

The Chaos, The Craft, The Impact
We've written in previous blogposts about how Planter's was written, and about how Fragen ideas emerged during that process. In this...
Jan 31, 2025


Trauma and Triumph
We watched Nyad the other day, a fine biopic of long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad who swam an astonishing 110 miles from Cuba to Florida...
Jan 27, 2025


Towards a Theatre of Chaos
We’ve been going back through our archives, looking at old pictures, sifting through notes, recollecting various experiences from the...
Jan 22, 2025


In Praise of Black Coffee
We’ve been rewatching Twin Peaks recently, over the last few weeks. We watched David Lynch: Art Life for the first time just the other...
Jan 17, 2025


The First Questions
In 2014, Planter’s Island marked the birth of the Fragen approach to theatre: a philosophy rooted in curiosity, self-examination, and the...
Jan 15, 2025

























