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Kitchen Sinks and Metaphors: Writing a Poetic World
I’ve always felt that the most gripping plays I’ve seen – the ones that have moved me, arrested me, left me sitting in the seat afterwards still...
Interpreting the Archive: Stories of the Future Past
I’ve been resident part-time as a Writing Fellow in the Theatre Department at Bristol University since the beginning of October. One day a week I’m...
Top Ten Tips for Research and Development
(A daughter meets her father for the first time in 60 years during the 2015 divided family reunions, whilst journalists, North Korean intelligence...
A Play About Brexit? I Wrote One With Teenagers Five Years Ago
A blood-soaked protestor in the anti-austerity protests, Spain 2012 This blog was first written in July 2016 ahead of Derby Theatre's YPT production...
Playwrights Are More Than Their Voices
This blog was originally published in Summer 2016. Today my evaluation is submitted to Arts Council England for my ACE / Peggy Ramsay...
My Top Ten Playwriting Process Myth-Busters
This blog was first published in Summer 2016. I’m now almost at the end of my Arts Council England and Peggy Ramsay Foundation-funded Protected Time...
Digital and Theatrical Worlds: Finding a Path Ahead
(Audience take to the stage at Naked Lunch) This blog was originally published in April 2016. My last theatre visit at IETM couldn’t have been more...
Playwrights and ‘The Live’ in a Digital World: Can We Get Real?
This blog was originally published in April 2016. Would you prefer to watch a hologram of a human, who is beamed from another space, perform with a...
Dance our Imaginations: Worlds Without Words (How Did I Die and Blaas)
Unreliability of narrative creates a space for audiences to wonder. From whose perspective is the action before us being presented? Is the scaffold...
Generation Y: The Valorisation of Participation (or death of the passive spectator)
Let’s start with a couple of caveats. Firstly, I know there’s no such thing as a passive spectator. The very phrase is a tautology: to spectate is...
From Fighting to Frightening: Schwalbe Cheats and Horror #IETMAmsterdam
(Schwalbe Cheats: image from brakkegrond.nl/en/agenda/ietm-schwalbe) I’m thirteen years old. It’s dusk and the lights are on in a dilapidated scout...
Storytelling and Radicalisation: The Tale of Sadettin K.
This blog was first published in April 2016. Sadettin Kirmiziyüz has not radicalised. But he feels as though perhaps he should have, because...
Digital Politics: I Am Not Who You Say I Am
I’m on the bus from the airport and I’ve been reading the recommended literature for the IETM on the plane. This short ranty-blog is probably best...
So This Playwright Walks into a Live Art in Digital Times Conference…
Back in January, the nice people at Theatre Bristol advertised for a freelance delegate to join them in Amsterdam at one of this year’s IETMs:...
All About Seoul: Writing the Unwriteable
Tomorrow evening I fly to Seoul with director Sita Calvert-Ennals for a week-long research trip exploring the Korean Divided Families Reunion...
Lane’s List
Information, training and opportunities for UK playwrights
Lane’s List is totally brilliant. An invaluable resource. I wish that it had existed when I was just starting out when getting yourself involved in anything and everything is so important to getting your foot on the ladder.