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DOWNTON ABBEY Series 1

DOWNTON ABBEY has just added to its awards haul with the Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series (January 2012).  We send our congratulations to the whole team at Carnival and to our client Tina Pepler for her contribution to Series 1 of the blockbuster show.

ARABIAN NIGHTS| Poppy Burton-Morgan

Poppy Burton-Morgan directs The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama's Christmas Show featuring stories including Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Sinbad the Sailor, The Little Beggar and more of the classic tales from The Arabian Nights, this magical production features original music, dance, puppetry, vibrant costumes and stunning visual effects.

POSITIVE | Tina Pepler

tx Thursday 21 July 2011, 2.15pm, BBC R4 Afternoon Theatre

14-year old Rosie is admitted to A&E with stomach pains and is shocked to discover that she is pregnant.  Is she capable of making her own decisions without her mother's consent?  An emergency confronts the medical team with a difficult decision about what's best for Rosie's welfare. A 45-minute play produced by Sara Davies and commissioned as part of Inside the Ethics Committee, BBC Radio 4's series about medical ethics presented by Joan Bakewell.

NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO | Robert Rigby

tx Friday 19 August 2011, 2.15pm, BBC R4 Afternoon Theatre

Robert's latest radio thriller is about a confrontation between a teenage shoplifter and a store detective who has seen active service in the Gulf.  A play with songs and music composed and performed by Robert himself.  Produced by Nick Russell-Pavier for Goldhawk Essential.

SCOTT & BAILEY | Diane Taylor

Diane Taylor is co-creator with Sally Wainwright of Red Productions'  new series SCOTT & BAILEY starring Suranne Jones & Lesley Sharp which enjoyed the biggest drama launch audience in years on ITV 1 (May 2011) with an average of 7.92m viewers. Series 2 is currently scripting.

ITV1 May - July 2011

TRESPASS | Rose Tremain

Rose's most recent novel TRESPASS (March 2010) is a contemporary psychological thriller set in the Cevennes.  It interweaves the stories of two sets of brothers and sisters, one French, one English, in an intense and powerful unravelling.  The strong interest always generated by a 'new Tremain' was heightened further following the very popular Orange Prize-winning THE ROAD HOME.  TRESPASS was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 and is a Richard and Judy Book Club Spring Choice for 2011.

BITESIZE | Alexander S. Bermange

Alexander S Bermange's comic songs are featured in this special revue of mini musicals and comedic songs: BITESIZE produced by A Stage Kindly in association with London's Little Opera House, King's Head Theatre, London N1.  

June 11, 12, 24 & 25, 2011   www.kingsheadtheatre.com

TOMORROW MORNING | Laurence Mark Wythe

TOMORROW MORNING, the hit award-winning musical by Laurence Mark Wythe has recently completed a run at the York Theatre in New York where it was been nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical and Best New Musical in the Off Broadway Alliance Awards and the Tina Awards . The London production starring Jon Lee & Julie Atherton opened in London in October at The Landor Theatre to excellent reviews.  The clock ticks down as one couple prepares for marriage and another for divorce in this witty, moving musical. www.tomorrowmorning.co.uk

THE MAN WITH THE FLOWER IN HIS MOUTH | Poppy Burton-Morgan

Poppy Burton-Morgan directed her new playful adaptation of Pirandello's THE MAN WITH THE FLOWER IN HIS MOUTH in a co-production with Greenwich Theatre and Metta Theatre in The London Particular Café (10 November - 5 December 2010) which opened to critical acclaim. 

This delightful production toured intimate café venues in the UK during May 2011.  www.mettatheatre.co.uk

www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk

DOCTORS (BBC1 weekdays at 1.45pm) | Transmission Dates

Ray Brooking - 19 January 2012 The Cat's Meow

                        12 December 2011 Life Lines

                       17 October 2011 - Bring Me the Ted of Albert Garcia

                       7 September 2011 - The Sharpest Cut

                        31 March 2011 - Every Heart That Beats

                        23 February 2011 -  Circling the Drain

                        4 January 2011 - Signs and Wonders    

Mike Chappell - 22 July 2011 - Glad Rags                       

Catch up with the latest news on DOCTORS

HOLLYOAKS | Eddy Marshall | Rob Rohrer

Eddy Marshall (director) - w/c 28 November 2011

                                       - March 2011

Rob Rohrer (director) - w/c 31 October 2011

                                  -  August 2011

                                  - March 2011, Rob directs a week-long court case where Jacqui accuses Gilly of rape.  A landmark debate is decided by a jury of viewers who give a real insight into the jurors' arguments and how people react to them.  Parts of the jury's exchanges on the subject were also made into an online film.                                

Go to the official HOLLYOAKS website

FIRST FOLIO READING V&A Friday late event| Poppy Burton-Morgan

25 March 2011 - 8.30pm Poppy Burton-Morgan directs Timothy and Samuel West reading from Shakespeare's First Folio at the Victoria & Albert Museum in a special evening at The Play-House, when the V&A will be transformed as part of their celebratory evening on the theatre. 

www.vam.ac.uk

GOTCHA| Poppy Burton-Morgan

Poppy Burton-Morgan directs GOTCHA By Barrie Keeffe at the Riverside Studios 1-19 March 2011.  Cast includes Emmerdale's Jake Roche with Jefferson Hall, Emily Dobbs and David Morley Hale.

As the bell rings on the last day of term, two teachers head to the storeroom for some extra-curricular activity. They are oblivious to the frustrations of a disillusioned ex-pupil who, on discovering them, suddenly cracks. The table- turning events that follow teach them a lesson they will never forget.  Jagged Fence return to Riverside Studios with this unnerving and insightful play by ex-teacher and writer of The Long Good Friday, Barrie Keefe.   www.riversidestudios.co.uk

DIRECT RED (BBC R4) | Tina Pepler

tx 11 March 2011, 9pm, BBC R4 Friday Play

Dramatisation of Gabriel Weston's bestselling no-holds barred memoir of life in the operating theatre.  Tina's play has the distinction of being the last ever Friday Play following the axing of this long-running slot for thought-provoking drama.

THE DARKNESS OF WALLIS SIMPSON | Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain’s vivid imagining of the end of Wallis Simpson’s life is now in 45-minute radio play form.  Starring Elizabeth McGovern as the Duchess of Windsor and Miriam Margolyes as French lawyer Maitre Blum and with a wonderful cameo from Nigel Anthony as Cecil Beaton, THE DARKNESS OF WALLIS SIMPSON went out on 29 December 2010 on BBC Radio 4’s Afternoon Theatre directed by Gordon House for Goldhawk Essential.  Rose wrote an accompanying piece for the Daily Telegraph (published on Wednesday 15 December) and Elizabeth McGovern was interviewed in the Independent Magazine (Saturday 18 December).