This year is the 800th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, and I’m thrilled that I’ll be working with Artistic director of The Point, Eastleigh, Owen Calvert-Lyons, on a new play about the Southampton Plot (the attempt to kill Henry V prior to the battle of Agincourt). Production in July 2015!

Really delighted that I’ll be working with brilliant director Maggie Norris, brilliant writer Andy Day, and the brilliant The Big House theatre company on a new play coming soon! Very very soon in fact… watch this space.

I’m writing a play about Joan Littlewood and her relationship with Theatre Workshop. I was keeping it a secret for a bit, but there’s not much sense in that. Who wants to make it happen?

My 2012 radio play, The British Club, a murder mystery set in Bangladesh, featuring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Samantha Bond, and the late Paul Bhattacharjee, was rebroadcast on Radio 4 yesterday, and you can catch it on listen again here for the next six days.

We had a wonderful reading of my play about Bangladesh, MAD BEES RIOT IN THE LIGHT, at the Soho theatre, last week. The cast were:

Rachel – Imogen Butler-Cole
Carol – Suzanne Bertish
Sanjan – Richard Sumitro
Jhorna / Young Anjali – Chandni Mistry
Amina/Ms Huq/Hashi – Pooja Ghai
Edward/Neil – Barnaby Kay
Barman/Postmaster – Gary Pillai
Anjali – Arinda Alexander

The director was Tim Stark.

We’re nearly cast for our workshop of my play about Bangladesh, MAD BEES RIOT IN THE LIGHT. The workshop will take place at the Soho Theatre. It is being directed by Tim Stark from B29 Productions and co-produced by Imogen Butler-Cole from The What Works.

I can’t wait to see the play come alive.

I’ve just been made a fellow of the Royal Literary Fund! Next year I’ll be in residence at The University of Greenwich, working with students across the university on their writing. Very exciting.

With all the renewed interest in Electronic Patient Records, thought it worth reposting a link to my 2010 play for Y Touring, BREATHING COUNTRY. You can listen to the ‘radio play’ version online. It was developed in association with many of the key players on all sides of the debate and I hope a sane and human response to the (unexpectedly fascinating) issues involved.

In association with Knowledge Stream/Digital October, we did a workshop on Stunted Trees and Stunted Bridges to a live audience in Moscow… from a basement room in Kings Cross.

The stream is available here.