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
Pitcairn‘s director, Max Stafford-Clark, likes to use improvisation to help actors immerse themselves in their characters and situations. But he doesn’t usually put himself in the firing line… Here’s actor Jack Tarlton’s rehearsal blog. Being a True and most Accurate account by Jack Tarlton of the Treacherous and Convoluted Rebellion onboard Out of Joint It […]
15 Aug 2014
Pitcairn is about Fletcher Christian’s attempt to build a new kind of society on a remote island – a society of equals with his fellow Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian lovers and followers. Here are some other Utopias: other attempts to start afresh, not by changing society from within but by carving out new lives in […]
06 Aug 2014
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
Award-winning actress Stephanie Cole is much-loved for roles in Waiting for God, Tenko, Doc Martin, Open All Hours and most recently Coronation Street, as well as West End shows including Blythe Spirit and Noises Off. Here she talks about This May Hurt A Bit, our new comedy-drama about the NHS.
07 Apr 2014
The incidental music in This May Hurt A Bit has been specially composed by Charlotte Hatherley. Charlotte has released three albums in her own name, was a member of rock band Ash for many years and more recently has played guitar on tour for Bat for Lashes and KT Tunstall. She also DJs. Here she […]
07 Apr 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
Hywel Morgan plays NHS founder Nye Bevan in This May Hurt A Bit. Here’s his personal rehearsal journey. ‘Aneurin Bevan?, Architect of the NHS and my political hero?! I’ll bite your arm off.’ That was what I told my agent before I’d even read Stella Feehilly’s script for ‘This May Hurt A Bit’. Despite having […]
27 Feb 2014
On Friday 17 January, to celebrate the launch of his book Journal of the Plague Year, Out of Joint’s founder and director Max Stafford-Clark was interviewed on stage at the Royal Court Theatre by Chris Campbell, the theatre’s literary manager. The event included an extract from the book read by the brilliant actor Danny Webb, […]
23 Jan 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
