Sean Walsh

Re THE CIRCUS, my four-hander which has now happily morphed into a six-hander, 125 Valium Valley: The late Bill Morrison, an accomplished playwright in his own right and – for a time – Drama producer, BBC Northern Ireland, read the script and enthused about it. So much so that when he settled in Liverpool to join Chris Bond, Willy Russell and...

Sadoc to Azarias: Well… this fellow came to us, you see… One of them, a follower of the Nazarene… A close friend, so they say.’Comes from a place called Keriot… Judas, I think, he called himself. A bloody red beard with a bloody foxy look that said as loud as words – “Give me money”. So we did. Thirty of...

I’m asking myself how do I write to a man who is so gifted with words? Your book, Notes on the Past Imperfect, spoke right to my heart. I cried a lot reading it but also smiled at parts. The one thing that came across powerfully to me was your deep love for Jenny and her love for you –...

IN FRATERNITATE… Paris. Circa 2010. In a bistro near Notre Dame, Jim and I meet up: pasta, wine, coffee – and talk, talk!.. And when I mentioned – shyly, reluctantly – an idea for a drama that was, as yet, very much in embryo his eyes lit up and he became an instant fan! Then questions, questions! And in striving to...

By Robert Mickens. Some five years ago I was invited to speak at the City Club of Cleveland, Ohio. * The topic of my talk was the Vatican implosion and, as a result, the long and gradual collapse of the Catholic Church’s monarchical structure of governance and ministry. I argued that as the last absolute monarchy in the West (and...