Waiting in the Wings

At time of writing we at Best are sitting on our hands waiting for the Government to pronounce on holiday clubs for the summer. Will they...

We know at relatively close quarters what drama students are going through at the moment. The training you receive at drama school is of ...

The virus shutdown happened to completely and so fast that it gave no time for planning, speculating or strategising. Since then most peo...

One of the most challenging parts of staging a Shakespeare play is the setting. When/why/how etc. It's rare nowadays to see the plays per...

The famous wail of every actor, but sometimes... Just watching the streaming of Anthony and Cleopatra from the National Theatre. I rememb...

I booked this on a total whim - I'd always heard great things about Complicite and Simon McBurney in particular and it menitoned in the b...

It was fantastic to see the two versions of 'Frankenstein' from the National Thetre over the last coupole of nights. And what was facinat...

It's been sad but equally fascinating to see how theatre has reacted to the lockdown. Sad? Because so much hard work by so many people ha...

It's been very interesting to see the ways in which actors have to cope technically with different theatre spaces in the streamed shows c...

In 1985 Annette and I went to the Barbican, where the RSC were resident at the time, to see a new play by Peter Barnes - Red Noses. A com...

In 2018 Best's youth theatre group TheBYTE rejoined the National Theatre Connections programme and chose 'These Bridges' by Phoebe Eclair...

Easter time is traditionally associated with the performance of Mystery Plays. One of the earliest established forms of drama in western ...

How are you all doing out there? I don't think we've ever been busier here at Best HQ; finding new ways to communicate with people, deve...

Annette and I went to meet the National Theatre team who would be helping us. We were somewhat taken aback to find around 30 people in th...

Christian Bevan, final year student at LAMDA writes... It’s a phrase often said to actors. Listen. I got the note during a recent rehears...

The Boy Preference was ready to go. Unusually for us we had a powerful tech team to - Jack Wills on lighting, Cristabel Gordon stage mana...

Annette's friend Sue gave me a ticket for this as she couldn't make it - it is probably the best play I have ever seen. Deeply rooted in ...

I have to confess to being 'old school.' My background is fairly typical of someone coming out of drama school in the early 80's. My firs...

Jez Butterworth's 'Jerusalem' had taken the West End and Broadway by storm and we caught it on its return to the West End. Annette was r...

Upstaging is a fine art to ensure that you remain the centre of attention on stage, drawing focus even when you aren't speaking. It's the...