JASON MORELL AHEAD OF DYLAN THOMAS IN FITZROVIA: WE ARE ALL POETRY ADDICTS
A successful stage and screen career well under his belt, actor Jason Morell temporarily stepped behind the metaphorical curtain to devote himself to a different kind of endeavour: a celebration of Dylan Thomas, one hundred years after his birth. The result is Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia, a week-long festival taking over the neighbourhood where the poet “drank, lived and loved” and transforming it into London’s central spot for all things Thomas.
Growing communities, not audiences: Stella Duffy & Sarah-Jane Rawlings open the doors to Fun Palaces
A few yards away from the centre of British politics: Jamie Lloyd on Trafalgar Transformed
Now in its second season Trafalgar Transformed does what it says on the tin (or the poster as the case may be). It’s a long-term mission to turn Trafalgar Studios, once a not too popular West End venue ‘where touring productions went to die’ into a theatre with a repertoire that responds to the world around it, rather than blissfully ignoring it.
IN DIALOGUE WITH THE AUDIENCE: INTERVIEW WITH JULIA SAMUELS, DIRECTOR OF TALES FROM THE MP3
Have a look around on your way to and from work: young London professionals and young Londoners don’t often go hand in hand (pun intended), living instead in parallel but divided realms of the metropolis. With mortgages to consider, paydays to count to and additions to plan – does anyone even remember what happens on the other side of the early to mid 20s?