Are you Edinburgh-bound? The festival looms so large over CPT’s world of theatre, we’re prone to forgetting that not everyone’s summer revolves around flirting with bankruptcy in the rain-soaked Scottish capital. For the artists we work with, the Fringe often takes on an almost magical significance: it’s an initiation rite for first-time artists and companies, it’s where careers – and new … Read more

Twitter, Tickets and Tea: The Life of a CPT Intern Have you ever been locked out of your email account for sending too many emails at once? I have. Five times. Now answer me this: Have you ever trapped yourself in window display because you made it look absolutely perfect and artistically beautiful but then realised you’d blocked the tiny … Read more

So we’re on the road again – though it’s just a little short one his time – heading to London and Camden People’s Theatre on 27-28 May, after performing on our home turf Leeds on the 26th. I’m sure you all have heard by now, but we’ll be heading to Edinburgh in August to do a FULL RUN AT THE … Read more

From the brilliant mind of Heidi Niemi  Diary entry 14/05/17 All is prepared. Everything so far has gone to plan. It is as I have foreseen it. All that is left for me to do is tie up the loose ends. I have dealt with the ‘director’ now that her purpose has been served. She can no longer stand in my way. But the boy… the … Read more

From the brilliant mind of Heidi Niemi Diary entry 07/05/17 Another fruitful week rehearsing my show. I now fully inhabit the world of Macbeth. He lives in me, and I in him. I survive on an hour’s sleep each day, dressed head to toe in armour, my sword forever at my side. My friends and family are nothing to me. … Read more

“Hello, you must be Robot. Please come in…” People deal with break-ups differently. David’s process: lots of sex and buy an organ. In the seven years he’s lived in London, David has owned six organs. These are Victorian Bellow organs, they’re huge. “I love my organ! And no, that isn’t a euphemism…” After the most recent break-up, David moved to … Read more

From the brilliant mind of Heidi Niemi Diary entry 01/05/17 The first week of rehearsals for my one-woman show MacBETTI are finished, and I must say they went spectacularly well, both professionally and personally. A lot of my time was spent exploring each role, allowing these people to come to life and making sure they are unique and dynamic. It … Read more

  On 14 Apr 2017, Greg Wohead wrote: I guess I wanted to start with some of what feels to me like the more obvious concerns and slight stresses I have around making Snowballing. I think it’s fair to say that this project is a continuation of a conversation we have been having between us for the past two-ish years … Read more

I’m Tammy WhyNot, country-western star turned lesbian performance artist, and I’ve been going all over everywhere trying to learn about getting older and having sex. I’m comin’ up to seventy myself and I’ve been noticing some things startin’ to change for me, so I wanted to talk to other people about what they thought about ageing and sex, intimacy, relationships, … Read more

“Do people treat you differently when they know what you do?” someone asked me recently after an hour of conversation. I said “no” but – reflecting on what usually happens when I meet new people, I’d like to answer the question again. “Yes, they do.” And what do I do? For 2 years I have been running a sex-positive, design-led … Read more