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.
MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE By Graham Greene
Dramatised for radio by Stephen Wyatt
With Bernard Cribbins and Philip Jackson. Directed by Marc Beeby
Ten episodes for Fifteen Minute Theatre on BBC Radio 4
August 8th to August 12th and August 15th to August 19th
10.45 am repeated at 19.45 pm....
Oblomov starring the great comedy team of Toby Jones and Trevor Peacock directed by Claire Grove is back on Radio 4 Extra
Today BBC Radio 4 Extra has just started a series of repeats of the ten SKETCHES BY BOX dramatisations I did back in the late 90s. The first is The Tuggses at Ramsgate and it's available for another 29 days.
They all have wonderful casts and sparkling direction by Sally Avens. One of my fav...
My Christmas special dramatisation of ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS is currently available again on Radio 4 Extra.
Rob Orledge's reconstructions of Debussy's two Poe operas is now available on cd. I wrote the libretto for The Devil in the Belfry.
Lynn Bayley has written a very informed and appreciative review which is available on her website.
A lovely week in studio with Monsignor Quixote directed by Marc Beeby and starring Bernard Cribbins and Philip Jackson. Bernard, aged 87, was an inspiration to us all with his energy and professionalism. He even spotted typos in the scripts which Marc and I had missed. The dramatisation will be on R...
Looking forward to working with Kinny Gardner and Krazy Kat theatre on a new version of The Very Magic Flute, the work with which I began my role as KK dramaturg over ten years ago.
The course ended on 9th April with a very successful day in the Pier Productions studios in Brighton. The participants had extracts from their plays recorded with a group of very talented actors under the masterly direction of the one and only Martin Jenkins.