Neal's Posts Archive - Birmingham Stage

I am in London performing with one of the loveliest and most talented companies – the same group I’ve been performing with for three years each summer and here we... read more

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