Reggie Oliver is a stage actor and playwright. His biography of Stella Gibbons was praised as "a triumph" by Hilary Spurling in the Daily Telegraph, his play Winner Takes All, was described as "the funniest evening in London", by Michael Billington in The Guardian, and his adaptation of Hennequin and Delacour's Once Bitten opened at the Orange Tree Theatre in London in December 2010.

THE BRIGHTON REDEMPTION: There is a very great deal of vice in Brighton. Even though I

arrived here only a few days ago, I have already seen it with my own eyes. But that, I suppose, in a way, is why I am here.