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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Doubt (Part 2) – Episode 8 – Reading Plays

    We conclude our discussion of JP Shanley’s classic play, doubt. Download: Episode 8 – Doubt (Part 2) ‘Reading Plays‘ is a discussion show, featuring Gareth Stack and James Van De Waal. Each week we do a close reading of a modern play, discussing it’s merits, themes, issues raised, and so on. You can play along… Read more

  • Reading Plays – Interview – Cast of ‘Welcome to the Ethics Committee’

    We interview the cast of the recent Smock Alley production of ‘Welcome to the Ethics Committee’. The play was based on the collaborative fiction project, The SCP Foundation, and was written and directed by Katherine Farmar. We spoke to some members of the cast – Elitsa Dimova, Libby Russell, Jack Beglin, Liam Hallahan, and Declan… Read more

  • Doubt (Part 1) – Episode 7 – Reading Plays

    In the introduction to his already classic play ‘Doubt: A Parable’, JP Shanley writes ‘we are living in a culture of extreme advocacy, of confrontation, of judgment, and of verdict’. In the decade since the publication of the play, as the culture wars have expanded, his words have seemed ever more prescient. Doubt is a… Read more

  • Arcadia – Episode 6 – Reading Plays

    The titular Arcadia is Sidley Park, Estate of the earl of Croom. We enter Sidley park at the dawn of the 19th century, and today, as two parallel storylines converge to resolve a literary mystery. Arcadia is a Wildely brilliant farce, which examines the spirit of an age and it’s relationship to time, the mathematics… Read more

  • Electrafied

    For Christmas, one year in college, I received the Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Inevitably, I spent a few months infatuated with Plath’s maudlin hyperlyricism. Few writers can make self absorption as compelling; Kerouac maybe, JT LeRoy (were he not fictional). There’s something hypnotic about Plath’s verse, drawn from a well of caustic freudian melodrama,… Read more

  • The Cheap and Easy Guide to making and releasing a Podcast, 2014 edition

    Podcasts are internet radio shows. Anyone with a computer can make one and publish it to a potentially enormous audience, for less than 100 dollars / euros a year. After a decade releasing podcasts, here’s the simplest, cheapest and most flexible way I’ve found to distribute one. It’s not free but it’s inexpensive. Podcasting can… Read more