Ian Gouge

WRITER

Plays

  • Looking for a last-minute present?

    These are some of the great books I’ve published under my Coverstory books imprint – all of them are available, and none of them are mine! Click on each book for more information and for to links to some major retailers. All print-on-demand, so should be with you in around 7-10 days. Happy shopping!

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  • ‘Bound’ – a work-in-progress

    I am in the process of working on Bound – a new poetic monologue in the manner of Crash – and have made a recording of a draft version of the piece. As it is intended to be staged, I need you to imagine an almost bare stage apart from a desk and chair facing…

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  • Podcast Episode: “Crash”

    I have just uploaded a reading of my long poem, Crash, to my podcast. The piece was performed as a dramatic monologue on the 10th June at the Ripon Theatre Festival in North Yorkshire. The performance opens with a man rousing himself from sleep. He stretches, puts on his dressing gown and glasses. Then he…

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  • An interim update (2nd June)…

    Although this is undeniably ‘off piste’ in terms of my daily diary, given the bleak nature of my earlier post – and yesterday’s ‘black day’ – I feel it incumbent on me to offer a glimmer of light sooner rather than later. And if not for you, then for me..! Merely as a point of…

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  • Interesting TV – but you’ve got to go searching for it…

    In the last week or so I have seen three interesting chunks of TV – but I had to go looking for them. And I’m afraid that as these are all on BBC iplayer, if you’re outside the UK you may not have access to them… Mark Lawson talks to Martin Amis. an hour-long interview…

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  • My writing journey to the performance of “Crash”…

    Ever since I wrote my first story aged five – an illustrated tale about a boy’s adventures in space – I wanted to do nothing other than write. In my early years this was an ambition fulfilled merely in fits and starts, and even then only in a minor way. This changed at the turn…

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  • Writing longhand…

    “you have to make an effort when putting pen to paper; it’s more meaningful; you leave something of yourself in the marks you make” Caroline, in my forthcoming story “Smoking in the Park”

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  • “Krapp’s Last Tape and other shorter plays”

    What can you say about Samuel Beckett? If you have ever seen “Waiting For Godot” performed live you’ll know the genius of the man. Beckett is a supremely visual playwright, and so simply reading “Krapp’s Last Tape and other shorter plays” was never going to be an excessively rewarding experience. But having a sense of…

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