With Elizabeth Wright’s stage play of Vanessa and Virginia continuing at the Riverside Studios in London this month, by the award-winning Moving Stories Theatre under the direction of Emma Gersch, I asked the play’s musical director Jeremy Thurlow about writing music for the theatre and Vanessa and Virginia specifically. – Where did you begin with creating music for Vanessa …
Writing about real people
A few weeks ago, novelist Clare Morgan and I gave a joint talk at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival. The organisers of the Festival presented us with a goodie bag, to say thank you for our contribution. I still have the bag. Not only is it a decent size and nicely robust, it is also rather beautiful, with shiny …