Touring History

On a night in late February, Gareth Thomas – former captain of the Welsh rugby team and the most famous gay team sportsman in the world – took his family and friends to a theatre press night. He’s no stranger, now, to shiny showbiz events but this was special. The play being premiered was Crouch, […]

RHYS AP WILLIAM stars in Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage, Robin Soans’ new play about gay Welsh rugby icon Gareth “Alfie” Thomas. He took time out from technical rehearsals to answer a few questions. Tell us about the show? It’s a story about a rugby man and his home town. A roller coaster. I play Baz, Alfie’s dad, and Gareth […]

Our 5-star play about gay rugby icon Gareth Thomas, Crouch Touch Pause Engage, is about to reach London for a limited run. We asked Matthew Todd, editor of the UK’s best-selling gay magazine Attitude, to take a look at the recent history of gay men in sport. Back in the late summer of 2009 I took a phone […]

Pitcairn‘s director, Max Stafford-Clark, likes to use improvisation to help actors immerse themselves in their characters and situations. But he doesn’t usually put himself in the firing line… Here’s actor Jack Tarlton’s rehearsal blog.  Being a True and most Accurate account by Jack Tarlton of the Treacherous and Convoluted Rebellion onboard Out of Joint It […]

Pitcairn is about Fletcher Christian’s attempt to build a new kind of society on a remote island – a society of equals with his fellow Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian lovers and followers. Here are some other Utopias: other attempts to start afresh, not by changing society from within but by carving out new lives in […]

See this show for £6. Use the code OOJ when booking. Performances at Greenwich Theatre on 9, 12 or 14 July  Book tickets.   Max Stafford-Clark and writer Stella Feehily are working with students from LAMDA drama school on their final year show – a major rewriting of the “lost” restoration comedy Love and a Bottle […]

Award-winning actress Stephanie Cole is much-loved for roles in Waiting for God, Tenko, Doc Martin, Open All Hours and most recently Coronation Street, as well as West End shows including Blythe Spirit and Noises Off. Here she talks about This May Hurt A Bit, our new comedy-drama about the NHS.

The incidental music in This May Hurt A Bit has been specially composed by Charlotte Hatherley. Charlotte has released three albums in her own name, was a member of rock band Ash for many years and more recently has played guitar on tour for Bat for Lashes and KT Tunstall. She also DJs. Here she […]

We asked the cast of This May Hurt A Bit: Why is this play important?  Stephanie Cole I’ve had a lot of contact with the NHS over the last few years – my husband dying of cancer, my mother of strokes, my brother has schizophrenia; so I’m very much aware that all is not well. […]

Hywel Morgan plays NHS founder Nye Bevan in This May Hurt A Bit. Here’s his personal rehearsal journey. ‘Aneurin Bevan?, Architect of the NHS and my political hero?! I’ll bite your arm off.’ That was what I told my agent before I’d even read Stella Feehilly’s script for ‘This May Hurt A Bit’. Despite having […]