articles by Tanuja

A long time ago, in a galaxy of hope and possibility… We devised a creative exercise that we called ‘The Thirty’. Essentially, it was the two of us talking through a list of 30 ideas that we felt …

A few months back, I was invited by Maddy Costa and the Dramaturg’s Network to speak on a panel about “Diaspora Dramaturgies”. I still don’t really know what that term means (and perhaps it’s …

Last year I was lucky enough to be awarded an Industry Fellowship on the Bristol & Bath Creative Cluster Expanded Performance programme. Yeah, it's a mouthful... basically it meant I was part of a …

The peeps at Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio invited me to do a lunchtime talk for them over summer. I've been banging on forever about how the theatre industry (and wider arts/creative worlds …

Last year, Tim and I wrote an Ethical Policy for Sleepdogs*. I’ve been meaning to post it up for months, and today it feels like my non-negotiable duty to share anything that stands up for y’know, …

Last Saturday, I spent the day with our brilliant friend and collaborator Sharon Clark, and wor Tim, in the Residence space, for a day of peer mentoring / problem solving / critical reflection. I’ve …

It's late in Week 4 of our Sura Medura residency. If last week was all about beats, tunes and noise; then this week’s been all about orchestral composing, performance text and the sea. Also a whole …

So we’ve come to Sri Lanka, and we’re staying right by the sea, and now we’re working almost entirely on laptops with headphones. Our fellow artists here must think we’re nuts. To be clear, there’s …

One of the main drives of these Sura Medura residencies is to push and take risks with our practice. The residencies are hosted by Neil Butler, who’s got strong form in making and producing radical …

I think it was 2014, at the caravan showcase, when Bettina Linstrum first mentioned the Sura Medura residency project to us. Now it’s February 2018, and here we are, towards the end of Week 1 of a …

Here's Thought Residency thought #5, Mainstream Thought: Our November 2017 Thought Residency was commissioned by MAYK, as part of the their Thought Residency series.

Here's Thought Residency thought #4, Thoughts Thought: Our November 2017 Thought Residency was commissioned by MAYK, as part of the their Thought Residency series.

Here's Thought Residency thought #2, Awesome Thought: Our November 2017 Thought Residency was commissioned by MAYK, as part of the their Thought Residency series.

We had a conversation with Bristol producing team, MAYK, a little while back, which went something like this: Team MAYK: "Some colleagues in Canada do this thing called Thought Residencies. We talked …

When I was kid, I dreamed of being a film star (obviously). And in those fantasies, I pictured my adult film star self as having white skin. This didn’t at the time strike me as weird or odd in any …

This is part of a series of blogs about influences on Dark Land Light House. I was giving a lecture to a student group recently, and talked about the integrated interdisciplinary process of …

This is part of a series of blogs about influences on Dark Land Light House. Again, Alien is a big influence in terms of fear and psychological horror. As are HP Lovecraft’s paranoid stories of …

This is part of a series of blogs about influences on Dark Land Light House. [N.B. this posts includes a few minor spoilers about the Alien film series] DLLH is definitely existential science-fiction …

This is part of a series of blogs about influences on Dark Land Light House. For me and Tim, sound and music are often built into the foundation of our ideas. Tim’s already written about how …

Thing is, I like working from scripts. I don’t much care what format the script comes in, or whether it’s in the right order, and I’m never averse to suggesting abstractions or deletions; but the …

With The Bullet And The Bass Trombone about to hit the Caravan showcase at Brighton Festival, we thought it might be interesting to dig out this blog interview we did before the first previews of the …