Entries by David Slattery-Christy

Other People’s Fu**ing – An Oxford Affair

Other People’s Fu**ing! An Oxford Affair By David Slattery-Christy Very excited to have completed my new play based on the relationship between historian and All Souls Fellow A.L. Rowse and Prussian activist Adam von Trott. The play covers the period they met in Oxford from 1929 through to the 1930s. There are many twists, turns […]

Puccini Play Casting News! Lytham Festival Week 2017

Delighted to announce the casting for the premiere of Elvira & I – Puccini’s Scandalous Passions! Giacomo Puccini – Riccardo Provenzano. Elvira Puccini – Louise Steggals. Luigi Illica – Steven Deveney. Ida Bontura Razzi – Laura Nicol. Iginia Puccini – Susan Woodard. Doria Manfredi – Jessica Kuiper. Directed by David Slattery-Christy & Debra Smyth. Lighting […]

Other People’s Fu**ing – An Oxford Affair

Other People’s Fu**ing! An Oxford Affair By David Slattery-Christy Very excited to have completed my new play based on the relationship between historian and All Souls Fellow A.L. Rowse and Prussian activist Adam von Trott. The play covers the period they met in Oxford from 1929 through to the 1930s. There are many twists, turns […]

Praise Indeed!

Thrilled to get this message from my Literary Agent, Robert Smith, today about Composer of the Week and also my Novello biography In Search of Ruritania “Just writing to say how much I enjoyed listening to the five programmes on Novello in the Composer of the Week slot on Radio 3, which in turn inspired […]

Novello New Year!

Well, what a brilliant Christmas and New Year it has been for Ivor Novello! They say everything comes in threes, and it seem that is exactly what happened. The BBC Radio 3 Composer of the Week programmes dedicated to Ivor were brilliant with lots of new recording by the BBC Concert Orchestra, solos by @SimonLepper […]