Offbeat Directing 1: The Vision Quest This series is not the definitive ‘How to Direct a Play’ guide – I wouldn’t presume to be anywhere close to that (not even sure what it might look like). This is how I direct a show and I… Read More »The Vision Quest
I have a lot of old, broken jewellery. I collect it from various places – including my own modest collection of things I never wear (most of it to be honest). Then, one day whilst browsing in a local charity shop I found a rather… Read More »The Candelabra Affair
Confession: I HATE scene changes. That moment when everything comes to a standstill, the magic disappears, the lights go dim and people in black clothes start whooshing around the stage moving bits of the set on and off. I hate it even more if the tabs… Read More »Elegant Scene Changes
When you finally decide you really, really do have to sell your costumes…It’s been a blast lovely costumes of mine. I’ve loved assigning you all roles and putting you on the stage. Or sometimes, you just got to languish for years on a rail …… Read More »Vintage costume clear out
This is what happens when you leave an old bowler lying around the workshop in close proximity to a pile of felt, some feathers, a few buttons, odd trimmings, braid and glue … One might almost think that it had been carefully staged. The bowler… Read More »A collision in felt