27 Mar 2020

The weather this week has been so glorious I have taken to watching the sunset each evening, and I realised tonight that I am experiencing a little death. It is... read more

26 Mar 2020

It feels like an age since we were rehearsing Horrible Histories but if I look through my diary it really is just a week. There have been two hugely important... read more

22 Mar 2020

Captain’s Log, Stardate 16 March 2020. That’s where I was when theatre time stopped. Watching William Shatner on stage in Hammersmith at probably the only show left in London. It... read more

17 Mar 2020

So on the day when everything went wrong, and all the theatres closed, I sat amongst two thousand people to listen to William Shatner in probably the only venue left... read more

07 Mar 2020

Sitting here tonight thinking of my dear friend Tom Hodgkins, an actor I met thirty-five years ago at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School who very sadly died last year,... read more

22 Feb 2020

I’ve just come to the end of the busiest five years of my life. It started in 2015 with five world premieres within twelve months and continued unabated with another... read more

20 Feb 2020

How we saved The Old Rep Theatre For twenty-three years our home was The Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham. The theatre is owned by a property developer and leased by... read more

04 Feb 2019

It’s our fourteenth year producing Horrible Histories shows live on stage and it’s fun to think how much they’ve become part of BSC life. They started in 2005 and now... read more

31 Jan 2019

I’m sitting here in the rehearsal room about to do a run of Tom Gates in front of the author Liz Pichon, her agent at David Higham, her publisher Scholastic,... read more

16 Jan 2019

The author of Tom Gates came into rehearsals today for her first peek at what we’ve been up to. It’s fabulous to have the creator Liz Pichon sitting in the... read more