Introduce yourself with 5 productions you’ve seen:

Scapino, starring Jim Dale, Young Vic, late 1960s
Nicholas Nickleby (over a day) RSC, 1980
The Mysteries, Cottesloe, 1980s
Road by Jim Cartwright, Royal Court, 1986
The Wars of the Roses (over a week), ESC, New Theatre, Cardiff, 1988

I've always liked the ideas of having a 'f*ck it' list, of things that you're sure you never want to do before you die.

Terry Gilliam's version of Watchmen

... and he phoned me between performances of Lord of the Rings at Drury Lane (he was Gandalf, natch) to give me advice on how best to manage the hump (sew it into a t-shirt). I only ever met him once in person, but he changed my life many times. If he is dead, hail and farewell. (3/3)

When I was auditioning, if I noticed his name on a actor's CV, I'd ask what he was like to work with. In seventeen years of directing on the London fringe, I never heard a single negative response. When I was directing Richard III, at Catford, a mutual friend passed my number to him.. (2/3)

I had the same problem with my project about 3-foot tall vampires. They all said the stakes were too low.

Not so much a fess, more a life hack

University education shouldn't have anything to do with preparing students for the workplace.

(Originally wrote ' a guy' instead of 'a fellow', but realised that might be confusing festivals)

IIRC, there is one short story set just after the birth of the couple's first child.

David Cottis reviews Half Trick’s 2024 production of Antonio’s Revenge, dir. Courtney Bassett.

🎭: halftrick.com#antonio

📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

📷: Eliza Roberts

Maybe there were both - belt and braces. I'm pretty sure we're talking about the same Channel Four screening. IIRC, it was part of a series of British comedies called something like 'Beyond Ealing'.

I remember it slightly differently; I recall a male and female voice over the closing credits of the first film that went something like:

Male: You mean that's it?
Female: No, darling, that's just the supporting feature. The Meaning of Life will be along in a bit.

I recall that after this, Tony Blackburn said 'I won't take it personally.' and my sister, who I was watching it with, said 'Why shouldn't you?'

Sad to hear that - they should have learned about the intentional fallacy in their first week at Uni.