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Everyday Stories of Life and Death

Outside the Box Book – Everyday Stories of Life and Death Thank you for considering sending in a story. The background to this book is my show Outside the Box – A live show about death. It premiered in 2016 and since then has been performed all over the country...

Death Oscars Awards Ceremony

  Thursday September 7th was the Good Funeral Awards Ceremony known as the Oscars of the Funeral World. It was held in the Porchester Hall in Bayswater, a lovely wooden panelled room with swags of red velvet and glittering chandeliers. There was prosecco and an...

Stories from our audience (Brighton Fringe)

I didn’t go to see my friend when he was diagnosed with cancer.  I didn’t want to visit him when it was clear he was dying. I kept my distance. I didn’t want to see a man who was so vital, so full of joie de vivre on his last legs.  But I missed a trick.  I missed the...

Annie Castledine

  There is only one subject for this, my first Outside the Box, blog. The recent death of Annie Castledine. She was the dramaturg on this show and has been my theatre mentor since I was 19. I have never worked with anyone else who matches her brilliance and rigour....