As noted earlier in this blog, keeping regular diaries and journals isn’t a strong point and here I am blogging the final days of Salt’n’Sauce in the seasonal hiatus between Christmas and New Year — so much for this being a complete heat-of-the-moment, up-to-the-minute record of the production. I have been writing about the show […]
This article, first published in December 2006’s edition of the Writernet Bulletin, explores the writing and production of Salt’n’Sauce for Theatre West’s autumn 2006 season at the Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol.
Simon warned earlier this week that all the shows he’d worked on had got cool receptions from audiences at least once during their runs. I was starting to feel a bit complacent that it wasn’t going to happen with Salt’n’Sauce, but it happened tonight. Things were looking good at the start of the evening. The […]
Steve's play, which tells the life story of the Russian novelist, dramatist and short-story writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-52), is directed by Andy Burden and performed very energetically and imaginatively by Martin Aukland and Julia Gwynne. The script is an absurdist comedy featuring inventive use of props and puppetry, which merges cleverly into near-realism when […]
