Writing
Sunday 22nd September at 8pm on R3: my version of Georg Kaiser’s Expressionist powder-keg, From Morning to Midnight, produced in collaboration with the excellent Almost Tangible. I translated, adapted and directed, so was able to stuff the cast with a fabulous list of friends, ex-students, colleagues… as well as a couple of voices new to me.
I’m delighted to be working with Andrew Day again. We have a commission for a 3 x 45′ drama for BBC Radio 4, which we’ll be working on this Autumn.
It’s a thriller about… I won’t say. But it will thrill.
90′ BBC R3
45′ BBC R4
90′ BBC R4
90′ BBC R4
90′ BBC R4
“Ambitious, clever and funny” ***** The Independent on Also Sprach Zarathustra
4 x 60′ BBC R4
Awarded Judges’ Commendation in Best Adaptation category, BBC Audio Drama Awards
“Write to the Director General. It’s that good” – David Aaronovitch in The Independent
“A genuinely astonishing piece of work” – Radio Times
5 x 15′ BBC R3
5 x 30′ BBC R4
Nominated, Best Audio Fiction, Prix Europa 2o23
The Power of Myth
I was commissioned by Cartier to create a piece of theatre, a two-hander, about the deep history of jewels and jewellery making, but also embracing elements of the founding myths of Cartier itself – in particular, the affair between Louis Cartier and its eventual Creative Director, Jeanne Toussaint. I was writing to a tight and very specific brief, intertwining several different story strands, for an audience I was not familiar with. The result went down well, was performed again in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés, and in 2023 I will be re-writing it for an audience outside Cartier.
Shakespeare, Where Are You?
This was a piece commissioned by the Globe and put together with Jamie Askill who I also directed in it. The idea was for a biographical piece, but facts about Shakespeare’s life are famously thin on the ground, so we had to be inventive. And theatrically daring, And use a lot of paper.
Bottom’s Dream
A collaboration between Shakespeare’s Globe and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The brief was to tell the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for young people, with the full orchestra playing interludes and involved in the action. All on the stage of the Royal Festival Hall. Puck bent a trumpet over her knee and the conductor was at the edge of his comfort zone. It was a blast.