Hell’s Bells
Released 2012
I wrote this piece for The Sunday Times as Hell’s Bells opened in Edinburgh: In the middle of August, I’ll be going up to Edinburgh to see my own play, Hell’s Bells, at the Pleasance Attic, and it’s going to be quite weird. A small, dark performance space will be focused,…
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The Proceedings of that Night
Released 2011
Early in 2011, the designer/director Simon Scullion approached me about staging my short story The Proceedings of that Night, a postmodern-ish kind of ghost story that had been first broadcast on Radio 4 eight years earlier. My initial reaction was that it wouldn’t work (I have terrific instincts in such…
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Freshwater
Released 2009
Virginia Woolf wrote two versions of a play called Freshwater, for home entertainment. It was finally staged in Vanessa Bell’s London studio in 1935. In 2009, at the Charleston Festival, we had a starry “gala” reading of the play as adapted by me, with an astonishing cast, including the entire…
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