23/04/12 » Return to ArtsEd and Sondheim
Ben is returning to ArtsEd this summer to direct a second year project based around SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, which will also be his first return to Sondheim since he directed SWEENEY TODD in 2005.
23/03/12 » THREE BIRDS soars
Benet's production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's brilliant play about the 80s art scene, THREE BIRDS ALIGHTING ON A FIELD, has now finished its in-house run at the Birmingham School of Acting performed by an impressive Anglo-American cast.
31/01/12 » ANGELS triumphs
Benet's production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America was rapturously received this weekend infront of two capacity audiences.
15/12/11 » Return to Year Out Drama
Benet is to return to Year Out Drama in Stratford-upon-Avon, a company now in its 26th year, to direct a third production with the students there following THE ROALD DAHL PROJECT which he created in 2009 and Moises Kaufman's THE LARAMIE PROJECT in 2010. This third production will take place in January 2012.
14/12/11 » DEAR MARJE gets first public reading
DEAR MARJE, Benet's play about the life and career of journalist Marjorie Proops, received its first public reading today at the Trafalgar Studios in front of an invited audience. Journey's End director David Grindley directed Lesley Manville, Lloyd Hutchinson and Lucy Briggs-Owen.
01/12/11 » Ben to Birmingham
Ben is delighted to be directing his first production for the Birmingham School of Acting in Feb/March 2012.
23/09/11 » Writer Harvey gives seal of approval to BOOM
Jonathan Harvey was in last night's capacity audience for BOOM BANG-A-BANG. The enthusiastic house, and the writer (who was seeing the play for the first time since its original production in 1995), gave it an enthusiastic reception.
