Yesterday I travelled back from D&D19 the annual 3 day convention on theatre and the performing arts which brings together 200-300 practitioners from around the UK. We were in the wonderful Warehouse of SlungLow and in the caring and heartfelt…
Tag: devoted and disgruntled
January – irons in the fire till Jan 26th…surprise
There’s something strange about January, well this January, my January – I feel in limbo. OK I know the whole Country is in limbo as we await the fate brought upon us by being asked to prefer yellow socks to…
Time for a change of life…
After an extraordinary masterclass in the life and work of solicitors and estate agents, Kath and I can honestly say out loud (and believe) that we will be leaving Suffolk on Tuesday after 11 years in Gothic House, and heading…
“chaos , confusion, conflict”…or open space and self-organise.
The following comes from Open Space facilitator Christine Koehler which she sent to the worldwide OS facilitator community recently. With her permission I wanted to share it with you. “I came across the story I wrote just after the Paris…
Be Kind and Wise in 2018
As 2017 is analysed and filed away, Kath and I are busily sorting out 40+ years of archives, lofts, photos and our individual and shared lives as we reduce (a bit) what we plan to move to our new home…
Clothing Optional performance for “Theatre Buffs”
The following is an article I wrote for The Stage, but they didn’t choose to report after this event – so here I share it as a blog: Hair / The Vaults / Sat 11th November 2017 As reported in…
Let the sun shine in – creative joy & collaboration
There’s a creakiness which pervades my creative bones at the start of the New Year. A time to catch up on emails, read a load of assignment submissions from producers, re-arrange the diary with meetings which were planned for “must…
Don’t lose them…they are part of the bigger picture
This week’s blog is exploring the challenges of running a large organisation with many bits to it. The ideal reader is someone who is part of a larger organisation and realises that they may not be getting it…
Devoted in Birmingham (and gruntled)
I have been away from blog-world for a month whilst focusing on a short commissioned e-book which will, I hope, come out in August. The first script is with my sternest critic and editorial expert, Kath, and then it will…
Embodied Conversations with Audiences
I have the memory of a sieve and I don’t read back my blogs. They become a stream of my life, and I am sure I repeat myself often. But hey ho, maybe each repeat reaches a slightly different audience.…