I’ve never been able to afford therapy but I’ve always had this all-consuming drive to put images together on a stage. My early work was abstract and focused on atmosphere and the moving body, but this has developed into the telling of stories and the poignancy of words, as well as images. I wasn’t always aware that I was … Read more
Growing up with epilepsy can often be isolating and full of misinformation, the focus of care is usually on enabling parents or carers to feel medically prepared to support a young person during a seizure. But, there’s a lot of other things happening at the same time. While people around me were worrying about my brain I was worried about … Read more
Hello, I’m Holly. How are you? Good, I hope. But if you’re not maybe you’re feeling a bit stressed like me. Or tired. (I’m usually one of the two.) I’m beginning this blog post feeling stressed because I forgot I was meant to write the bastard ‘til I looked in my diary, and I’m also meant to leave my mate’s … Read more
Here Comes The Sun is a promise, an inevitable destination. It’s a work which puts non-binary politics into adjacency with climate catastrophe and populates the gaps with fantasies, desires, memories and dreams in ways that are hopeful and pessimistic, sarcastic and sincere. It’s not, contrary to some, a Beatles Jukebox Musical – sorry. The 15 million degree question at the … Read more
By Ryan O’Shea I am always inspired by objects when making theatre – I really like physically picking stuff up and having a good ole’ play with it. I R A N started in my mind with a treadmill – there was something about running really fast but being completely still that captured my imagination. I started to think about … Read more
Will we? Won’t we? Deal – or no deal? At the time of writing, who knows how Brexit will turn out, and whether we’ll be exiting the EU, after all, on the long appointed date of Friday 29th March. Either way, Camden People’s Theatre will be marking the fateful date, with a for-one-night-only spectacular starring our best-loved artists. It’ll be part … Read more
By Sean Mahoney Before the show: Some writers can put everything in a three-minute poem. Some can’t. You watch them tell a story that rests on the periphery of a much larger world they’re building up courage and skill to tell us about, and you hope the opportunity to tell it lines up with their confidence to write it. These … Read more
I Need to Cher is a five-part induction course into why Cher is the most important pop icon of the 21st Century, culminating in a graduation ceremony where audience members ride cannons in little sailor hats and listen to Turn Back Time. Combining, drag, dance, wrestling, comedy, and an extensively researched power point presentation spanning six decades – I Need … Read more
This is a work in progress. Not because it’s not finished. But because it will never be finished. This began 5 years ago. The began 3 years ago. This began 1 year ago. This began 6 months ago. This began last weekend. Every time we do this show it’s different. It’s written anew. With new people, new stories, new issues, … Read more
I dreamed of being an author but anything I wrote never felt complete until it was shared, out loud. I spent ten years reciting three minute poems behind microphones, but could never stand still. I had the job I thought I always wanted but spent every morning with “what if, what if, what if” playing through my brain to the … Read more