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

04 May 2017

Thirty years ago while training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School I took part in a poetry reading for an old people’s club near Bath. I drove home that... read more

07 Apr 2016

If Isis came to your city and asked you to tell them where the treasure was buried under pain of death, would you disobey? Khaled al-Asaad was head of antiquities... read more

04 Apr 2016

So I listen to the Today programme every morning, read a broadsheet most days, watch C4 News and Newsnight most evenings and when it comes to reaching a decision about... read more

12 Aug 2015

I have been filled with horror at the experience Benedict Cumberbatch is going through in Hamlet. The reason someone filming you is so disturbing is not just because of the... read more