ethics and that

ethics and that

Feb 21, 2025

Don't Give Up: being a caring artist in a capitalist world – part 2

I’ve been working on a kind of self-help tract for my own self, to reconcile some of the contradictions of being a caring artist in the shadow of capitalism. This is the second notebook post on the …
Dec 8, 2024

Don't Give Up: being a caring artist in a capitalist world – part 1

Since late lockdown, I’ve been working on a kind of self-help tract for my own self, to reconcile some of the contradictions of being a caring artist in the shadow of capitalism. For a while I …
May 29, 2021

Feeling Being

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 …
Apr 18, 2021

Some Cause For Hope

It's been a tough year for anyone working in the performing arts, and I want to pick apart something I'm hearing more and more, especially as theatres announce their re-opening programmes and …
Dec 13, 2019

"A man's gotta have a code."

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, …
Sep 27, 2018

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Power

[EDIT, 2021. This article from 2018 contains thoughts and reflections on the practice of Chris Goode, who at the time was horrendously abusing many people involved in his work, and beyond. But I've …
May 28, 2017

Wrong kind of Asian, wrong kind of work

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 …
Dec 16, 2014

Why not / because usually / what else

Oh hello. Well, a while back you might have seen Rupert Christiansen’s Telegraph blog on the subject of women in theatre. If not, here it is. I’m not going to get rude about Mr Christiansen’s …