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  • A Fairy Tale Christmas

    After taking The Just So Stories to the Edinburgh Festival this year, where we made a profit… (I’ll just let you take a moment to let that sink in. We made a profit. At Edinburgh. Yes, our shows really are that good.) …I’m pleased to be able to say that tickets are now on sale […]

  • A hundred little things

    I’m typing this on a MacBook Pro. It used to belong to my housemate, and now it’s mine. It makes my life better. My previous desktop computer was my first Mac – one of the early Mac minis – and is so old that it can’t play video from YouTube any more, and hasn’t been […]

  • Translation Difficulties

    So Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie are no longer involved with the Transporter TV series. I think that’s a shame. I’m a fan of all of the Stargate series, and their scripts have always been among my favourites. Klaus Zimmermann, one of the producers on Transporter, credits Mallozzi and Mullie as having been showrunners and […]

  • Curtain Up

    Due to the magic of computers, this post will be published at exactly the same time as the audience are seated and the lights come up for The Just So Stories in Edinburgh. The show runs twice a day from today until the 29th August, with two days off on the 10th and 22nd. We’ve […]

  • When come back, do not bring pie.

    So m’learned colleague Natt has blogged about the recent fracas in the Commons Select Committee. For those who missed it, here’s what happened: Rupert and James Murdoch were answering to a Commons Select Committee about what was known by them about phone hacking at the News of the World, and the possibility of a cover […]

  • The Storyteller General

    We’ve got an exciting new event from Red Table this coming Saturday as The Storyteller General will be telling tales to children in the snuggle pit at the Pleasance Islington’s Big Day Out. Tickets are available now, or buy them on the day.

  • Open Book Theatre

    M’brother Rafe and I will be talking at RADA next Saturday (9th July) about Open Book Theatre. The event’s being held under the auspices of the Directors Guild of Great Britain, with support from the Mackintosh Foundation. I believe that DGGB members get first dibs on the tickets, but that any spare ones will be […]

  • The Just So Stories at the Edinburgh Festival

    It’s my absolute pleasure to be able to tell you two things. Firstly, that Red Table made a profit on our recent production of The Just So Stories at the Pleasance Theatre this Easter. A Fringe Theatre show? Not losing money? Inconceivable! As it turns out, when you’re involving actors and crew using the Open […]

  • Tuppence a bag

    If you look over to the right there (NB – this may not work if you are reading this in the future and the post has been piped telepathically into your brain), you’ll see there’s a link to a screenwriting forum. It’s called Feed the Birds, and is designed to be a helpful resource for […]

  • The Permission Scream.

    I’m finally surfacing again after doing a full-time job at the same time as producing The Just So Stories for the last couple of months. There’ll be a full update about me-me-me shortly, but in the meantime, why not feast your eyes upon the new trailer for upcoming British horror flick Stormhouse: Stormhouse is written […]