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  • Our First Broadsheet Review

    And it’s a good’un, too. Today’s Times has a short review in the Arts section for Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales. “My three-year-old […] also enjoyed the low-theatre approach of Red Table Theatre’s retelling of some of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales (three stars, at the Pleasance, N1 – and strictly speaking for ages four […]

  • A Christmas that’s Just So

    And the last theatrical Christmas announcement this year (unless someone is putting on a production of mine in secret somewhere and hasn’t told me about it) is that Red Table’s production of The Just So Stories, as seen at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, is going to be touring to St Albans this Christmas. Here are […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Open Book Theatre

    My little theatre company made the front page of The Stage this week. For those of you too far from a newsagent to pick up a copy for yourself, or who live in the future where paper is considered a barbaric relic of our savage past, you can also read the article online. As you’ll […]

  • Review: The Just So Stories

    Hope you had a lovely Christmas Day. Mine was full of Christmas Pudding and Turkey and Family and Wine, and was generally all-round lovely. I just discovered a review of The Just So Stories in the Hampstead and Highgate Express. You can read it via the Internets using The Ham and High e-edition. It’s in […]

  • 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 […]