“While the eldest, I was the last of my sisters to fasten the nuptial noose around my neck and kick the matrimonial stool from under my feet” – Popova

“Forward Theatre Project Artistic Director Charlotte Bennett teams up with Olivier Award winning actor David Bradley to produce a companion piece to Chekhov’s one-man short tragi-comedy ‘The Harmful Effects of Tobacco’. Nyukhin, tired husband and enthusiastic smoker, delivers a lecture (at the request of his wife) on the evils of smoking … but is it really that simple?

Follow this up by meeting his wife as classic comic Chekhov meets the best in new writing as husband and wife are brought together in this stunning double-bill” - FTP

After 20 script submissions from FTP and Script Yorkshire, 4 were shortlisted and performed script-in-hand by David Bradley at the York Theatre Royal in June.

My play Can Cause Death was selected to be the piece to partner the Chekhov monologue. This is a project in progress … updates as and when.

**UPDATE**

7/8/10: Exciting news pending … don’t want to jinx it so all I can confirm for now is that it’s news that is exciting …