I feel a gentle sense of ending a chapter this weekend as I prepare to move to turn a page with the start of the MA in Creative Producing at Mountview. [The pic above is from the walk to Mountview through…
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Back to School – but first a week of new experiences
All over the papers, shops and even the Archers it’s that time when many of us prepare to go back to school. For me it’s going back after a 3 year gap to lead a new MA in Creative Producing…
Revealing yourself with care
This week has been a mix of preparing papers to run the MA in Creative Producing at Mountview, taking on the co-ordination of the Producers’ Pool network, re-editing my own book “Your Life in Theatre” and going to celebrate the…
What’s the secret of the Christmas Card List ?
This week I did a session with each of the 70+ 2nd years in Musical Theatre, Acting and Actor Musicianship at Mountview. Just an hour, but we managed to pack it with lots of useful “stuff” to help them as…
Musical Theatre – Japan and Malaysia exploring
It’s Sunday and I am settled in a café at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPAC) shortly to meet the director of “Cabaret” before seeing the show in the black box space. In the other theatre there is Dama…
23 New Creative Theatre Producers in one room
My third blog from The National Student Drama Festival – this time cheering the role of Creative Producers, the lovely opportunity to make connections, and the rather unexpected claim from one panelist that there were no such thing as producers…
National Student Drama Feast
Thank you to NSDF for existing. A wonderful coming together of young passion for the arts; alongside wise saws and slippered pantaloons offering their support, encouragement, cheers, and critiques to the next generation of theatremakers.
From Jabberwocky to NSDF, Darlington to Scarborough
I can’t believe I have never been to the National Student Drama Festival. I first met the founder, Clive Wolfe, when I was at Bristol starting the British Universities Shakespeare Company. He was wise and kind. But we met it…
Preaching to the diverted – in acting and business
Once in a while I write a title and then wonder where that came from. What do I mean by “preaching to the diverted” and why today, why now. It has to do with actors going to audition, people going…
What can you teach creatives ?….
I’ve just come from a board meeting for Metta Theatre where one of my colleagues has just done the leadership course with the Clore Foundation. Yesterday I finished work with the now defunct, but previously highly regarded, MA in Arts…