February 11, 2013
Developing Critical Communities for Theatre Writing
In the brief time that I have been in New Zealand (I'm currently traveling for a month around New Zealand and Australia), I've come to realise that much of the concerns about theatre in the UK (or London) are being felt by the practitioners and arts organisations I've spoken to here. In particular, it would appear that there is a need for further critical communities to be able to discuss and engage with work outside of the ...
November 15, 2012
Review: The Effect, Headlong Theatre
A clinical trial looking at the effects of a new anti-depressant. Not quite the setting you'd imagine love to explode from, but in Lucy Prebble's new play, The Effect, under the direction of Rupert Goold for Headlong Theatre at the National Theatre, the effects of chemicals flying through the body take centre stage. I had my worries when Headlong Theatre's Medea seemed to get crushed beneath the towering design and ...
I've found myself at various galleries in the last month during some of the downtown I was having from theatre. Influenced by my sister who studied art at university and through to an MA, the contemporary art world has always found a place in my heart. Several years ago I had my first experience at the Saatchi Gallery at County Hall before it moved to their new premises on Kings Road. There beneath the mahogany panelling and ...
September 28, 2012
How Do You Fail in the Arts?
Last weekend I failed. Not spectacularly. I failed modestly well, which is perhaps modest of me to say so. But failure, is failure. Last weekend marked the end of the residency I was undertaking with Maddy Costa with our project Dialogue at Battersea Arts Centre. As part of this finale of our month-long residency we hosted For the Love of Theatre: Dialogue at BAC. We billed it at as a look into what the future of the ...
September 18, 2012
On the Beauty of Theatre Brochures and Print Material
In a recent blog by Lyn Gardner on the Guardian theatre blog the topic of the dying theatre brochure was explored. Perhaps inevitable in a digital-fuelled world where every other month we're announcing the death of print media as we turn to smart phones, computers and tablets. I may be the digitally minded individual, quick to praise the advancements in technology and connectivity, but when it comes to print, I'm distinctly ...
September 04, 2012
ScratchR – Battersea Arts Centre Launches An Online Scratch Platform
Since the growth of social media and platforms for collaboration, theatre artists and venues have attempted to keep abreast of the trend and offer their take on how these tools could be used in performance. No one can forget, and rightly so, the Royal Shakespeare Company's attempts at mapping a performance of Romeo and Juliet through Twitter. Whilst Such Tweet Sorrow failed to ignite my enthusiasm, it offered a bold ...
