JASON MORELL AHEAD OF DYLAN THOMAS IN FITZROVIA: WE ARE ALL POETRY ADDICTS
A successful stage and screen career well under his belt, actor Jason Morell temporarily stepped behind the metaphorical curtain to devote himself to a different kind of endeavour: a celebration of Dylan Thomas, one hundred years after his birth. The result is Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia, a week-long festival taking over the neighbourhood where the poet “drank, lived and loved” and transforming it into London’s central spot for all things Thomas.
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A few yards away from the centre of British politics: Jamie Lloyd on Trafalgar Transformed
Now in its second season Trafalgar Transformed does what it says on the tin (or the poster as the case may be). It’s a long-term mission to turn Trafalgar Studios, once a not too popular West End venue ‘where touring productions went to die’ into a theatre with a repertoire that responds to the world around it, rather than blissfully ignoring it.
