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Another chance to hear -
STRANGERS ON A FILM
By Stephen Wyatt
With PATRICK STEWART as Raymond Chandler and CLIVE SWIFT as Alfred Hitchcock
Directed by Claire Grove
BBC Radio 4 Friday 9th May at 2.15 pm
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September 25th 2014 has been chosen as the date for the unveiling of the Blue Plaque for Fabian Ware, founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission) and the central figure in my play MEMORIALS TO THE MISSING. Final details have yet to be settled but I'm de...
Just spent the day in rehearsal with Kinny and the Krazy Kat team working on their new version of Midsummer Night's Dream. Wonderful to see the puppets coming to life in the actors' hands. Imaginative design as always from Chris de Wilde.It's going to be good.
Details of performances can be found...
Moira Petty praises our "Glorious adaptation" in The Stage.
Another very favourable review in The Financial Times from somebody who clearly knows his Dante. Here's a slightly abridged version of what he had to say.
Pick of the Weekend: Martin Hoyle
Stephen Wyatt’s dramatisation of Dante’s Inferno grabs us by the hand in Radio 4’s ebullient producti...
Another nice review from Kate Chisholm in The Spectator. The review is in the second part of the article.
Very nice review in The Radio Times:
THE DIVINE COMEDY
It’s a brave writer who dares to take on Dante’s epic three-part poem The Divine Comedy. Playwright Stephen Wyatt, who has steered a radical course with this version, follows in the footsteps of Henry Wadswort...
Krazy Kat's version of Midsummer Night's Dream goes into rehearsal in early April.
As always, very much looking forward to working with the company.
Details of performances are on the Krazy Kat website. Here's a link to the performances at Emporium in Brighton.
Update: Krazy Kat has been g...
THE DIVINE COMEDY by DANTE ALIGHIERI
Dramatised by STEPHEN WYATT
With BLAKE RITSON, JOHN HURT, DAVID WARNER and HATTIE MORAHAN
Directed by MARC BEEBY and EMMA HARDING
Episode One: INFERNO
Sunday 30th March 3 pm BBC Radio 4
Episode Two: PURGATORIO
Sunday 6th April 3 pm BBC Ra...
There a short piece from me about working with Claire together with an extract from our radio drama book available now on the BBC Writers Room blog .
Here's a link to a recording of the Gottingen performance of The Devil in the Belfry, Rob Orledge's completion of Debussy's short opera based on Poe's story with a libretto by Stephen Wyatt.
See also the post for 3rd December 2013.
Classic Chandler with Toby Stephens as Philip Marlowe, produced by Claire Grove, directed by Claire, Mary Peate and Sasha Yevtushenko and dramatised by Robin Brooks and Stephen Wyatt is being repeated on BBC Radio 4 on the following Saturdays at 2.30 pm -
The Big Sleep – 15th Feb (Robin/Claire)...
My producers, Marc Beeby and Emma Harding, have assembled a wonderful cast for my dramatisation of Dante's The Divine Comedy for Radio 4. It's headed by John Hurt, David Warner, Blake Ritson and Hattie Morahan. The first day of recording was today and I'm delighted with how things are turning out. T...