Where We Start From
Steve ScrivensBritish writer, theatre practitioner, and cultural essayist. Writing from Vermont as I prepare for a new life in France. Essays on Europe, literature, memory, belonging, and the art of beginning again.
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After The Storm
After the Storm
Thursday, July 9, 2026
This morning, I crossed from my home on Elm Street to gaze at the north branch of the Winooski River. The water flows; gentle and unhurried. Sunlight filters through the trees, casting shifting sha...
TWENTY/TWENTY
At eleven years of age, I sat an exam that had been rebranded as a Verbal Reasoning Test, though everyone still called it the eleven-plus. I had practised versions of it for months, the way children practise things they sense will be used t...
The Gate Keeps Moving
This is the first in a new occasional strand I am calling Dispatches: pieces that sit alongside my main Where We Start From sequence when a subject presses too directly on the wider culture, or on the life of artists and writers, to wait it...
The Theatre Producer’s Eye
They say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness, and answering back is the second. I have always thought that a little harsh. In the theatre, we call it rehearsal.
This essay, indeed, this whole series, was meant to be about Fran...
Three Novels That Explain Modern France
You probably thought this was going to be some refined exploration of French literary tradition. You gave me the benefit of the doubt and came on in anyway, so let’s be honest with each other about what this is. Three novels that explain Fr...
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British writer, theatre practitioner, and cultural essayist. Preparing to relocate from Vermont to France. Writing about Europe, culture, and the art of beginning again.
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