The starting point for Progress was the feeling of failure- of the perpetual anxiety and misery that has spread like a pandemic amongst young people in contemporary society- and of wanting to make something that in some way embodied or expressed this. But a lot of the thinking and discussion in our early rehearsals seemed to gravitate towards friendship. I … Read more
These are our bodies. How do we look. How do you look? Night clubs are hugely significant to LGBTQ+ culture. Historically, they have been considered a safe haven where queer people can freely be who they are, together. This past means that the community often assigns it utopic status: a space of hope where all can express themselves without shame … Read more
Last time I was at Camden People’s theatre I was showing Kings Cross (REMIX) for the third year running. It was so great and kind of overwhelming to do it here, as it featured heavily in the stories that I tell in the show and is populated by the people in it. The show focuses on the 1980’s: an important … Read more
In January of this year, a couple of my favourite theatre makers came together to do a night of weird live art, performance stuff based off the work of Charli XCX. It was wild. Some people got bloody noses, told us how they wanted to fuck cars and at the end we all danced with the audience on the stage. … Read more
“But Amazon so convenient.” is a phrase we’ve heard from family, friends and colleagues when we told them about the new show we were making . “Amazon is easy. It’s quick. I get what I want the next day!”. And it’s true, we used Amazon before we started making Fulfilment and didn’t think much further when ordering ‘emergency UV paint’ for rehearsals … Read more
It’s one week away from the very first ever work in progress showings of my new show How To Live Dangerously at CPT. The show has been a couple of years in the making and I had the first idea for it waaay back in about 2010. So it feels like I have quite a lot invested in it. This … Read more
The way my dad tells it, when I was around eight, one day over the dinner table I just announced: “Words are my friends.” By that age I was already writing poems and stories, and taking an interest in etymology and Scrabble, and basically I was the sort of precocious punchable suck-up kid who would say that sort of thing. … Read more
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