I’m working with Dog Kennel Hill Project this weekend. Their ‘People Working’ is a peformance tour around The Place’s building. The Place is celebrating its 40th birthday and this tour runs 5 times over the weekend, taking an audience of 10 through the basements, offices, cupboards and rooms of the building. In each performers ‘work’. For…
Kristin Fredricksson of Beady Eye and I have been working together on a project which remains in development. The initial idea sprang from stories from older people, before migrating to a preoccupation with archiving movement. Once invited to scratch a performance at Margate’s Theatre Royal, Kristin and I decided we would concentrate on using older…
Rosemary Lee’s Common Dance for this year’s Dance Umbrella festival was a big success – sold out at Gda every performance with long waiting list for returns, it was a shame more people couldn’t share what was, we were told by many, a ‘moving’ and ‘powerful’ experience. The Guardian’s Sanjoy Roy reviewed it with four…
I am making a solo show which not only aims to serve as practice in order to research the application of Brecht’s concept of Gestus but also tells the story of one good woman turned sour by the memory of one man. It is has a Hollywood frame, circa 1940s and uses Brecht’s The Good…
I spent two weeks training at Moscow Art Theatre in late May. The exchange programme between MAT and University of Kent runs each year with up to a dozen students from MAT spending time in the Drama department in Canterbury in early May before an exchange later in the month. Set up by Stanislavski in 1897,…