getting it wrong

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

So my play Babel's Cupid has just been announced as one of the three runners-up for the Yale Drama Series Prize 2021. Over the moon, me. Many thanks to judge Paula Vogel and Yale Drama Series, and …

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, …

[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 …

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 …

Here's our final Thought Residency thought #7, Piano Thought: Thanks for listening. 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 …

(Author’s note: I am, occasionally, a theatre critic.) Please do not use the phrase ‘self-indulgent.’ It will almost always be factually incorrect. You’re perfectly entitled to use the word …

Edit, 2018: so you might have arrived here because I've posted up a new mix of the DW theme. Good. Thanks. This post was all about my original take, back in 2015. Scroll down to the bottom of the …

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 …

To be clear, I made this chart for myself... (Click here for full-size readability fun.) I’ve been getting back into the frame of mind where I’m writing theatre for other people to produce. And I …