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A few years ago, while I was living and working in London, I wrote a short play for the Old Red Lion Theatre called ‘A is for Ali’. It was…
Nahda is an interesting beast in my zoo of plays because it is actually made up of four pre-existing short plays or ‘visions’ (three of which were performed elsewhere and…
So it’s no big secret that I started drinking only about 5 years ago. I have never been drunk (despite what Stephanie Fox might say – ahem) and am still…
Yesterday was perhaps one of the most frustrating days of my life. Finding my way around London, in the rain, with an umbrella that might as well have been made…
Jesus Pastie Eating Christ….getting settled is taking longer than expected. I have built so many pieces of furniture in the last few days. I don’t want to see a screwdriver…
Now that I am safely in the country I can relate the nail-biting story of how I almost wasn’t let into the UK which only some people know. (It is…
The Great Journey Begins Well…here goes nothing…. I’m on the plane. Got through security much quicker than I expected to. And had 20 minutes to futz about before the plane…
When I first arrived in NYC, I was driving a massive U-Haul with my friend and soon-to-be roommate for 6 years. And the first thing I did was to take…