Big Ideas
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The last four days have been so intense. We’ve been having deep discussions about race, gender, sexuality, and representation. There are twenty directors in the Lab, several of us with international backgrounds, and everyone approaching the topic with a different set of personal experiences and familiarity with systems of oppression in the USA. The conversations…
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I said I wouldn’t be getting up at 6AM everyday to blog during the Lab… but it turns out 6AM is the magic jet lag time on this trip, and so I am up, and I have a billion thoughts flashing through my brain, and so here I am writing a few things down. This…
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Lately I’ve been feeling like I’m on the brink of something extraordinary. It’s a surprisingly calm feeling – I am beyond excited, but I also feel focused and centred. Ready. For a long time, I’ve felt that my best strategy as an artist was to have many plates spinning, so that eventually one of these…
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This article was originally published on HowlRound on 5 March 2018. Can vision be collaborative? How can I balance inclusivity, safety, quality, and rigor? Why do I keep trying to make collaborative work, when it seems so much slower and more difficult than doing it myself? I’ve been asking myself these questions for the last ten years…
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Every year for the last 13 years, Improbable has asked the question, ‘What are we going to do about theatre and the performing arts?’ Their invitation brings hundreds of theatre makers together at an event called Devoted & Disgruntled, and provides the liberating and inclusive format of Open Space to enable necessary conversations to happen.…
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It’s September, and London theatre is starting to come back to life after the last few months of sunny picnics, school holidays, and of course the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The summer already seems like a dream, but before it slips away entirely, I wanted to chronicle the eventful few months I’ve had. In June… The…