Being inspired by a live performance

March 8, 2017

The other day I had the joy of seeing a live performance of Matthew Bourne’s ‘Early Adventures’ at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry. Not only was I blown away by the dexterity of the dancers, the cheekiness of the characters and the sheer brilliance of...

Immersive Theatre – How Theatre companies do it

February 20, 2017

Last week I went to the theatre to see a play that a friend had written. It was being performed at my local theatre in Coventry, The Belgrade. As I had not taken my mum to the theatre for a while, I thought it would be nice to get her a ticket too. All we knew about...

Resources for Realism

January 4, 2017

Recently a friend asked me what the difference was between emotional recall and sensory memory. This was an interesting one for me to answer, as ultimately they are the same thing but rooted in the ideologies of two different theorists – Stanislavsky and...

Realism and theorists

January 3, 2017

When approaching devising, directing and the solo theatre piece, the question about who your theorist will be in a huge conundrum. For many students out there I know you are familiar with realism, love and and maybe want to focus on it for your chosen theorist. Also...

Necessary theatre – Complicite

December 12, 2016

When you start to make a piece of theatre do you ask yourself why you are doing this? What is the point of it? What do you really want to say? What needs to be said? Why? Why now? And….have I got my facts right? These are questions that are addressed by Complicite...

Working with Laban technique

December 7, 2016

Recently I have been working in schools in Singapore, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka, and one thing I did with the students was explore ways into theatre creation and character work using some Laban technique. This blog will outline some of the ways in to using movement as a...