Tuesday
Oct162012

PICK YOURSELF UP - UPDATE

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch archive for Pick Yourself Up   - reviews, photos, cast - now available again.

Copies of the script and further information about Pick Yourself Up also available from my agents, Valerie Hoskins Associates.

Saturday
Oct132012

LOOKING GLASS

We go into studio at the end of October with my adaptation of ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS which is planned as a Radio 4 Christmas special. Julian Rhind Tutt is going to play Lewis Carroll which is excellent news!

Tuesday
Oct022012

STRANGERS ON A FILM

I've noticed a number of hits looking for information about my Chandler / Hitchcock radio play, STRANGERS ON A FILM. Inspired, I guess, by the BFI's big Hitchcock season.

Should anybody be interested, I've prepared a stage version of STRANGERS in a double bill with DOUBLE JEOPARDY, my Chandler / Wilder piece.

Enquiries about this can be made to my agents, Valerie Hoskins Associates.

Wednesday
Sep262012

BIG DIPPER

Very excited to have signed a contract today with Endeavour Press to publish my gay thriller BIG DIPPER as an e-book.

Sunday
Aug052012

GREATEST SHOW DVD OUT

Despite my reservations (see below), the team have done their usual thorough job on the dvd reissue and I'm delighted the Victoria Wood parody is thrown in.

Overall Greatest Show is proving once again considerably more popular with fans than Paradise Towers (hard for it to be less popular) and once again I hope there are new viewers out there who'll approach it with a fresh mind and enjoy it.

This is my favourite review so far from Amazon:

"I am a long-standing Doctor Who fan, but this story (together with 'Delta & the Bannermen') is absolute and complete twaddle that is an embarrassment to the illustrious history of the programme. Terrible scripts, awful story - it would make a poor attempt at a pantomime.Even the production quality is dire, with terribly unbalanced sound and over-bearing incidental music.It needs to be locked in a time loop.

I only bought it to maintain a full collection."

This has attracted a supportive comment:

"I couldn't agree with you more, as I mentioned in my previous reviews both the Colin Baker and Slyvester McCoy eras where a load of rubbish. I saw two episode of this so-called drival at a so-called friend's house, and said what a load of rubbish and it was."

P.S. Stephen's new novel BIG DIPPER has just been published by Endeavour Press.

 

Sunday
May062012

WRITERS GUILD PODCAST

 

Darren Rapier has interviewed has Stephen about his work in a podcast available through the Writers Guild of Great Britain website.

Thursday
May032012

GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY DVD

The DVD of Greatest Show in the Galaxy is due for release on 30th July.

Stephen will be attending a Tenth Planet signing on 18th August alongside some of the cast.

 

Thursday
Apr192012

SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A RADIO PLAY?

My lovely BBC radio producer Claire Grove and I have just reached an agreement with Nick Hern Books to write a book (it's part of a series) called SO YOU WANT TO WRITE A RADIO PLAY?

Very much looking forward to working with Claire and Nick. We're due to deliver our manuscript early next year.

Update - the book will be published on 5th December 2013.

Thursday
Apr192012

THE PIED PIPER

Just been into rehearsals for the new Krazy Kat show THE PIED PIPER in my role as dramaturg to the company. The puppets are fantastic and the show promises to be well up to KK's usual very high standards.

Details of the show's run can be found on

http://www.krazykattheatre.co.uk/shows_pied.html

 

Monday
Apr162012

THE STANDARD BEARER IN SAN FRANCISCO

Neil and Julian are giving two performances of STANDARD BEARER at the Royce Gallery - Theater in San Francisco on April 20th and 21st.

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/239746