Tim Firth

This Is My Family review

Tim Firth's 2013 musical about domestic dysfunction and redemption seems a little twee by today's standards but the songs and sentimental ending will still melt your heart.

Calendar Girls musical tour casting announced

New casting has been announced for the ongoing UK and Ireland tour of Calendar Girls, Gary Barlow and Tim Firth's musical comedy.

Cast rehearse Neville's Island

Rehearsal photos have been released for the upcoming West End transfer of Tim Firth's comedy. Leading the cast of Angus Jackson's production are Adrian Edmondson, who is reprising his performance as Gordon from the original run in Chichester, Miles Jupp, Neil Morrissey and Robert Webb.

Tim Firth's outstanding Neville's Island (ITV), a feature-length special adapted from his recent West End play, was a treat. A terrifically funny script, with a classic shading of pathos and beautifully constructed moments of narrative tension and resolution, was matched to tremnendous performances from four first-rate actors: David Bamber, Jeff Rawle, Timothy Spall and Martin Clunes - who showed that he can do more dramatically than just be a man behaving badly.

Sorry, but this just won't do. Not funny enough to be comedy, nor profound enough to be drama, it might have limped along unnoticed in the early Seventies but we expect more than decent, honest Northern clichés nowadays.