https://lnkd.in/eyUfJMC ‘Vril’ is free to download for five days from tomorrow. This occult thriller explains how to this day, there are still those who seek to harness the mystical secret force which the Nazis tried to master, exploring the misguided…

Anyone with friends and contacts in the arts will have noticed a lot of disquiet on social media in particular by actors, dancers and other performers who are feeling their professions have been denigrated by government ministers as little more…

By Rebecca Reed. British Theatre has endured crises before during outbreaks of the plague between 1603 and 1613.  Equally, The Globe theatre in London was shut for nearly 80 months. The country’s theatres were shut at the start of the…

I decided once lock-down loomed that I would need a project and so from around the 20th April, I started researching and then wrote an adventure novel with a comic twist set in the late medieval period. It was completed…

Essentially, a Vrkolak is a Bulgarian Werewolf but what is a ‘werewolf’? There are vampire and werewolf legends across France, Germany and elsewhere but the Vrkolak is peculiarly Bulgarian. Depending on where you find yourself in Europe, werewolves may be…

Vril is a word seldom heard today and yet this simple four-letter word has in a round-about way had far more impact on the world than any expletive. The secret, mystical power of Vril came to the fore in a…

We live in unprecedented times and this applies possibly more to the theatre than any other industry, being essentially based on crowding people together in a stationary position. However, for amateur theatres in particular, the current periods of self-isolation and/or…

The news is completely dominated at the moment by the coronavirus pandemic and the theatre industry, being based on getting people together in close proximity, is going to be affected more than most. A recently published article in the Stage…

Is theatre primarily political or essentially just entertainment? This debate has rumbled along with most theatre practitioners insisting on the former whilst the process of an application to the Arts Council for a grant suggests that the main purpose of…

‘Shop for rent’ signs adorn the high streets in ever increasing numbers as retailers, banks and small traders continue to close down premises. The internet is of course primarily to blame, whether for on-line buying or internet banking but there…