Art. Where it comes from. Who it is for. Why anyone would bother doing it. Sometimes the compulsion to speak, and to be heard, is too strong. It refuses containment. Watching the Belarus Free Theatre’s “Minsk 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker” in Edinburgh 2011 was a reminder of how the free speech we enjoy […]

Originally posted on mid * point:
Kindle Theatre take THE FURIES to VAULT Festival, London. Since we started in 2005 we seem to have thrived off some kind of horror or another, whether that be a story that informs the content of a project – blasphemy, cannibalism, murder, or whether that be an actual part of…

The familiar clarion of “the Bawlly” (the scrap-metal collector) has followed me this past couple of days. This is the sound of a wrecked and strangulated trumpet piercing the air over otherwise quiet neighbourhoods…. followed by a damaged voice imparting what I can only assume to be “Old Iron!”. The Bawlly has always plied his […]

Following yesterday’s tragic news of the deaths of three men on Dudley Rd., here is video edit of the grieving communities coming together to discuss their response; Birmingham Vigil: “The three who died, died nobly. Don’t riot in their name” – video, via The Guardian, 11th Aug ’11 A Peace protest is planned for sunday 14th […]

For a view of the local events as they are unfolding: The Birmingham Riots 2011 – Casey Rain Blog Messages have been coming in from distant friends across the globe, saddened and bewildered at the news images depicting urban Blighty in 2011: Gangs of young looters, seemingly buoyed by a collective mob mentality, ransacking the high streets of […]