All Posts

There is a particular kind of English summer afternoon that Kenneth Grahame seems to have invented. Warm, unhurried, spent on or near a river, in the company of good friends with nowhere especially important to b e. Reading The Wind in the Willows for the first time as an adult, I found myself wondering how a book written in 1908 could feel quite so much like a memory. The Wind in the Willows gets its first outdoor performance at the briefly reopened Dell in Hitchin in 2021.

With such a multitude of ways to deliver a ghost story, I've chosen to take a subtle approach, but there's not just me. Not by a long long way! This November, Paramount Pictures releases Ebenezer : A Christmas Carol, a major Hollywood adaptation of A Christmas Carol directed by Ti West and starring Johnny Depp. From what we have seen so far it promises to be a darker, wilder take on the story, which is entirely in keeping with a director known for pushing genres into unexpe

Mat Jones reflects on twelve years of performing A Christmas Carol, from a candlelit church in North Herts to stages across the UK.