Happy New Year Reader. A time of resolutions, promises, wishes, and so, I thought, the perfect moment to share some thoughts on...

What is our responsibility to represent truth on stage? As a person who makes theatre- dare I group us? Yes, I do- as people who make...

For reasons that I don’t totally understand, I went to university and never wrote a dissertation. I did a practical module at a local...

Women. Men. Humans. I am herewith self-publishing my answers to an interview that didn’t make the cut. But never fear, it might not be...

I’m currently working on a rather delightful play, ‘1972: The Future of Sex’, originally by The Wardrobe Ensemble (a really interesting...

I’ve written previously about process vs performance, specifically in relation to creating work with ‘community’ groups and in...

I run theatre workshops for primary school groups, exploring arts and creativity. At the beginning I’ll introduce myself as a theatre...

I have tried, and failed, to write this blog post five times. In fact, this is the scariest thing I have ever written. I want to write...

I wrote a blog post a while ago about how audiences respond to theatre; about how every one of us is an expert at deciding whether a...

We’re into the second week of rehearsals for Anything Other’s first show, All of Me. I’ve been thinking (my mother: “always dangerous”):...

I’ve heard the word ‘uncertain’ repeated over and over in the news this week. With the EU referendum on Thursday, the killing of MP Jo...

It feels like a question which should be pretty straightforward and simple to answer, but it requires some thought. A lot of it actually....

Well, it’s been a while… I could fall back on ‘not enough time in the day’, or ‘got stuff going down’ (the latter, if I were American, or...

Script Club is a project which sees writers going back into the communities in which they grew up to write a new play with, and for, that...

In the world of community arts there exists a heated debate around process and product and which is the more important. Until recently I...