Paul T Davies

Play Something Comes To Drayton Arms Theatre

LGBT, News, Off West End
Play Something Drayton Arms Theatre

Following a highly successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Stage Write bring their acclaimed LGBT play Play Something to the Drayton Arms Theatre. Written by Paul T Davies, Play Something played to acclaim last year at the Lakeside Theatre at the Universiry Of Essex. The production will be presented at the Drayton Arms for a strictly limited season from 18 – 22 September at 7.30pm. “Side One, Track Two. That song is about me.” From beginning to end, M and F tell you the story of their love, and ask the DJ to Play Something. Something to make love to, to split up to, to celebrate, to cry, and to play the Forever Song. They are the songs of all of us. Covering decades, younger become older and the play becomes the story of everyone who has loved, lost, and loved again, and had Our Song. Stage Write was … Read more

Play Something Heads To Edinburgh Festival

Edinburgh Fringe, LGBT, News, Regional
Play Something to perform at Edinburgh Festival

Following its acclaimed premiere at the Mercury Theatre in 2016, Stage Write will be taking the show to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer! “Side One, track two. That song is about me.” Two men meet in a club. It’s supposed to just be casual sex. But their paths keep crossing, keeping it casual for years, until feelings deepen. But how does a non-emotional man become emotional? To tell you their story they ask the DJ to play something. Something to make love to, to split up to, to celebrate, to cry, and to play the Forever Song. They are the songs of all of us. Covering decades, younger become older and the play becomes the story of everyone who has loved, lost, and loved again, and had Our Song. Writer and director Paul T. Davies says, “We had a tremendous response to the play when we presented it last year, … Read more

CRITIC’S CHOICE 2016: Paul T Davies

Critic Round Ups, Features, Off West End, Reviews, West End
Kenny Morgan returns to the Arcola Theatre

We asked our reviewers to take a look at 2016 and to nominate some stand out productions for 2016. Paul T Davies replied with the following:- 1. Kenny Morgan A well structured, naturalistic and beautifully performed play takes my choice as the best new play of 2016. Kenny Morgan was the real life lover of playwright Terence Rattigan, who, after his life spiralled into despair after leaving Rattigan, took his life by gassing himself in front of a gas fire. As a result, Rattigan wrote The Deep Blue Sea, which opens with his heroine, Hester Collier attempting to gas herself. Mike Poulton’s play, in many ways, is the play Rattigan couldn’t have written. Central to the production was Paul Keating’s powerful and moving performance as Kenny Morgan, for me, the male actor of the year. Yet the whole ensemble were terrific, the set perfect and the script shimmered with restrained, … Read more