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Posted onMarch 4, 2017January 31, 2021Writing

The screenplay format – when pointless obsession takes hold

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I can’t bear widows. They are the bane of my life. Not the black-clad in-mourning type, but the single-word-on-a-line type. They have the power to…

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Posted onMarch 1, 2017January 30, 2021Writing

The terror of the first 10 pages

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I’ve just started rewriting a thriller – and I’m feeling the pressure of the first 10 pages more than ever. Perhaps it’s because this script…

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Posted onJanuary 31, 2017January 31, 2021Stage

Kill your darlings live – changing dialogue in rehearsal

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Pegasus Opera Company recently staged a part-performance of the opera I wrote – Let The Music In – in Brixton for an invited audience. The…

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Posted onJanuary 23, 2017February 16, 2021Writing

Helen Duncan – the greatest true story never brought to screen?

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How many writers can be working on the same story at the same time? About 7,643 it turns out. Imagine a story that brings together…

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Posted onJanuary 9, 2017January 31, 2021Stage

Pegasus Opera Company: Unpacked and Reloaded

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I was very proud to be part of Pegasus Opera’s Unpacked and Reloaded event last year (where has the time gone?!) Pegasus is the UK’s leading…

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Posted onDecember 29, 2016November 24, 2020Film and TV

Widows: can Steve McQueen transfer one of the UK’s best-ever crime dramas successfully to film?

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I can’t help myself. I’ve started watching it again. I’m currently on my twenty-somethingth viewing of Lynda La Plante’s Widows – a six-part TV drama I’ve been…

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Posted onDecember 5, 2016November 24, 2020Stage

Off The Wall Players’ Saturday Soup – drama exploring food and relationships

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Last night I saw Saturday Soup – a collection of short plays by Off The Wall Players – a small emerging theatre company based in…

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Posted onNovember 26, 2016November 24, 2020Stage

‘Draguation’ at the Soho Theatre with Finger In The Pie cabaret

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It’s Tuesday, so it must be a drag-graduation (draguation if you prefer) at the Soho Theatre. This is the third piece of drag theatre I’ve seen…

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Posted onNovember 16, 2016February 16, 2021Film and TV

Delaying Kilgrave: The trouble with Jessica Jones’ antagonist

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I’ve just finished watching Jessica Jones on Netflix, and while I loved the set-up and the world of the story, my feelings on Kilgrave as…

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