Published: 02 September 2010

• REMEMBER director Victor Sobchak from theatre company Act Provocateur (formerly based at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town)? He’s back with a brand new theatre! Last week Camden Council granted permission for the Russian director to stage plays in the Lord Stanley pub in Camden Park Road, near Camden Square.

• Speaking of the Lion and Unicorn, its resident theatre company Giant Olive has won the backing of Camden politicians in its drive to take its play ZIP: A Streetdance Musical on a national tour. Apparently Holborn and St Pancras Labour MP Frank Dobson, among others, has thrown his weight behind a funding bid.

• He started writing short stories and plays when he was a pupil at Thornhill Primary School in Barnsbury – and now Islington-born playwright David Watson’s third play, Pieces of Vincent, is showing in Dalston. Watson, who is just 25, got his break when one of his dramas was snapped up by the Royal Court. His latest tells the story of a man adrift in London and described as “human shrapnel”. “Hopefully the experience for the audience will be as if a bomb has exploded and we’re picking up the fragments,” he told me. Pieces of Vincent is at the Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola Street, E8, from September 2-25. For tickets call 020 7503 1646. 

• Congratulations to the winners of our Les Mis competition: Tracey Gunne, Miles Ognenovic, Elizabeth Connolly, Wen-Cheng Yen and Mr D Hertsis.