Monthly Archives: September 2009

Detente

Not quite sure what to make of Andrew Haydon’s mildly tongue-in-cheek list of cliches of visual theatre that should be banned: some items on the list are specific images or props – battered suitcases, falling feathers, umbrellas-as-birds, people climbing out of furniture1 – but elsewhere there’s the demand that we get rid of entire forms

3 more ideas

An occasional kind of post in which I am enthusiastic about ideas I’m not working on right now: the Having-A-Good-Day RPG: you found your keys! you’re early  to work! Chair gives +10 sitting. you’re holding a glass of wine at a fancy reception: you’ll need the iPhone app that claps for you when you shake

On Fringes

Some short answers to short questions: what makes a good fringe festival? It’s a festival where you see work you couldn’t or wouldn’t see otherwise; a festival where makers can make performance which couldn’t or wouldn’t otherwise be made. What should fringe organisers do? Create opportunities (and even incentives) for makers to take risks on

Awake

I’ve known for a while that I write well – and, sometimes, write at all – between 7am and lunch. It doesn’t help, then, that the theatre industry prefers evenings, and the comedy industry prefers late nights. So I’m now attempting to persuade myself that – after a month of making 7pm the sensible time