Flickering Fires

One thing about fires – they are never just a steady red glow – to look realistic, they need to waver and flicker. For a major conflagration like the one …

A Mystery of the Titanic

We all know about urban myths – the sort of things gullible friends pass on in e-mails believing they’re true. Opinions and fictions get quoted and requoted, exaggerated and elaborated, …

Frankenstein on a Budget

Dr Stein was a sequel to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, based on the assumption that the good Doctor had not perished in the Arctic but had been rescued, conveyed to Edinburgh …

Stunned into Silence

They say the end of a play is the most important part, because that’s what the audience remembers as they leave. However, not all productions end with a rousing chorus; …