I am in the early developmental stages of a first draft of a tribunal play based on the Rivonia Trial court transcripts. Referred to as "the trial that changed South Africa,”in Oct 1963, opponents of Apartheid including Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki & Walter Sisulu went on trial for sabotage. A 'tribunal play' is a verbatim [...]
A new £720k grant launched in Kenya & Liverpool as part of Newton Fund’s UK-Kenya Joint Partnership on Non-Communicable Diseases Launched at KEMRI in Nairobi last week and in Liverpool on 23 January 2019, TUPUMUE, or let’s breathe in Swahili, is a partnership between LSTM and the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI(link is external)). and is jointly funded [...]
As part of the delivery, I have been asked to facilitate for this project to deliver a co-created field-based epidemiological study in two contrasting sites in Kenya - Mukuru and Buruburu - that will characterise the clinical characteristics and lung function of children aged 5-18 years. This will be accomplished through the use of participatory [...]
9 to 13 July 2018 The Arts Council England has just invested in a week-long exploration workshop of Commedia dell'Arte that I am producing. The facilitator will be Mitch Mitchelson whom I got to know as both of us taught at St. Mary’s University in London. The weeklong ‘Phase I Commedia dell'Arte’ workshop will culminate with a [...]
My new play, co-written with Peter Norgate, Send Them All Back is having its first public rehearsed reading in London at the Museum of Comedy, Leicester Square Theatre on 6 July at 2.30pm. Free tickets can be reserved in advance by following this link: RSVP The Story: Britain isn’t working and something has to be [...]
As part of the Nelson Mandela: The Centenary Exhibition 2018 at the Southbank Centre in London, The Robben Island Shakespeare will be performed on 11 August at 7.30pm. This reading and the wider event marks the 2018 centenary of iconic leader Nelson Mandela’s birth in this exhibition about his life, career, and commitment to equality [...]
I was invited to present at the Applying Shakespeare Symposium at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. My presentation examined and detailed my work in 'Ethical Leadership' using the play, The Robben Island Shakespeare. Through the words of William Shakespeare & former South African political prisoners, the aim of the workshop is to inspire the participants to create [...]
Comic produced for project by Louis Netter (University of Portsmouth). The Stockholm Environment Institute is leading a new partnership bringing together African and European researchers, practitioners and community members interested in air pollution in low-resource settings in sub-Saharan Africa. The AIR (Action for Interdisciplinary Air Pollution Research) Network has been awarded £169,000 by the Medical [...]
During the Apartheid years in South Africa, a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare was smuggled around the prison on Robben Island. The book's significance resides in the fact that the book's owner, Sonny Venkatratham, passed it to a number of his fellow political prisoners in the single cells, including Nelson Mandela, asking [...]
Ubuntu’ is a phrase widely used in southern Africa, meaning the ‘universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity’.Come and celebrate the enduring soul of South Africa, and the shared connections its history inspires, through an evening of music, performance and workshops. Grab a drink at the bar, enjoy themed food, and discover more about [...]