THE SHADOW OF DORIAN GRAY

THE SHADOW OF DORIAN GRAY by Stephen Wyatt

The story of John Gray, the man who was Dorian Gray

with Blake Ritson, Nicolas Farrell and Joshua McGuire

Directed by Abigail le Fleming

Afternoon Drama BBC Radio 4 Tuesday 26^th May at 2.15 pm and subsequently on BBC iPlayer

PRIX MARULIC

Delighted to say that our Radio 4 production of Dante's The Divine Comedy: Inferno, took 3rd prize in the drama category of the Prix Marulic in Croatia last night.

Update on Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 10:42PM by Stephen Wyatt

Turns out they got it wrong. We actually came second. See entry for June 3rd!

TOLD LOOK YOUNGER: PHOTO SHOOT

We met up with our talented cast on Monday 11th for the photo shoot. The photographer was Simon Annand author of that marvellous book of backstage theatre The Half. Very much looking forward to the results. And to starting rehearsals on Monday.

THE SHADOW OF DORIAN GRAY

Yesterday I received the final edit of my Afternoon Drama about John Gray, the model for Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray. Very pleased with how it's sounding. It's a great cast in a very atmospheric production from Abigail le Fleming.

It's broadcasting on Radio 4 at 2.15 pm on Tuesday 26th May so please listen in!

MATTRESS, MATTRESS

Just finished my work as Dramaturge on Krazy Kat's latest show Mattress,Mattress, a very Scottish version of The Princess and the Pea. A pleasure as always to work with Kinny and the team and it's going to be another great show.

Details of performances and how to book on KK's website.

TOLD LOOK YOUNGER: FUNDING

Wonderful news! The Arts Council of England has approved a grant for the production of TOLD LOOK YOUNGER. All systems go!

TOLD LOOK YOUNGER: CASTING

A really excellent cast for TOLD LOOK YOUNGER now in place - Michael Garner (Jeremy), Robin Hooper (Oliver) and Christopher Hunter (Colin) with Simon Haines playing the Waiter(s). Very much looking forward to rehearsals!

TOLD LOOK YOUNGER: DOCUMENTARY

Our associated documentary is now available online about stories of older gay men, featuring members from Opening Doors London (ODL):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMMcBA7ZsC8

PARADISE TOWERS: DR WHO

Thank you, Philip Sandifer. Someone understands.

"Tat Wood, in About Time, notes that it is the first story in some time to have no references to previous stories. This is a telling detail that explains at least part of why the story is unloved. The fact of the matter is that Doctor Who has, for several years now, been catering primarily to an audience of fans. Fandom is an exceedingly middle class practice, based as it is on a surplus of leisure time and the disposable income to fritter away on Dapol action figures, Target novelizations, trips to conventions, and other such commercial product. This fact is largely responsible for the maddening sociopathy of mainstream science fiction fandom - it's a self-selected group of reasonably affluent people focused on capitalist production. They are myopic by design. A story about modernism and council estates is, in other words, utterly removed from anything that a fan in the Ian Levine model would ever care about. And to be frank, large numbers of people who talk about Paradise Towers simply don't seem remotely aware the larger literary tradition it fits into. They treat it as a naff runaround with silly concepts. And this inevitably makes it look like a much, much weaker story than it is. Which is fine - Tat Wood's observation of the way in which it breaks from past stories by not catering to fans is telling. This isn't a Doctor Who story for Doctor Who fans. It's a Doctor Who story for the British public - an attempt to think of Doctor Who as an alternative to Coronation Street (which, of course, it was in the McCoy era - directly so).

TOLD LOOK YOUNGER

The crowd-funding page is up and running. Please take a look.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1844659833/told-look-younger-at-jermyn-street-theatre