Coming to a village hall near you. Click here for tour dates and venues.

I may have been a bit dull recently, here's why.

Some new shows coming up. More details in the future section of the website. Theatre du Prisme will also be presenting a new play in reading at Prise Direct, Lille (Oct 2019).

Last year I had the chance to work a new idea with the students at LAMDA. It has been epic and I love the play that has resulted from this. The River and the Mountain. Strange, troubling and I think funny. It will get it's test drive at LAMDA in June 2019; an opportunity to explore a big play with 11 performers.

Where The Woods looked inwards to some extent, then The River and the Mountain looks out, to the cosmos, to see if there's a place beyond, authentic and untouched.

Ticket are here.

I think this show is lovely. And I'm proud that it's returned to Leeds Playhouse, a truly brilliant place to make work. Playing till 16th February 2019.

The Woods finished its run a month or so ago and now there is a page all about it on the website with some lovely production shots by Manuel Harlan.

In other news I went to Ireland and directed this lovely show, written and performed by Paul Curley.

More info and tickets here.

Kes will be playing at The Brockley Jack from 2nd-19th May 2018. Details here.

...and you find out where you should've begun.

Try and remember this as I'm sweating away on the final few scenes of a script that's way, way, way too long. I just have to get there. Find out where I'm going, then the joy of knowing where I should've begun. Getting to cut everything away.

I like not entirely knowing where a character will take me. This one took me up a mountain in Norway. I wasn't expecting that. But when I've got there I have to go back and find that first footstep which led them there. It's always there, somewhere. That's why you don't have to panic, just look properly and trust yourself a little bit.

Naughty, messy writer.