SHAUN KITCHENER

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  • Top 25 albums of 2017

    Top 25 albums of 2017

    For the last couple of years I’ve #SHUNNED a conventional “Top X albums…” list in favour of a straightforward ranking of each and every one I listened to. I heard 50 in 2017 and started typing out a ranked thing, but honestly this has been such a shrug-worthy year for full-length records that I got Read more

  • Top 50 singles of 2017

    Top 50 singles of 2017

    This is my TENTH ONE OF THESE LISTS, guys, I’m getting so old – and my extra-ness is not diminishing with age! How about that?!?!?!1?! These are the past winners of these annual slogs: 2008: Sweet About Me – Gabriella Cilmi 2009: Battlefield – Jordin Sparks 2010: Teenage Dream – Katy Perry 2011: Till The Read more

  • Christmas Farce opens this week – with bonus Anita Dobson!

    Christmas Farce opens this week – with bonus Anita Dobson!

    Christmas Farce – a play of mine that had its first outing a couple of years ago – is back, bigger and better than ever, for three whole weeks, starting this Tuesday (November 28). We’re at the good ol’ Waterloo East Theatre this time; bringing Samuel Buttery, Marc Gee-Finch, Emma Tansley and Alan Bradley on Read more

  • New play All That debuting this June

    New play All That debuting this June

    My new play All That is being wheeled out for five performances this June. Semi-coincidentally sharing its name with a lovely Carly Rae Jepsen slowjam, the piece is a comic drama about varying attitudes towards monogamy within the gay community – but not as dry as that probably sounds. It follows two couples – one Read more

  • I’ve written for Hollyoaks, pinch me

    I’ve written for Hollyoaks, pinch me

    I’m very excited to have been working with Hollyoaks. It’s been pretty much exactly a year since my amazing agent first floated the possibility of maybe doing some bits with them, and now – after a rigorous trial process, a commission, several drafts and a lot of waiting – the TX date is here. It Read more

  • New show Shaun Kitchener’s Six Pack for Leicester Square Theatre this February

    New show Shaun Kitchener’s Six Pack for Leicester Square Theatre this February

    I’m extremely excited to have a new show on the way next month, at none other than central London’s Leicester Square Theatre. I say ‘new show’, it’s a collection of six short plays that have all been rejigged and improved since initially being showcased at the various Briefs new writing nights. Shaun Kitchener’s Six Pack Read more