Mike Bradwell – who died earlier this month at the age of 77 – left an indelible mark on British theatre. During his long and illustrious career as a theatre director, he founded, worked with and ran a variety of leading companies and venues, and gave early chances to many young playwrights who have gone … Continue reading ‘We shall never see his like again’ – a tribute to Mike Bradwell
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Edinburgh Fringe Report 2015 Part 2: The Final Reckoning
The Edinburgh Fringe is over for another year, but how did our intrepid amateur companies get on performing plays licensed by Nick Hern Books? We hear from three of them as they recount the highs – and the lows – of mounting a production on the Fringe. (If you missed the first instalment, it's available … Continue reading Edinburgh Fringe Report 2015 Part 2: The Final Reckoning
Girls centre stage: Lucy Kerbel on building a new canon of writing for young actors
Good roles for young female actors are in short supply, so Tonic Theatre set out to change that by commissioning a series of new plays with mainly or entirely female casts for schools and youth theatre groups to perform. As the first three plays in the Platform series are published by Nick Hern Books and … Continue reading Girls centre stage: Lucy Kerbel on building a new canon of writing for young actors
Sandi Toksvig: Why I Wrote Bully Boy
As her play, Bully Boy, opens at the all-new St. James Theatre in London, Sandi Toksvig explains how her own sense of rage led her to write about the impact of a contemporary military occupation on the mental health of serving soldiers... For someone who thinks of themselves as a pacifist I have written a … Continue reading Sandi Toksvig: Why I Wrote Bully Boy
LAGAN: Writing Northern Ireland – by Stacey Gregg
Stacey Gregg is a Belfast-born playwright whose new play – Lagan – marks her UK debut, premiering tonight at Ovalhouse, South London. A kaleidoscope of stories from post-Troubles Belfast, Lagan is an intimate and absorbing portrait of a city with a past like no other. Stacey reveals her desire to 'write' her hometown... Lagan sprang … Continue reading LAGAN: Writing Northern Ireland – by Stacey Gregg
WE ARE THREE SISTERS: with author Blake Morrison
Poet, playwright and novelist Blake Morrison grew up in striking distance from Haworth, the village once home to the Brontë family, and describes his latest play for Northern Broadsides, We are Three Sisters, as 'a kind of homecoming'. Here he explains the enjoyment of dramatising the Brontë's lives, lifting the gloom and misery so often … Continue reading WE ARE THREE SISTERS: with author Blake Morrison
THE GOD OF SOHO Special: with director Raz Shaw
In part two of our special feature on The God of Soho, director Raz Shaw tells us what it was like bringing Chris Hannan's wild and raucous script to life for Shakespeare's Globe. You have previously directed productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet for the Shakespeare's Globe, but this is your first … Continue reading THE GOD OF SOHO Special: with director Raz Shaw
THE GOD OF SOHO Special: with author Chris Hannan
Chris Hannan's new play for Shakespeare's Globe, The God of Soho, is a wickedly funny morality tale for the modern world. Sexy, feisty and real, it is a story about love at its dirtiest, maddest and most bittersweet. Here, the author talks about writing the play specifically for the Globe's unique stage. When the Artistic … Continue reading THE GOD OF SOHO Special: with author Chris Hannan
The Prompt Book 