THE SHADOW OF DORIAN GRAY

My play The Shadow of Dorian Gray is going to be repeated on Friday 23rd June. A great cast - Blake Ritson, Nicholas Farrell and Josh McGuire - and excellent direction from Abigail le Fleming.

FINLANDIA

Radio 3 are repeating Finlandia, my play about Sibelius, on Sunday, 28th May at 9pm as a tribute to the much-missed Tim Pigott-Smith, who so sadly and unexpectedly died on 7th April.

THE LOVES OF VENUS AND MARS AT THE COURTAULD

Third performance of Mars and Venus at the Courtauld Gallery today. The room was packed and the dancers did wonders in the space available. They were deservedly given a very warm reception at the end. There's one more performance already booked for the Swaledale Festival in June but hopefully that won't be the end of the project.

Here's a link to photos of the event on the Weaver Dance Company Facebook page.

MARS AND VENUS IN HASTINGS

Very successful first performance in St. Mary in the Castle, Hastings.on Sunday 27th. Congratulations to the whole team!

THE STANDARD BEARER IN HOLLYWOOD

My monologue THE STANDARD BEARER is being performed by Neil Dickson on February 19, 2017 @ 6:00 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle Hollywood. Julian Sands again directs - and introduces the evening.

THE LOVES OF VENUS AND MARS AT THE COURTAULD

The Loves of Mars and Venus will be at the Courtauld Gallery on Sunday 5th March at 4 pm.

Here's a link to the Facebook page.

Evelyn Nallen writes:

Booking can’t be done at the Courtauld. People will have to pay to get into the Gallery and then what’s on (guided tours etc and us) is free. The seating will be on a first come basis. It is a lovely room (Room 6 I think) in a wonderful building but not a great theatre — but we’ll do our best!

And here's a link to the Weaver Dance Company webpage.

THE LOVES OF MARS AND VENUS

The first three public performances of The Loves of Venus and Mars have now been announced - February 26th in St Mary in the Castle, Hastings @ 6pm; March 2nd in the Fitzwilliam College Auditorium, Cambridge @ 8pm and March 5th at the Courtauld Gallery, the Strand, @ 4pm. See my November 23rd 2016 entry for details of the project.

Here's a link to the booking details for the first two gigs.

VANITY FAIR ON CD

My radio dramatisation of Vanity Fair has finally made it on to cd. You would be hard pressed to find my name mentioned on the box or in the publicity but at least it's out there at last.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY ON STAGE

Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler hated each other on sight and then sat down together to write the screenplay of DOUBLE INDEMNITY, the greatest film noir of all time. But then nothing is black and white in this tale except the movie itself...

Hedley England (producer) and Simone Vause (director) are keen to set up a stage production of my play Double Jeopardy and are hard at work finding suitable venues.

THE LOVES OF MARS AND VENUS

Just about to start work on the script for a fascinating project - the story of the first English ballet, The Loves of Venus and Mars, created by John Weaver in 1717. Very much looking forward to working with Evelyn Nallen (producer/composer), Jenny Miller (director), Chris de Wilde (designer)  and Moira Goff (Dance Historian) on this. First performances are planned in Hastings in late February 2017. More details later!