I'm currently in rehearsals for Mark Jenkin's play Downtown Paradise, with Michael Kelligan/Welsh Fargo Stage Co. We have a run at Chapter from 10-13 September and then performances at the Taliesin in Swansea (18 September), the Riverfront in Newport (25 September) and Neuadd Dwyfor, Pwllheli (4 October).

It's the story of a Black Panther activist in prison in the US in the late 1960s, and the lawyer fighting to free him. It's based on true events - a man called George Jackson and his lawyer Fay Stender (he was a radical icon - Bob Dylan even wrote a song about Jackson, sung here by JP Robinson). Have you been reading about the shooting of Michael Brown by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri? What's really struck me is how little the world appears to have moved on since the time represented in this play.

Come and see the play, and let me know what you think.