The dust had scarcely settled from David Cameron’s successful attempt to blow up Britain, when I started receiving puzzled enquiries from theatre-goers attending my short play THE ACCIDENTAL LEADER.

Is laughing at politics a catalyst for change – or a substitute? With A View From Islington North about to open in the West End, we asked three brilliant satirists about the relationship between comedy and politics. JONATHAN LYNN co-wrote Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. He wrote and directed Clue and Nuns on the […]

Meet the cast of A View from Islington North, our forthcoming West End show featuring imaginative, provocative and hilarious political plays from some of the country’s finest writers. The company includes Bruce Alexander A Touch of Frost, Love and Marriage, Out of Joint’s Ciphers Sarah Alexander Smack the Pony, Coupling, Armstrong and Miller Ann Mitchell […]

You can’t see the steam train that comes to a halt, hissing and clanking, in the middle of the auditorium during All That Fall – theatre-goers are blindfolded throughout. But you’d swear it was there, thanks to Dyfan Jones’ nine-directional sound design. Beckett’s radio play tells the story of a woman’s arduous journey to a […]

Out of Joint is bringing Max Stafford-Clark’s in-the-dark staging of Samuel Beckett’s radio play All That Fall  into the West End for just 5 weeks from 13 April, following sell-out performances in London and Bristol. He talks about why the play appeals to him more than Beckett’s better known work – and his love of […]

One of Samuel Beckett’s most acclaimed and accessible plays, All That Fall is also one of his least known. The writer’s friend and biographer Jim Knowlson explains why – and why it is “too good, too funny and too moving” to be left on the shelf. When Beckett’s first radio play was broadcast in 1957, […]

Out of Joint is presenting a rare live production of Samuel Beckett’s radio play All That Fall, in which theatre-goers will be blindfolded, the actors moving about the auditorium. One of Beckett’s most naturalistic plays, it is inspired by his native Foxrock in Ireland. We asked cast members about their first experience of Beckett.     BRÍD […]

Our production Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern was to tour to the theatre at Ipswich High School for Girls, as part of a 2-week collaboration with Eastern Angles in which we take the show to small venues around East Anglia and Essex. This is part of a wider tour that takes in more conventional […]

Why were women so vulnerable to being accused of witchcraft? By 1712, when our play Jane Wenham: Witch of Walkern is set, the most intense period of witch hunting was over, although still within living memory. During the height of the hunts somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 people were tried and of those 50,000 to […]

Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern is set in a Hertfordshire village in 1712. Here are some of  designer James Button‘s costume illustrations, with a few notes about the characters and costume decisions. Click on an image to expand it.