Sitting in the Gulbenkian theatre Canterbury, the programme in one hand and my confused friend next to me I try to explain to him what was going on in the first half of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Having come to the end of my elaborate description, I was faced with a puzzled look and the...

Sometimes it seems that it would be better for us all if novels were just left to be novels.  Usually a great book ends up becoming a poor stage or movie version and vice versa, but sometimes a novel is successfully adapted into an amazing stage play.  So what can one do to an already...

In 1967, when 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern' first opened, the playwright Tom Stoppard was asked "What's it all about then?" his reply "It's about to make me rich!" could this same theory be the only reason musicals are being made into film? Les Miserables is opening nationwide in the New Year....