Monthly Archives: December 2013

Tom Wells’s The Kitchen Sink won him the 2012 award for most promising playwright. His latest play is set in a scruffy changing room for a gay five-a-side football team in Hull. They call themselves Barely Athletic and they are … Continue reading →

Dame Edna Everage is even more famous than her creator, Barry Humphries, who first appeared on the London stage in 1976. Now 79 he is making a farewell tour of Britain and such is his/her popularity that he/she has no … Continue reading →

You may well ask what is the point of a stage adaptation when Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film is readily available on DVD? The answer is that Craig Warner has adapted the novella by Patricia Highsmith on which the film is … Continue reading →

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise first appeared together on the music hall stage in 1941 and went on to become the most popular double act on British television. Their 1977 Christmas show was watched by 28,835,000 viewers, which was more … Continue reading →

American playwright Sarah Ruhl writes about female sexuality in the 1880’s when electric therapy was the very latest thing for women and also men, who were suffering from hysteria. The vibrator was invented by Joseph Mortimer Granville specifically to relieve … Continue reading →