Here’s where we share a bit more about what we’re up to, and open up our creative process.
A week at Trowbridge Town Hall
First published on the Trowbridge Town Hall website Last week my theatre company – Foolish Hope – was lucky enough to spend a week in residence at Trowbridge Town Hall. We were developing a new comedy called Shakespeare’s Son! (sort of). Set during the early years of the English Civil War, the show is inspired…
Q&A with writer Tom Mallaburn
You’ve written several plays about historical events, and were a founding member of the Fitzrovia Radio Hour – a highly successful homage to 1940s radio. What is it about the past that interests you so much as a writer? Ha! In a way, the past never dates – it always reflects the present in some…
Q&A with Dan March, actor, comedian and one of the co-creators of Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain
How did you start out as a performer? I always enjoyed performing as a child but it was when I was 15 that I knew I wanted to be an actor: I performed the ‘pivotal’ role of English Ambassador in my school’s production of Hamlet – essentially coming on at the end of the four-hour…
Q&A with Dr Samuel Fanous – Head of Publishing, Bodleian Library Publishing
You were responsible for re-publishing the Instructions pamphlet in 2005. How did you come across the original Instructions and why did you want to bring it to a modern audience? A curator in the Bodleian Library showed me the original document. I immediately realized what a brilliant little publication this is. In just under 5,000…
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