Playwright. Off-West End nominated. Back at it. The Me Plays · In/Out (A Feeling) · The We Plays · HE(ART). New play in development.
Joined February 2009
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Internal notice.
After roughly a decade on extended leave, I am returning to my role as a playwright.
No action is required from you at this time. Further information will be shared in due course.
Thank you for your continued patience.
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December 2015. At my desk in the office, holding up the poster for my own play.
In/Out (A Feeling) at @TheHopeTheatre, January 2016, directed by @niallpxx.
Office job by day, playwright by night. Some things never change....
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Andrew Maddock retweeted
I think a lot about this scene in 24 Hour Party People where a homeless guy talks about Boethius and the Wheel of Fortune; it's contrived for the film, I know, but it represents something lost now; the strand of working-class intellectualism, where poor men were proud of going to the library and learning for learning's sake, Rita studying her bewks, Plays For Today, a time when references to ancient philosophy could be freely inserted into popular media without commissioners quashing them under the patronising assumption that 'ordinary people might not get it'; instead of the crab-mentality false consciousness instilled during the 00s and 10s - the Shameless On C4, Benefits Britain, Footie And Love Island Middle Aisle of B&M coding - where intellectual aspirations are seen as stupid and unbefitting of one's caste. Mutabiliteh is are Tragedeh but it's also are Ope.
Throwback to The We Plays at @TheHopeTheatre, September 2016. John Seaward stars as Me.
It was odd to see another actor carry on the work I wrote for myself, but I couldn't think of anyone better to do it!
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I remember my first ever interview...
I came out of Old Street and I walked up these Streets, I can't remember the company, they sold wine, it wasn't for me, I was terrible. Brylcream hair and an oversized suit. 1999!!!
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Tech for The Me Plays, September 2014. Set design by the amazing @charlieaustin19.
I was very nervous, and the light in this photo perfectly captures someone about to perform two 50 minute monologues in verse....
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Sunday question for theatre folk!!
Best play you've seen this year that came in under an hour?
Recommendations very welcome. Short is a skill....
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August 2017. Olympilads at Theatre N16 in Balham, directed by @niallpxx.
It started life at the London Theatre Games in 2012 and won Audience Choice twice.
"An emotional gut-punch," said View from the Gods. I'll take that!!
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Halloween costume inspo from the archive.
September 2016, two days before The We Plays opened at @TheHopeTheatre. Just a standard day picking up a throne in a Zipcar van.
What a life!!
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HE(ART) at Theatre N16 in Balham, January 2017. A gallery, a heart condition, two Wembley Warriors and one painting everyone wanted.
Still so proud of this one. Huge love to @niallpxx, @jackgogarty, @snoone_1, @alexrey1302 and Flora Dawson.
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Always written on my phone. Best way to get ideas out before they disappear.
Been away so long the writing software wanted an expensive upgrade, so I built my own. Works for me, does exactly what I need.
Writers: how are you writing these days?
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January 2016: In/Out (A Feeling) at @TheHopeTheatre.
Born as a ten minute response to Transport Theatre's Elegy at @Theatre503.
Proud of the response, and we raised money for @UnseenUK.
"a striking, breathless evocation of lives spinning out of control" (The Stage)
Question for writers and theatre folk!!
What's the worst bit of corporate speak you've ever heard said out loud, completely in earnest?
Asking for a play....
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Throwback to 2014. The Me Plays.
Me, a hospital gown and absolutely zero dignity.
It got Off-West End nominated and The Public Reviews called me "a talent to be watched". Still chuffed about that.
Ten years on, I'm finally back at the desk. Watch this space (hopefully)....
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Alex Reynolds was in my play In/Out (A Feeling) years ago. Now look at her!
Caught In the Land of Eagles at @tbtlake in Keswick. Her debut play, which she wrote AND performs solo.
Amazing show. An absolute gut punch of an ending.
See it on tour!! Chuffed for you @alexrey1302
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Throwback. Years ago @niallpxx found The Me Plays in a bookshop, priced at £2, and bought it.
Niall is a director I collaborated with a lot, and he now runs @LONESOMEWORKS.
Some colleagues give you notes. The best ones conduct an independent valuation.
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Andrew Maddock retweeted
Remember the freakout when a supercomputer beat the best chess player in the world and everyone declared the game over, and then everyone forgot about it (and chess-playing computers) and chess became more popular than ever and a hit Netflix show?
Man vs. machine is fleetingly interesting but machine vs. machine is boring and pointless: nobody cares about interacting machines because there’s no human soul in the mix with emotions and moral agency. It’s just slop squared.
The only machine chatter anyone will care about (and then only indirectly) will be that between agents booking your flights, buying your groceries, etc. And it’ll be about as interesting as TCP/IP to most people.
AI actually puts the focus on the human more, not less.
Using Claude Code for the first time. I'm a complete novice, used to code HTML for fun in 99/00.
This is unbelievable, its like someone just put magic into my computer.
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THIS - When these sh'ithouse MPs are talking about homes, they're talking about Drywalled tiny boxes, stacked high, most of them now-a-days build to rent so you can't even own them...
We're being completely sold down the river.
Lady in blue, "And homes. Let's be honest. Most of the time we're talking about flats"
"We're not talking about houses where people can grow into"
"I see families in these tiny little flats who feel so happy they own their own home but they haven't got room to enjoy their home"
"Are we actually going to build houses for people to live in and enjoy. Are they going to be affordable?"
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