‘The Commercial Traveller’ is done. It has dominated my mind for a year and even longer really given the first drafts of some of the early scenes written over two years ago. It is unlikely that it will be done again. A film has not been made of it, although people often ask if we […]
‘Rehearse’ sort of implies that something is being done again and, of course, for many productions the play is being done again because it’s been taken off the shelf and reproduced – which is fine. Why not revisit old plays if they are good? But The Commercial Traveller is a brand new play and rehearsals, […]
We had a great deal of lovely feedback about ‘Macbyrd’. We know you love the birds as you did the animals in ‘Gentle Harry’s Farm’, or the dog in ‘Five get Famous’. When it comes to writing a new play that thought, that you liked this or that, dominates my mind, and there is always […]
TS Eliot said that April was the cruelest month, but I think he was wrong. Surely February is! The longest day is already well and truly gone, Christmas is over and the longing for Spring has set in, but the rain and mist and cold still keep coming and torment us (let alone yet more […]
If you are a fan of the Rudes and are used to seeing us in the summer time, you may wonder what we get up to for the rest of the year. Well, occasionally we do a winter show (such as The Dressing Book, or The Lighthouse Keeper’s Cat). These are either in theatres, or […]
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