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How (can) we ask people to act?
On Sunday I gave a provocation at a Salon hosted by Coney at Camden People’s Theatre, introduced by the lovely Tom Frankland (pictured). I was invited to respond to the question ‘how (can) we ask...
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A Conversation With My Father: final, Bradford week.
I’ve been trying to write this blog post for a long time. 3 weeks or so. OK, so not AGES, but a while. A bit. It has a title: “A Conversation With My Father: final, Bradford week”. But I’m not really...
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Announcing… The LAST EVER (for now) PERFORMANCE IN THE PUB
Facebook event! Eventbrite link!
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Tour dates
1) LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL POSTER. 2) READ WHAT IS WRITTEN UNDERNEATH IT. A Conversation with my Father is doing 4 preview dates before 9 days in Edinburgh as part of Northern Stage’s St. Stephen’s...
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh’s a place, as well as shorthand for a big old festival. Edinburgh is a place where the population doubles in August each year. Where overdrafts go to be extended, where new bits of theatre,...
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A Conversation With My Father, post Edinburgh Festival 2013.
Well, I did it. I’m sitting on the train back from what feels like 6 months of quite substantial things. Moving to London, having never really lived in a city. Running a marathon across a mountain....
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Songs For Breaking Britain
THE MOST EXCITING THING I’ve been able to feel excited about for a while, I’m totally delighted to announce that the Arts Council has decided to support the making of a new show of mine via their...
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Songs For Breaking Britain at Ovalhouse 6-9th Nov
Look! It’s me! And Sean and Keir! Being people who make music and tell stories together! We’re currently on day 5 of 5 days making a 20 minute show from scratch – Songs For Breaking Britain. We...
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Towards hope, new conversations, carrying on.
Yesterday I gave a talk to a group of City University students. I was invited to talk to the cultural studies course members by Dr Dave O’Brien about 3 things; firstly my thoughts on (not) digital...
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It’s hard to be human, isn’t it?
It’s a bitterly cold, drizzly grey day in Stockton-on-Tees, and I’m walking as I talk to Naz (with a zed) about the place she’s from. It’s colder than I expected, somehow I never believe the UK to be...
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Songs For Breaking Britain comes to London on the 5th of OCTOBER – its first fully-fledged outing since the end of making it in March. Except it’s always being made – the show gets re-made every city...
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No More Heroes
Image shared by Nico Hogg on flickr via CC I am sat on a bus. Except I’m not. Because actually my charger broke for my phone a day ago. So when I’m having this thought, I’m on a bus. Even though right...
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Ironman is go!
I AM MAKING A SHOW ABOUT SPORT IT IS EXCITING. This is a long overdue update because most of the updating on this has been via a new subdomain I set up for Ironman especially. And all my new writing is...
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Our Heart Is Here
This is from Brixton where the local people are currently fighting to save the arches. Where at the weekend a young man old boy dressed all in black smashed the window of a Foxtons. I condone this...
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A Year in Review: 2015
I’ve been feeling exhausted, all told. I’ve been ignoring my own advice, part through necessity, part through illness and injury, part through late capitalism’s construction of freelance work and it’s...
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