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

07 Jan 2019

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

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

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

18 Jul 2018

Our first ever show got off to a tough start. The marketing company I had hired to publicise our production of Terence Rattigan’s While the Sun Shines had failed to... read more

29 May 2018

Events sometimes conspire to create a memorable show. We were three scenes away from finishing an open-air production of Horrible Histories at Hampton Court Palace when the power went off... read more

03 Aug 2017

I will either never forget this week or struggle to remember anything. On Tuesday night we officially opened David Walliams’ GANGSTA GRANNY at the Garrick with David in the audience... read more