‘What is that word “always”?

Last weekend, along with many other people, I sat down to watch the new BBC adaptation of Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable Boy’. It wasn’t perfect, but adaptations of books rarely are (Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ and the most recent BBC ‘Howard’s End’ being two exceptions), and this book was realistically never going to turn into…

Mental health problems in creative industries

As a writer, and a literature student, my life is full of anecdotes about people who only became famous after their death, or who had to wade through endless rejections before becoming successful. Any creative person will be used to these little anecdotes, the ones like "Beethoven was once told he was unmusical", seemingly meant…

Dear theatres, I love you

Today I’m going to write about one of my great loves. No, I don’t mean pesto pasta or young Hugh Grant, although admittedly those do both hold a special place in my heart. No, I’m talking of “this wooden O” (or perhaps "a wooden O" - I sadly have no personal acquaintance with the Globe).…