After a career break from stage management, Nicole started writing musical theatre. Her first project, Healter Skelter The Musical (music and lyrics by Jimmy Dowd and Kevin McCann), is a gig experience-come-acid trip exploring the psychological effects of post truth. Nicole is also the book writer/co lyricist on pop musical Alter (music and co-lyrics by Nat Birch). Nicole is a librettist at Book, Music and Lyrics workshop programme and a member of Mercury Musical Developments.
If you haven’t seen the film, the story is about two sisters, Mei and Satsuki, who move with their father away from bustling Tokyo to be closer to the...
Donald Trump is an enigma, and rich material for a musical. There have been many attempts to stage his personality, affects, etc in drama, film and mu...
Today is the hottest day of the year so far, and the air-conditioned Cadogan Hall is only two-thirds full. Is the weather keeping people away? Have pe...
The Ministry Of Lesbian Affairs is about a lesbian choir set on making it to the main stage for this year’s Pride festival. As marketed, “harmony is m...
I was really excited to see The Collaboration for completely selfish reasons. In another life, I stage-managed a beautiful show called A Thousand Mile...
The Actor’s Centre, closed for some time now, reopened its doors in a blustery February renamed and rebranded as the Seven Dials Playhouse, and the sh...
Vanishing Point’s INTERIORS is a co-production inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck’s play of the same name. Note, "inspired"; the show itself is not a ret...
In the book the show is based on, F.Scott Fitzgerald writes "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." I'd only...