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Stiletto opens in the spring!

After three years of creating the book for this amazing show, Stiletto finally had its press launch yesterday. We open in the Spring of...

Sintenis:the inspiration for a new play

This is Renée Sintenis with her fox terrier in 1926. Renée was a sculptor, medallist and graphic artist who worked in Berlin in the...

Coming last in Eurovision

Måneskin lifting the trophy aloft, May 2021. I've been following the Eurovision Song Contest since 1966. I've written about it in auto...

Failure – a Masterclass

The Guardian’s podcast newsletter, which drops into my inbox every Saturday morning, recently alerted me to an interesting sounding new...

Killing Lines

The play Killing Lines was commissioned by the Arts Council after I had an idea for a play set amongst the farming community in Cornwall....

Adapting Victorian novels for the stage

The picture is of Marianne Oldham as Anne in Kate Saxon's production of my stage version of Persuasion, Salisbury Playhouse, 2012. My...

'More or less king' – a novel

The painting shows Europe's origin story. The Goddess Europa was carried by a bull (Zeus in disguise) from Libya to Crete where - an...