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Compared to escaping into the metaverse, the sensation of being part of a theatre audience is visceral and life-affirming, says pioneering producer and emerging-talent champion Isabella Macpherson. Here’s how shared experiences are giving us a sense of freedom again…

When actress Gala Gordon and producer Isabella Macpherson established Platform Presents they wanted to redress the balance in theatre. They weren’t expecting a pandemic to make some changes of its own. Nick Curtis meets the women pivoting to transform London’s West End.

"What counts is the ambience – the halfway state aligning both with the characters’ condition and the Covid context. We’re all sitting on grief at the moment. This succinct effort allows that a brief bubbling forth.”

- Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph

"Good Grief is a bittersweet study of bereavement..: The script expertly packs an eight-month arc of bereavement into less than 50 minutes.” 

- Nick Curtis, Evening Standard 

Good Grief Review: Sian Clifford and Nikesh Patel rehearsed for two days on Zoom before being filmed in a studio in Lorien Haynes’s impressively naturalistic bereavement story.

Stoppard gem earns an ovation from the sofa: David Morrissey headed up a cast united on Zoom for a show that took on poignant new meaning and exuded theatrical joy.

The multifaceted Gala Gordon loves being on stage but she tells Lucy Cleland why she’s using her platform to promote other young rising stars…

Change Makers Gala Gordon & Isabella Macpherson: The Pioneering Producers...

Platform Presents: The London company setting the stage for female playwrights...

How to embrace your inner poet in 2020: Everything you need to write a successful poem by two women in the know...

Platform Presents New Playwright's Prize & Poetry Gala In London...

Preacher writer Mary Laws: 'I'm happy to get angry and deep about faith and God'. As her horror comedy Blueberry Toast is staged in London, the Texan talks about how Christianity informs everything she writes...

Why so many Hollywood actresses are turning producer: Actress Gala Gordon explains why she and so many of her acting peers are following the Reese Witherspoon producer formula...

Crown star Gala Gordon says new play Blueberry Toast is 'all about a woman finding her strength'.

Andrew Scott and Florence Welch join star poetry line-up in support of refugees.