Starters 3 is now out and completes the set of Starters, which between them cover work on 13 practitioners and 5 theatre styles. Each Starter is £40 or there’s a Starters Bundle where you can buy all three Starters and get £20 off – £100 instead of £120! The aim is to introduce the main …
Stepping Stones is the title of my new book of poetry which I’m very excited about. I’ve written poetry since I was twelve years old and my school set a competition – which I won! From that moment I had the poetry bug, helped by my English Teacher mentor who advised me, told me to …
Just as you think nothing is happening – all submissions of Creation and Destruction [the novel about the gods] are sitting there mouldering. Three publishers have said they like it so far and have the whole manuscript but nothing more for a while… my new drama resources have been very slow starters and bought by …
Always my problem – I have too many projects going on at the same time, round which I have to fit living, breathing, having time for people and family and walking the dog. The latter at least means that I have half an eye on breathtaking nature, the water birds on my next-door reservoir and …
Must do more blogs! That’s one of my New Year resolutions… I always feel a shaft of joy to greet a new year, no idea why since mostly things just settle into the usual rhythms: writing [too many things at once, usually, which means slow work on them all and divided time – not really …
In 2005, when Dramaworks was already flourishing with my own practical resources, I decided to start housing plays too. I commissioned teachers in schools, youth groups and others known to me to write plays suitable for young people. I rejected many and only kept the best. Then I signed on with Nielsen, the depository for …
On my new site Drama Teaching Resources for Schools there are some new resources. There is ‘Exploring Theatre: Stanislavski’ a great big Stanislavski file, which I wrote during lock-down, which is more complete and expansive than any previous ones. It also uses completely new exercises for each component of the System. Whether you already have …
The Dramaworks site is no more but I have retained the plays written by myself and other teacher/writers and put them on a new site called Drama Teaching Resources For Schools. The plays have always been popular though I am aware that some were written a while ago. For that reason I am busily writing …
It’s been a long time since I’ve put anything up on this site, mea culpa. The closing down of Dramaworks and the last weeks of trading as much as I can were all consuming. Out of the window has been anything resembling a novel, though I am part way through a number and will return …
With Digital Theatre still wavering over whether to allow me to carry on trading for a while, I’m opening the new site for drama teaching resources sooner rather than later to be on the safe side. It’s called Drama Teaching Resources for Schools. I decided it was better to open this site now to get …