The themes of the performance are many. Someone might argue that that is a cop-out of an answer. But how can you distil an autobiographical piece into one single theme? It represents a (time in your) life, and whose life only has one theme? So Ophelia Rewound is about many things; it begins at the point of suicide and talks … Read more
I wrote ‘Where is Ban Ki-moon?’ initially as a fifteen-minute piece under duress, because I had to for my degree. I still see forcing plays out of someone as a profound attack on their human rights, especially when they are, like me, a bit lazy when it comes to writing plays. It’s a form of discrimination, really. I’m very happy … Read more
Using personal experience in our most recent show Lovely Girls has had big challenges. As two women, we questioned whether our stories were relevant or interesting. We had never had it with our previous shows at all. When our stories were linked to our experiences of being women, we questioned things – ‘maybe it wasn’t that bad’ ‘maybe it’s not … Read more
Bad Aunts Blog, Camden People’s Theatre Following a sell-out run at the Brighton Fringe, the Bad Aunts are at Camden People’s Theatre for one night only before they head to the Edinburgh Fringe. Catch them in their living room on 27 July at 19.15! Eloïse Poulton & Elinor Lipman, Writers Bad Aunts is inspired by sitcoms and chat shows we … Read more
Women make up 50 percent of the world’s population, okay 49.549 percent if you wanna get all technical, but when it comes to recorded history, women only occupy around 0.5 percent. Let that sink in. As actor-musicians, we are driven to reflect on our relationship with the past, and our connection to the stories and musical traditions that have come … Read more
And so the Edinburgh Fringe rolls around again – despite stiff competition from CPT, still the most intense hit of new theatre and performance, anywhere. Team CPT is girding itself for a trip north – although how that will square with our general manager James’s new veganism is anyone’s guess. The shows we’re stoked about are too many to list … Read more
Moving towards the end of our R&D with Town Hall, this morning we’ll run together all we’ve done so far and explore its rhythms and surprises, where it’s clear, and think about the how of the many moments when we will be with our audience for the first time, in just two days, on Sunday 16th. This is maybe the … Read more
In 2016 high street chain British Home Stores was closing down. The pensions of 22,000 BHS employees were in jeopardy because the pension fund had been allowed to go into debt during the chain’s ownership by Sir Phil Green, a man described by some as “the unacceptable face of capitalism”. This seemed to me an appalling state of affairs. People … Read more
What representation meant to us: Om Shanti F*ck by Natasha Kathi-Chandra: I was working the confines of a Monday to Friday , whilst still working within theatre teaching on a Saturday and by Sunday morning I was utterly exhausted and extremely opposed to attending this writers workshop I had signed up for ages ago. With the right support and encouragement … Read more
“In the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.” – Elizabeth I When we started toying with the idea of making a show centred on virginity, we had no idea why the word ‘virginity’ existed. We didn’t know the reason for its … Read more