RHYS AP WILLIAM stars in Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage, Robin Soans’ new play about gay Welsh rugby icon Gareth “Alfie” Thomas. He took time out from technical rehearsals to answer a few questions. Tell us about the show? It’s a story about a rugby man and his home town. A roller coaster. I play Baz, Alfie’s dad, and Gareth […]
17 Feb 2015
Our 5-star play about gay rugby icon Gareth Thomas, Crouch Touch Pause Engage, is about to reach London for a limited run. We asked Matthew Todd, editor of the UK’s best-selling gay magazine Attitude, to take a look at the recent history of gay men in sport. Back in the late summer of 2009 I took a phone […]
05 Feb 2015
See this show for £6. Use the code OOJ when booking. Performances at Greenwich Theatre on 9, 12 or 14 July Book tickets. Max Stafford-Clark and writer Stella Feehily are working with students from LAMDA drama school on their final year show – a major rewriting of the “lost” restoration comedy Love and a Bottle […]
02 Jul 2014
We asked the cast of This May Hurt A Bit: Why is this play important? Stephanie Cole I’ve had a lot of contact with the NHS over the last few years – my husband dying of cancer, my mother of strokes, my brother has schizophrenia; so I’m very much aware that all is not well. […]
28 Feb 2014
Ciphers is inspired, in part, by the “spy in the bag” case from 2010. It’s a play about the kind of people who work in secret intelligence – the kind of people drawn to that kind of work, and their unknowability. But also, about the way we are all, in a way unknowable. Here are […]
23 Sep 2013
Recently we hosted a 5-day workshop, giving writers an opportunity to learn new techniques for devising theatre. Isabel Quinzaños reports: Over a few days in August, a group of budding writers, performers and directors got together at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford to produce a script about both the Pitt Rivers and Ashmolean museums. […]
04 Sep 2013
