I am producing a virtual theatre festival, The Peacock Theatre Festival of Civil Liberties, as part of wider solidarity against any such authoritarian creep in the UK and abroad. The name of the festival derives from the phrase that is used to describe the creep currently occurring in Hungary under Viktor Orban. As he explains, [...]
As a co-facilitator for the Monobox Maker's Workshops, Rebecca Bogue & I will be creatively discussing and actioning artistic responses to the ongoing [and future] limitations on our civil liberties due to Corona Virus measures. For more information, please visit: https://monobox.as.me/schedule.php?appointmentType=13901781
I have been selected to be part of the Mercury Theatre Creative Programme for the next twelve months as part of the European Regional Development Fund. The Mercury Creative Programme offers training and mentoring for self-employed people working in the creative industries.
On Thursday 13 February 2020, at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury, imPEACHable, my latest tribunal play based on the private and public transcripts of the ongoing impeachment trial of the President of the United States, will be performed as part of the South by Southeast Festival. The play examines the central tenet of the trials, [...]
On Tuesday, 19 November 2019, at the Eleto Chocolate Cafe in Folkestone, I presented my latest tribunal play based on the private and public transcripts of the ongoing impeachment trial of the President of the United States. The play examines the central tenet of the trials, that is, whether there was a 'Quid Pro Quo' offer [...]
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. As part of the project, I will be serving as a theatre for development specialist and delivering interactive theatre projects for it. Launched at KEMRI in Nairobi last week and in Liverpool on 23 January [...]
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 [...]