Neal's Posts Archive - Birmingham Stage

It doesn’t get better

Sometimes a great company of actors and stage/sound/wardrobe come along which makes you feel utterly privileged to part of – and to our great good fortune we’ve had two come... read more

This isn’t a typical entry for this blog, but I would like to publicly express my long held disgust and deep distrust of Ed Miliband. I’ve not expressed it before... read more

I didn’t know what to expect from Syria, but after performing Twelfth Night in Damascus in 2010, I stayed on to tour the country and fell completely in love with... read more

Looking back at a few posts, I realise they have been hugely nostalgic! So it’s probably no surprise that I am massively enjoying Tim West’s autobiography from 2001. Tim writes... read more

Peter O’Toole

Much as I love acting, it’s rare that I feel proud to belong to the acting profession, because it’s so often such a strange and brutal industry. But occasionally you... read more

Never mind Two Gentlemen of Verona – how about Two Nights of Theatre. I saw The Lehman Trilogy last night – great play, great design, bitterly disappointing acting – all... read more

It’s funny how things surprise you. We’re performing Awful Auntie in Birmingham this week at The Alexandra Theatre, just a stone’s throw from The Old Rep where the BSC was... read more

I went to see a show today that required a member of the audience to read out the last two pages of the play and I found myself yearning to... read more

Shortly before the actor Peter Finch died he said: “We all say we’re going to quit occasionally. I’d like to have been more adventurous in my career. But it’s a... read more

Driving to Nottingham each day last week to perform Awful Auntie was a special experience. Not only because the Theatre Royal is one of my favourite theatres on which I... read more