23 October 2012
Paine’s Plough, the UK’s leading new writing company, is in Cheltenham on November 1st, as they seek to weave a theatrical tapestry of the UK. In towns across the country, Paine’s Plough have commissioned local playwrights to write…
16 October 2012
We’ve got preview copies of the anthology, and they look pretty sweet 🙂 The rest of the books are on their way, currently in a boat. I like to think that at this moment they’re somewhere near the…
7 March 2012
You are cordially invited to a performance of scripts in development at the Parabola Arts Centre this Friday (9th March). You will be treated to extracts from five plays (read script-in-hand), which have been written by third-year Dramatic…
27 February 2012
Playwrights from the University of Gloucestershire are inviting the public to staged readings of their work at The Parabola Arts Centre on Friday 9th March. Below, Claire Holland reports on their preparations: Last Friday, myself and my peers…
21 February 2012
Lucy Tyler reviews Alan Ayckbourn’s Neighbourhood Watch: a laugh-out-loud satire of a security-obsessed Britain, which will have special resonance for those theatre-goers young enough to remember when they were mistaken for Britain’s ‘feral youth’. When it comes to…
30 December 2011
It’s time to wish everyone a happy new year and to review Creative Writing at The University of Gloucestershire in 2011: we think it’s been a great year. COURSE NEWS The year started with the full-time appointment of…
29 November 2011
While prose (and some poetry) is primarily designed to be read on the page, plays are written to be performed. The best test of a play, therefore, is for it to be read by professional actors. As part…
9 September 2011
We’ve just started an audio section, and you can now hear three brilliant radio plays produced by three of our up and coming playwrights. Second year dramatic writing students at the University of Gloucestershire work with radio production…
11 July 2011
Belle Parricide, featuring University of Gloucestershire Creative Writing lecturer Lucy Tyler’s The Operators, has opened in Washington, DC to critical acclaim. The performance is comprised of five short plays that explore the historical figure of Beatrice Cenci (pictured),…