A man lies very still in a hospital bed. Two angels in miniskirts and high-heeled boots with feathered wings walk about the stage. A man at a desk scribbles nonsense on a pad with an enormous pen. A woman in a ballgown sits in a chair and twitches. Another woman stands holding two canes that…
There’s a BBC Radio 4 programme called “I’ve Never Seen Star Wars” where celebrities tell presenter Marcus Brigstocke (currently starring as Barnum at The Menier), about the things they’ve surprisingly never done. Well I’m not a celebrity but if invited on, I could tell Marcus that in the thirty plus years it’s been around, I’ve…
Queen Anne, a new play from Helen Edmundson tells the story of the relationship between the Queen and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough from the time Anne becomes Queen on the death of William III in 1702 to the point when that relationship ends. It encompasses Anne’s political alliance with the Speaker of the Commons,…
I was once taken out to dinner at a well-known restaurant in London. The menu was a work of art with each item described in gushing, descriptive prose going into minute detail about the ingredients and the way it was cooked. By the time I had finished reading it, my taste buds were tingling and…
Somewhere in Toronto, Deborah Shaun-Hastings is fussing about the place settings for a dinner party she’s having that night. She can’t decide whether to have napkin rings or not and husband Michael isn’t helping much. Deborah and Michael both seem nervous and tense as they await their guests and Deborah makes sure all six places…
It’s around Christmas sometime in the 1990s and somewhere on Staten Island in New York, sharing a small, two-bedroom apartment are friends Alex and Terry. Buck has been staying over as he’s having an affair with Alex whilst Terry has a big crush on Buck. Alex however, is in a long-term relationship with Matt who’s…
