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In the 1970s and 1980s, more than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products. It’s a scandal that should’ve caused shockwaves but has, for the most part, remained unrecognised. Luke Shelley’s new Slick Films produced short What We Wished We Could Be is centred around this scandal but rather than taking a documentary or even docu-drama approach, Shelley decided to tell his story from the dramatised perspective of a couple who have been directly affected by the issue. It’s a tense and confronting watch, showing how two people can be torn apart by something so out of their hands. With the film making its festival premiere at Rhode Island International Film Festival this month followed swiftly by a screening at HollyShorts, Dn invited Shelley to join us for a chat about the making of the short,...

Tori Amos' musical, The Light Princess, will open at the Lyttelton Theatre on October 9. Joining previously announced Rosalie Craig Ragtime, Finding Neverland and Clive Rowe Into the Woods, Kiss Me Kate will be Amy Booth-Steel, Stephanie Bron, Vivien Carter, James Charlton, Hal Fowler, Owain Gwynn, Nicola Hart, C J Johnson, Luke Johnson, David Langham, Richard Lowe, Tommy Luther, Jamie Muscato, Emma Norin, Malinda Parris, Kane Oliver Parry, Adam Pearce, Caspar Phillipson, Laura Pitt-Pulford, Clive Rowe, Nuno Silva, Phoebe Street, Ben Thompson and Lynne Wilmot.