With a pencil and a polystyrene cup artist David Breuer-Weil accidentally created a new art-form, writes Gerald Isaaman

It happened two years ago. Artist David Breuer-Weil, 39, was doodling at a meeting. He picked up his biro and started making holes in the empty white polystyrene coffee cup sitting on the table before him.
Such were the results that he didn’t throw it away like litter but took it home with him to Erskine Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb. And began experimenting. Since then he has bought polystyrene cups galore.
The outcome is that he has created a new art form from his accidentally found medium of cheap and nasty polystyrene cups, and the amazing results go dramatically on show next week at a new exhibition of his work.

Danny Morrison tells Richard Hodkinson his membership of the IRA inspired his latest play

The Armalite and the ballot box is the phrase that came to define the intractable political conundrum of Northern Ireland.
The man who coined the phrase is Danny Morrison, former IRA volunteer and one-time director of publicity for Sinn Fein. His name is better known to historians of Irish Republicanism than to theatre-goers, but he hopes the opening of his play, The Wrong Man, at the Pleasance Theatre, on Saturday, will secure his growing literary reputation.