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  • Three (that’s the magic number)

    My. I have been busy. This Christmas, I have no less than three plays on in London. I’m producing The Just So Stories at The King’s Head Theatre. I wrote the adaptation of A Christmas Carol at the Lion & Unicorn. And on top of that, my new play The Strange Mésalliance of Arthur Munby […]

  • The Just So Stories

    That’s Pau Amma, The Crab That Played With The Sea, as drawn for us by Hannah Broadway. If you look closely, you can see that he is taller than the smoke of three volcanoes! Tickets are now on sale for The Just So Stories at the King’s Head Theatre from December 15 2010 through to […]

  • On Being a Professional

    So there’s this thing called Amazon Studios. They’ve got 2.7 million dollars, and they want to give it away to people who make films, including the writers of feature film scripts. Hooray! You might be thinking. At last, my chance to bypass the gatekeepers, get a little respect, earn money, and have my film made! […]

  • Red Table

    So I’ve set up a theatre company. This has been rumbling on for a while now. M’brother Rafe and myself have had several successful productions already individually – Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol for me, Dark Tales, Kitty and Damnation, and The Duchess of Padua for him – and we wanted to do some […]

  • Revivalism

    My stage version of A Christmas Carol is being revived this year by Giant Olive at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre. It opens on the 7th December 2010 and runs through to the 15th January 2011. They’re already taking advance bookings, and you can get your tickets here. You might want to book sooner rather […]

  • We want information. Information!

    M’brother Rafe and I are attempting to put on a play this Christmas. This will be the first production of our new theatre company. If we can make the figures work, it’ll be on in London as a late morning or early afternoon show in December/January this year. There are a lot of interesting things […]

  • Credit where it’s due

    Alex Vega has just been brought to the surface as I write these words. He’s the tenth man to have been raised from the mine where he and 32 others have been trapped almost 700 metres beneath the surface for the last 69 days. No-one has ever been trapped underground for so long before and […]

  • ABC, you and me…

    A challenge I received from Mister Stephen Gallagher for the more bookish among us. 1. Go through the alphabet, and for each letter, think of a book you’ve read that starts with that letter (A, An, and The do not count). 2. You must write down the FIRST book you think of for any given […]

  • Ooh. Look what I just found!

    A sketch show pilot that I worked on last year has made its way onto the Internet. Splendid. Splendid – The complete Sketch show! from Dan Turner on Vimeo.

  • Letters from America: Coffee Mermaid Slut

    a series of occasional emails sent from Los Angeles in the pastoriginally posted 18 may 2004— So there I was in Starbucks the other day, drinking my coffee and thinking about nothing in particular, when I happened to glance at the logo on my cup. It’s a woman, with long hair covering her breasts. She’s […]