A PEN, A PAIR OF SHOES AND A HANKERING TO RUN LONG DISTANCES. On Not Becoming a Sports Writer. My memory is fixed in a windowless corridor of him walking out the front door in his charcoal grey overcoat and galoshes. Beyond that how he spent his day was a mystery. This is not my dad, but could be any office in the 1980s. First half term school work. Or even the whirling dervish .

Thursday, February 19, 2015. The creative energies normally used to write blog posts have been used to make boring classroom subject matter interesting.

Robin Hawdon Author and Playwright. Robin Hawdons comedies are amongst the most frequently produced around the world. At any one moment there are likely to be twenty or so productions of various titles, old and new, running in various countries and in diverse languages. Here are described a number of the best known plays, as well as more recent titles, together with brief extracts from their international reviews, and short dialogue examples from each text.