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I, itinerant
I moved house this weekend.
A rough trawl through the years puts this latest (rented) abode as my 24th place of residence; a fact I find faintly worrysome. This particular move was physically and emotionally knackering. No sooner had I dumped all my stuff, unsorted, into the house I now share with Johnny HamFisted, I was [...]
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Shelf Life
Belfast
Queen’s Uni
On top of the stacks
In the old, abandoned Library.
The information has been carted off,
But ghosts are still present.
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Arts & Kraft’s
I’m born, raised and currently resident in a part of SW Birmingham that has been dominated by two huge manufactories – Rover and Cadbury’s. In fact my dad worked at both Longbridge and Bournville factories. Three years ago, while I was delivering a Creative Partnerships programme (‘creativity in teaching & learning’ – schools projects in Frankley, a [...]
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Tags: Birmingham, cadburys, MG Rover, Frankley, Arts
Ringing the Changes
The new year brings a fresh impetus to investigate and savour the latest cultural delights of my City. In-between more present shopping for BoyWonderNo.1 (*9 today*) I reached out for nourishments freely available in galleries. The latest IKON exhibition Shocked Into Abstraction by Matias Faldbakken left me non-plussed, however. I resisted the need to read up artist [...]
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Tags: Birmingham, bmag, catherine o'flynn, civic centre
02.01.2010 As the bliss-bubbles of the Christmastide ebb away, I face up to the prospect of a new year that has been trumpeted in by Captain Skint on his Frugal-horn. At the chime of midnight I was too busy having fun to hear his clarion call beneath a cacophony of TV fireworks: anticipating a reprisal [...]
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little sister’s big sister
Part of the thrill, and challenge, of making a devised show is that you discover the rules as you proceed. A methodology emerges as the material gets made. Having a pre-defined formula would make for a more efficient process but I choose to adopt a more open, playful approach – knowing that accidents will yield [...]
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Tags: Bristol University, Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
the little sister
This week I led my first sessions with current 2nd year Theatre students at Bristol University, as part of this year’s Performance 2 Unit. As with last year’s Relâche, I find I’m working with a fiercely intelligent, attentive and feisty group of young people whose talent and bearing will no doubt propel them to bright futures. [...]
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Tags: Bristol University, Chandleresque, The Little Sister
Antigone
Though an ancient and beautiful city, my prior knowledge of Montpellier was restricted to its reputation as bastion of the architectural postmodern. I wandered from the old town into the Antigone district to check out what looks on the map like a St.Peter’s Sq. gone mad. (link)
As a statement in Civic ambition (nay aggrandisement) it [...]
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Tags: Antigone, Birmingham, Montpellier, postmodernism
Montpellier
The Cleansing of Constance Brown opens tonight in the elegant surroundings of the Domaine d’O, Montpellier.
Director Christopher Crimes specialises in the development and establishing of new venues/programmes. He first booked Stan for a European version of the rice at the impressive Theatre le Quai, in Angers, 2 years ago. Here in Montpellier he is rewriting [...]
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Tags: Chateau d'O, Domaine d'O, Montpellier, ofallthepeopleinalltheworld, Stan's Cafe, The Cleansing of Constance Brown, thericeshow
Forever Indebted
I find myself having conversations about how lucky I am / one is to have work happening in these tricksy times. Maintaining a flexibility to work and working patterns is probably the key; theatre-making teaches you to have to respond to eventualities, survive on your wits, make do on the leanest means. Arts organisations can [...]
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Tags: debt, forever in your debt, foursight theatre, newhampton arts centre, talking birds
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