Light bulb moment

Twenty-one years ago, I was living in the beautiful city of Edinburgh, in a shared flat opposite The Gateway Theatre on Elm Row.  My mother had thought I was going to study English Literature in Glasgow and I was never quite sure whether she genuinely didn’t have a clue where I was off to for

Respect

I’ve spent too many unhappy hours in ambulances, A&E and chaotic admission wards with family recently (old and young) not to notice the utter disaster in the NHS over recent months and years. Crisis is the new normal. Throughout, I’ve been awestruck by the dogged professionalism of the staff – paramedics, nurses, doctors, and all

Claiming the land

Having been happily raised in a council house in the 1970s, I never really understood the British obsession with home ownership until I began to rent rooms from private landlords in the late 1980s. I lost count of the number of houses and flats I moved in and out of across Nottingham and Plymouth (including

Beyond Christmas

‘I’ve bought my husband a ticket to your show – for Christmas!’ exclaims the nicest woman in South Birmingham (although I’m wondering now if her husband would agree…) Our show is someone’s Christmas present, or at least a part of someone’s Christmas present… er, no pressure then… I guess this is just another unforeseen circumstance that

Meet our cast!

We’re delighted to announce our talented cast for BOLDtext’s upcoming show, Uncommon Wealth, at The REP 8pm Wednesday 24th January. Joining our company once again is the wonderful Tyrone Huggins who has more than 90 stage productions to his credit, including Mademoiselle F by our very own Vanessa Oakes last year (The Belgrade), as well

Fair shares?

“The fact is the British public know that the consensus isn’t working. Lord Ashcroft’s poll on the state we’re in … revealed that 72% of people in Britain agree that Britain is broken, people are getting poorer, nothing seems to work. We need big changes to the way the country is run….” I couldn’t agree more.

Wealth of Talent

BOLDtext are delighted to announce that Naomi Coleman will be joining our creative team to direct Uncommon Wealth at Birmingham Rep on Wednesday January 24th 8pm. Naomi is a theatre director and dramaturg from Stourbridge, having originally trained as an actor at QMUC, Edinburgh.  In 2018 she was appointed Associate Director at Artrix (Oleanna, After the

Back at The REP!

BOLDtext Playwrights are ‘in the building’ at The REP again, after a pandemic-sized absence, to share some of our brand new scripts.  We haven’t been slacking, we’ve been busy presenting site-specific shows such as Power of Invention at Soho House and Gem of a Place around the Jewellery Quarter, breathing life into the stories of

The Curse of the First Draft

That moment when you’ve finished your first draft is magical. All that work has finally paid off. You’ve finished. Your first draft contains everything you wanted to say. You are proud of it. Then you remember, it’s only the end of the beginning. There’s loads more work to do. You can’t become too attached to

Time goes

As we move into autumn with its lovely oranges, reds and browns, I have tendency to look back over the past months and wonder how quickly the year went and how short the summer was. Like it was ever any longer, or the weather any better. Were the summers hotter and longer in my childhood?