See, this is the problem, right here: £5 million is being cut from England’s Play Strategy – which aims to improve children’s play facilities and build new adventure playgrounds. Children and Young People Now report that while the capital budget is not facing direct cuts savings will have to be made from the rest of the funding pot, which includes money for staffing refurbished play facilit...

Havel's new absurdist tragicomedy, "Leaving" - his first play since 1988 - depicts a womanizing former political leader who grudgingly confronts the political wilderness. The play will have its foreign premiere in London in September.

Boston Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez apparently has great faith in the success of the surge. Look at this press conference brilliance: I don't care where I play. I can even play in Iraq if need be. My job is to play baseball." If this latest from Ramirez comes as even a remote surprise to you, you're probably not a baseball fan.

Government guidelines for the management of school play times encourage schools to facilitate aerobic activities engaging students in mutually participative but limited contact game orientated play. WHICH MEANS? Send them outside to play tag! This is a joke by the way. Sorry that I have to say this but too many people were taking it seriously!

Labour MP John Denham has hit out at the decision made by the Government and the City Council to suspend the play area programme in Southampton. Mr Denham said: "This will disadvantage the city's children for no good reason. The money was there and there was no reason to cut it. Where do the Tories expect our children to play? "Not only will our children suffer in the long run, but other youn...

If this story about a boy being diagnosed with Play Station addiction is true, it reveals a lot about my own youth but also leaves me wondering whether we should purchase this beauty for Christmas. What do you think? Is a three and half year old too young to play with this stuff?

Here is my letter today to The Citizen re Nature Playgrounds - an issue I've covered several times before - my hope is that some of this £1m money planned for the county play areas over the next years will be put to this use.... Photo: Den making in Standish woods Parmjit Dhanda in his 'view from Westminster' calls for thoughts about how to spend the £1m allocated for play areas in

Interesting to read that Simon Stephens, the playwright responsible for the first play about the bomb attacks on a bus and Underground trains, claims that what they did was "as British as Tizer", adding: "This was an action made in Britain. They were English boys." His play suggests they were not evil, not monsters. His play Pornography, which has already won critical acclaim at the festival, whic...

Interesting to read that Simon Stephens, the playwright responsible for the first play about the bomb attacks on a bus and Underground trains, claims that what they did was "as British as Tizer", adding: "This was an action made in Britain. They were English boys." His play suggests they were not evil, not monsters. His play Pornography, which has already won critical acclaim at the festival, whic...

Caryl Churchill's new short play, Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza, currently running at The Royal Court, has been made available as a free download (pdf). Ticktes for he play, billed as 'a ten minute history of Israel, ending with the bombing of Gaza' are also free, with donations invited...