The first half of 2023

What a strange interlude. Two days after my last post (6 months ago) I injured myself and had to finish the run in Stratford on crutches, albeit in some very natty new, orthopaedic boot-covering slacks! I’m better now, though the spring of the year was definitely a time to focus on healing. But I managed a really fun reading in Rochester, scenes from John Lyly’s Mother Bombie in Eastgate House; and then picked up a really nice telly job in the second series of Trigger Point for ITV/Hat Trick. In May I worked on a new project called Philosophy of the World with the amazing women of In Bed With My Brother, exploring the strange relationship between Austin Wiggin and his three daughters who he moulded (ie: forced) into being the cult group The Shaggs. 

 As summer approaches, so does the British Shakespeare Association conference in Liverpool and a round table discussion about Shakespeare and improvisation. This is the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio of course, and the autumn holds some fun gigs to come in Birmingham, Leeds and Aldeburgh!!