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I’m writing this on my way to the second week of rehearsals for HOT (Helen of Troy). I’m stuck in traffic on the North Circular with a dozen boxes in the back of the car — oh, don’t worry, someone else is driving — and thinking about the best way to assemble the set pieces…
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Collaboration is brilliant. And necessary. Even on a solo show. Maybe especially on a solo show. Yesterday, four intelligent and generous artists listened to me read the new script of The Helen Project for one hour and 22 minutes (yikes/oops/thank you) and then shared their thoughts, questions, dramaturgical insights, and encouragement. I went home excited…
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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…
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Guleraana and I are back in London, after a whirlwind week at the Families in Global Transition conference in The Hague, Netherlands. It was an inspiring, identity-affirming, provocative, exhausting few days with hundreds of fellow cross-culture people, educators, psychologists, researchers, writers, and others who work with globally-mobile communities. Our tribe. We presented some video and…
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What a milestone! Home Is Where… finally had its first full-length performance on 2nd September at Rich Mix, a fantastically supportive and welcoming multi-arts venue in East London. Huge thanks are due to the wonderful team there, and of course to the extremely dedicated and talented cast and creative team of Home Is Where…: writer Guleraana…
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It’s been a couple of weeks since our final devising session of the summer, and we’ve said goodbye for now to our wonderful and generous friends at Kings Place Music Foundation, who welcomed us for six weeks of testing out new performance techniques, developing characters, and knitting together our creative team. I detailed our progress…
AMY CLARE TASKER 