Guest Blog: Mark Ravenhill On Turning Life Into Art With 'Angela'March 23, 2021Mark Ravenhill has written such era-defining plays as Shopping and F***ing, Mother Clap's Molly House, and The Cane, and has now turned the pandemic to advantage to pen Angela, his most autobiographical play to date. Telling of his late mum, who died in 2019 age 84, the audioplay stars Pam Ferris in the title role alongside Toby Jones as the author's dad and Joseph Millson as Mark himself. The playwright sets this especially personal piece of writing in context below.
Guest Blog: Amir El-Masry On Self-Indentity and Hanging With MENA Arts UKMarch 4, 2021The Friday Hangout talk series at the Arab British Centre is back in partnership with MENA Arts UK, the organisation of arts professionals from the Middle East, North Africa and surrounding areas who have been gathering on an informal basis to discuss their work and answer live questions from the public. Guests this year have included the filmmaker Sally El Hosaini and playwright Abi Zakaria; the British Egyptian actor Amir El-Masry is up next and sets his appearance in context below.
Guest Blog: RYAN METCALFE Talks Romeo And JulietFebruary 5, 2021With Romeo & Juliet, starring Emily Redpath and Dear Evan Hansen Olivier Award-winner Sam Tutty, we set out to produce a piece of work that broke through the ceiling of creativity one finds at present with technologically limited readings of plays via Zoom and similar mediums.