17 Mar 2020
William Shatner
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
Tom Hodgkins
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
2020 Here I Come!
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
Politics and Theatre
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
Horrible Histories
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
A Big Day for Tom
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
Filming Tom Gates
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
07 Jan 2019
Tom Gates
I am coming to the end of the busiest four years of my life – but I’m not quite there. We’re into our second week of rehearsals for TOM GATES... read more
19 Sep 2018
John Harrison
It seems I love people on the extreme end of the age-scale. I love children – and I love old people. Indeed I’ve always enjoyed the company of older people.... read more
26 Aug 2018
Accidents Do Happen
It’s not often you get the chance to perform in two West End theatres on the same day. I’ve been acting in Barmy Britain, with the incomparable Anthony Spargo, at... read more