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.
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.
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 w...
Very successful first performance in St. Mary in the Castle, Hastings.on Sunday 27th. Congratulations to the whole team!
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 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 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...
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.
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...
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...
Working with the hugely talented Kinny Gardner on the script of the latest Krazy Kat show Rapunzel. Details of the tour can be found on the Krazy Kat website.
All four of my dramatisations are being broadcast on Radio 4 Extra and are all still available for listening. My personal favourite THE LITTLE SISTER goes out tonight (15th September) and is available for 30 days afterwards.
A thumbs-up on Radio 3's Record Review from Jeremy Sams for the cd of the two Debussy EA Poe operas, where he says he "absolutely adored" Devil in the Belfry.
Here's the link. The review begins at 02.20.
Radio 4 Extra are also repeating my two plays about Raymond Chandler in Hollywood.
with Patrick Stewart as Chandler and Adrian Scarborough as Billy Wilder is heard first at 11.15 am and 9.15 pm on Monday 22nd August. Then on i Player.
Again with Patrick as...
PIGLAW, a play of mine about a mediaeval town which put a pig on trial for murder is being repeated on Radio 4 Extra. Based on an authentic case, it stars Tony Robinson and Christian Rodska.