Yesterday was the opening night at the VAULT Festival of Timothy, my comedy thriller written with Michael Milne, and this time produced by Snatchback & Joyous Gard. I must admit to always being slightly surprised by the continued interest in Timothy, written as it was in great haste during my student theatre days as an experiment in doing something, well, a little bit different. But it's been staged numerous times since then and the response from companies and audiences alike has always been greatly encouraging! I certainly enjoyed watching it again last night. Director Rafaella Marcus has teased out extra moments of tension and horror that I've never seen done in quite this way before, and the cast is uniformly strong. If you're able to see it before it closes on Sunday 18th, do book your tickets here!

Meanwhile, we're halfway through Wooden Overcoats Season 3. Rudyard Takes a Hike by Rosie Fletcher sees Rudyard returning to his roots in the Piffling Scouts, with special guest appearances from Alice Osmanski, Rebecca Boey and comedian Kat Bond. Perhaps the most small-scale episode in the series so far, it's a surprisingly sweet adventure with Rudyard trying his best in a difficult situation of his own making, and features some great interplay between Eric, Georgie and Antigone.

Emotions boil over in Tom Crowley's The Race for Piffling, in which Eric Chapman runs for Mayor and Georgie is determined to see him defeated. In contrast to the last episode, this one is a sprawling mini-epic featuring loads of Piffling residents, including the paranoid Mayor Desmond Desmond (Sean Baker), the tragically cheerful journalist Jennifer Delacroix (Alana Ross), and the return of the indomitable Miss Scruple (Ellie Dickens) - not to mention a few special cameos!

As usual, you can find Wooden Overcoats on iTunes and AudioBoom - and we have our next Live Show coming up on March 23rd when we'll be performing episodes 5 and 6 of the new season. That'll be at Kings Place, near King's Cross Station in London, and you can book yourself tickets here.

The second episode of my sitcom Wooden Overcoats has now been released online, available to download for free from wherever you prefer to nab your podcasts. (We recommend iTunes and AudioBoom)

The script is written by James Hamilton & James Huntrods (Hector vs The Future, Space Chickens in Space) and takes the series into naughtier territory when lonely mortician Antigone agrees to help the enthusiastic Reverend Wavering to write a raunchy novel. Beth Eyre and Andy Secombe are our stars this week and they run with it; I'm so glad we finally gave series regular Secombe a chance to really take a central role in an episode, and Antigone is the perfect character for him to share an adventure with. 

The episode also sees the return of several recurring characters, chief amongst them the nervous cinema projectionist Herbert Cough. Fans of TV panel shows such as QI and Have I Got News For You will recognise Andy Hamilton above, and it was a joy to watch "The Two Andy's" at work together!

And for those who like their podcast sitcoms performed live, our next live show is on March 9th. Book your tickets now and come to King's Place in London to see Episodes 3 and 4 of the new season, the latter performed before it's even been released online. If you do come, say hello - it'd be great to chat!