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Every January for the last eleven years, Improbable Theatre has invited theatre makers to an open space event called Devoted & Disgruntled. Each year, they ask, “What are we going to do about theatre and the performing arts?” and 300 people gather to work on that question. Since my first London January, in 2014, I…
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What do you get when you combine verbatim interviews, improvisation, movement, original music, and a group of 9 new collaborators with rich cross-culture experiences? I don’t quite know yet – we’re still making it. It’s going to be on stage in the “Whose London Is It Anyway?” festival at Camden People’s Theatre in January. (Early…
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Two years and three months ago, I moved to London and shook up my whole life. I was ready for an adventure, and boy did I ever get one. I spent a few months running around the city, seeing loads of theatre, getting to know people and companies and venues here, going to festivals in Edinburgh…
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At D&D 9 in January 2014, an annual open space conference of theatremakers, I called a session on Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and verbatim theatre, hoping to find some candidates for interviews and get started making a piece. More than a dozen people responded to my invitation, others who had grown up in a mix…
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The GAP Salon was particularly busy this month! What a blast we had at the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival and the Etcetera Theatre’s first annual Womens’ Week! WOW Party at the Southbank Centre. GAP Salon partnered with Female Arts and the So and So Arts Club to throw a “WOW Party” with…
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Waiting for Summer at Camden Etcetera Theatre. My lovely friend Kate Baiden produced this evening of four short plays with Swivel Theatre, exploring themes of Arab women in revolution. The versatile cast of six women played all the roles across type and gender, with a standout performance from Dilek Rose as a hilarious and surprisingly…
AMY CLARE TASKER 