Stephe Harrop

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Stephe Harrop

Stephe Harrop completed a practice-based PhD in 2007, and has since lectured in drama at Royal Holloway, Goldsmiths and Rose Bruford Colleges, as well as becoming a post-doctoral associate of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (University of Oxford). When not teaching, researching or blogging, Stephe also works as a professional performance storyteller.

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DryWrite

The upstairs room of the George Tavern is one of those places you read about in books when you were a kid…

Midnight Matinee

The Midnight Matinee is a scratch night that kicks off at midnight and promises a mixed bill of new work, work-in-progress and general experiment.

Rapunzel’s Last Midnight

Somewhere in all this, there’s a neat, touching, melancholy little musical, about shifting from the black notes to the white, and believing in the possibility of happy endings, despite experience.

The Cows Come Home

The Cows Come Home is an enigmatic experience that resonates in some place deeper and stranger than the intellect.

The Only Girl in the World

The Only Girl in the World insists upon the importance of remembering the real people who get lost when public horrors shatter hidden, private lives.

Witchcraft

Witchcraft is definitely not for the linguistically faint-hearted, nor for those who can’t handle a few clunking plot-devices.

Tinderbox

In the end, Tinderbox is an entertaining and strangely uplifting little piece, if scarcely profound.

Fram

In this tragedy without a chorus, Murray’s open-mouthed mask remains mute, and no amount of impassioned testimony can bring the sprawling drama to any sort of resolution.

Chains of Dew

Sam Walters has unearthed a monumentally unfashionable old play that packs a hefty moral punch, and asks questions about the cost of personal freedom that many a liberated (post)modern would baulk at.

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  • Glad you had a good time! I'm afraid I don't remember whether it was an official...

    Stephe Harrop
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  • Did you go to a press showing maybe, where the audience was bolstered by 'professionals'? I...

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  • Thanks for that. I'll bear it in mind.

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  • I think to your credit you do acknowledge that the problem might be located less with the...

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  • Interesting you should say that, as I've been wondering much the same thing myself...

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