The hour approacheth when the traps are opened to release our three hounds of hell into the world, and the actors' thoughts turn to the most important and pressing aspect of an official opening: what gifts to buy for one's colleagues' first night. At a time  of...

So, goodbye, Alford House Youth Club, Vauxhall. It's been emotional. (Yes, this is where we've been rehearsing for the last eight weeks but we've had to keep this a secret lest we be besieged by ravening members of Robbie Sheehan's fan base.) And hello, Rose...

  What follows is a dramatisation (very) loosely based on real events during rehearsals by members of the Wars of the Roses company for the play, Edward IV, on Friday afternoon, 21st August, 2015. King Henry & court have removed themselves north following an...

So, the Wars of the Roses: an interminable generational feud that leads to the collapse of government, the slaughter of innocents, bloodthirsty warlords, foreign intervention, an extremist insurrection and mass beheadings. I blame Tony Blair. How the hell did we...

The Boy celebrated his second birthday earlier this week. And today, Sunday, we were out celebrating with him on a picnic rug with friends & family in Dulwich Park. He spent the day collapsing onto Tupperware, smearing strawberries over his face, and stumbling...

Due to the delayed nature of this blog, it's necessary for me to go back & intermittently view various periods of rehearsal in retrospect, alongside more current day-to-day musings. I'm approaching all this as a scrapbook, a collection of snapshots of the whole...

Welcome to my blog of Trevor Nunn's theatrical spectacular, Wars of the Roses, Peter Hall's & John Barton's legendary reworking of Shakespeare's tetralogy, which goes on at the Rose in Kingston in September. We're right in the thick of rehearsals now - and this...