MORE FROM SMITH SCRIPTS

Just published online by Smith Scripts, the stage versions of my two pieces about Raymond Chandler in Hollywood - Double Jeopardy and Strangers on a Film. Plus the text of my ground-breaking comedy about love, lust and older gay men, Told Look Younger.

Details here.

PRAISE FOR THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE

Generous praise from award-winning writer and historian, Anton Gill:

I think THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE is brilliant. You manage to recreate a period style without being heavy handed about it at all, and the characters emerge fully 3D through a difficult technical process perfectly suited to your subject. I'd never dare try to do a novel in the form of diaries, memoirs etc but you're a master of it. Thank you!

And thank you, Anton.

SMITH SCRIPTS

The splendid Smith Scripts website has now published two of my stage plays: Tales the Countess Told and The Speculator, my adaptation of Balzac's only comedy. Details can found here.

BRIAN DESMOND HURST

Many years ago I worked with the legendary Irish film director Brian Desmond Hurst  on his memoirs. Plans are now well advanced to get these memoirs into print as part of a lavish new illustrated volume about Brian's films prepared by Brian's great nephew Allan Elser Smith and his daughter Caitlin. More as publication gets closer

CUTAWAY COMICS

First announcement of the first slate of Cutaway Comics including Paradise Found inspired by Paradise Towers.

There's also an article by Matt Charlton in the latest edition of Dr Who Magazine about the Cutaway launch with some comments from me.

IF IT'S BAROQUE

Had great fun writing the screenplay for IF IT'S BAROQUE, DON'T FIX IT, a lockdown romp for all my chums at the Weaver Dance Company. Currently in production, with Matt Devitt as director and Evelyn Nallen in charge of music, it's loosely based on Handel's Agrippina and offers among others things a lovely dance duet between Chiara Vinci in Hastings and Romain Arreghini in Paris plus a bedroom farce scene shot in multiple bedrooms.

PARADISE TOWERS

Plans are proceeding apace for the comic book based on the characters of Paradise Towers. See the upcoming issue of Dr Who Magazine. Good wishes to writer Sean Mason and publisher Gareth Kavanagh in this new venture.

PRAISE FOR THE PSYCHIC CIRCUS

"If you are a fan of Stephen Wyatt and the Greatest Show in the Galaxy this is a simple treat." Great review from The Doctor Who Big Blue Box Podcast.

PRAISE FOR THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE

A splendid new review of The World and His Wife on Amazon (Verified Purchase no less):
"This is one of the funniest books I've read in a long time: an account of the savage and very public marital battle between two giant Victorian egos, "Sir Niggardly Liar" and his wife Rosina, a room-silencing Irish beauty. Wyatt's credentials as an historian are impeccable: we are at ease in his world, and both divo and diva speak to us in compelling tones. At the same time, he lets loose his considerable and wicked imagination on the ill-matched pair. It would make a stunning two hander, or even an opera. I'm about to read it again."

THE PSYCHIC CIRCUS

A great review in Dr Who Magazine: "The Psychic Circus serves not only as a thrilling story in its own right, but also a joyous celebration of Sylvester McCoy's entire tenure."