A new nationwide campaign – backed by the arts councils of England, Wales and Scotland – is urging producers, directors and writers to strive for equal gender portrayal in theatre. I wish I knew exactly what that meant. On one hand, the campaign seems to be interested in parity of opportunity – that equal gender …
A post for students currently taking Devising for the Stage in Spring 09. Here are your instructions: 1. Take a look at the photograph in this entry (you can click to load a larger version). 2. Write the FIRST SENTENCE of a story inspired by this image: one sentence, and one sentence alone. Leave the …
In talking about the influences on the performance project I’m embarking on (slides here – pdf) I picked out one particular problem. How do I (and audiences) process the kind of scale involved in the current financial crisis? How much is a trillion, anyway? Various newspapers have tried recently – with varying degrees of success – …
On the train heading to Newtown for our departmental research conference, looking over the talk I’m giving tomorrow morning. The talk is an attempt to describe the ongoing process of bringing together my research (primarily written, formal, theory-led) with my performance practice (improvised, disposable, pragmatic, comic). More than anything, I want to talk about my …