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

Wednesday
Apr042012

THE DEVIL IN LONDON

Robert Orledge and I are giving a talk about our work on completing Debussy's one act opera THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY at an international symposium about Debussy at Gresham College, London on Friday 13th April.

This follows the successful premiere of the work in Montreal in February. We will be playing extracts from a recording of one of the performances.

Thursday
Feb092012

GERONTIUS PUBLISHED

The script of GERONTIUS has now been published and may be bought through Lulu.com by following this link -

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/gerontius/18879384

Monday
Jan302012

TINNISWOOD AWARD FOR GERONTIUS

At the BBC Audio Drama Awards on Sunday 29th January, my play Gerontius about Cardinal Newman won the Tinniswood Award for best original drama script broadcast in 2010. This is the second time I have won this award and I feel very honoured.

The judges wrote that the script has "remarkable spiritual depth - sadly all too rare in contemporary drama - and a consistent subtlety of writing that displays both a sure grasp of how dialogue can bring out character and an effortless ease in moving from one type of discourse to another, from this world to the next... Wyatt has already won one Tinniswood Award and we had no doubt that the outstanding fluidity and intelligence of Gerontius, the haunting near-perfection of it, could warrant a second."

Gerontius is being repeated on Radio on Wednesday 8th February at 2.15 pm. A published version of the text is now available.

Link to report in Clare College Newsletter -

http://www.clarealumni.com/s/845/1col.aspx?sid=845&gid=1&pgid=252&cid=2221&ecid=2221&crid=0&calpgid=15&calcid=778

 

Wednesday
Jan182012

BONNIE READS PARADISE TOWERS

AudioGo will be releasing Bonnie Langford's reading of the novel version of PARADISE TOWERS on June 12th 2012.

Thursday
Dec152011

GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY

Just learned that the documentary in the upcoming DVD of my Who story GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY will be about  the asbestos crisis which affected its production. Since the commentary sessions were also very much centred on the production time, it means the accompanying material will be almost entirely about the nuts and bolts of the production, not its imaginative centre.

This is particularly a pity as I actually still have the various outlines for GREATEST SHOW as it was developed over quite a long period of time, a very rare event I gather in the history of Dr Who. So naturally I feel both for me - and for Dr Who fans - an opportunity has been missed.