Watch out for it when it’s released. Not my review below but it catches the essence www.nerdly.co.uk/2025/05/05/s...

My one day workshops for actots are now up on the website runatitshouting.co.uk/events/

My one day workshops for actots are now up on the website runatitshouting.co.uk/events/

Tonight it’s all about dance ! Rather them than me in this heat. Tbh rather them than me always !

Binge watched all of this last night. Couldnt look away. What times we’ve seen www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Update on our recent Commedia marathon. Have a read ! broadwaybaby.com/features/the...

Cos the news doesn’t cover it: 5% cut to Department of Culture, Media and Sport. Disappointing.