The Forest And The Field

Chris Goode is a friend and brilliant theatre-maker. He's articulacy par excellence about what matters, and if you don't know his bl...

Jimmy Stewart...

A premature announcement but what the hell. I'm collaborating in a theatre with the brilliant Nick Ryan, me and he as Ryan Stevens. I...

Weather is the great equaliser

To discuss the weather with a stranger is to shake hands and put aside your weapons. It is a sign of good will, an acknowledgement of your c...

Playing The Ashes

A few weeks ago, I spoke at Playful 09. When Toby Barnes talked to me about speaking, he asked me to propose something that interested me ra...

Frog; Saucepan

Thanks to Neillie for this most peculiar snapshot from another world, and musings on reality musicals. Posting this to remind me to keep mus...

A Small Town Anywhere

I mean to write more about this, I do. But right now prompted to correct an otherwise lovely Guardian article.For the record, A Small Town A...

Resolute is the new black

Challenge and Response

This is a promised response to Matt Trueman, whose blog is well worth tracking. He wrote at length about Rotozaza's autoteatro, and obse...

Scratch Manifesto

I was challenged in a cold-call from BAC on Friday. In the Scratch Festival themed on Democracy, they had persuaded Martin Linton, MP for Ba...

Manchester, so much to...

Just returning from a trip to a vibrant Manchester. I spoke on Friday morning at the International Talent Campus in the Festival, an inspiri...

The story of La Postmistress

I spoke at Shift Happens in York last week with Tim about A Small Town Anywhere. With her permission, I'd focused on the journey through...

The Pursuit of Happiness

I've been working recently with Paul Bennun, doing research commissioned by C4 Education to map the ballpark of happiness and mental hea...

Made

Here are some of the things I've been involved in making recently. Only some.EarpieceSpoiler alert. It's a little game about games. ...

Seen/Played

Here's a random volume of some of the stuff I've seen and played over the last 6 months. Only some, the stuff I most immediately rem...

'Ere I Am, JH

Here is me resolving to return to more regular blogging, less of a ghost in the machine. I've started some coaching with the excellent M...

Yikes

I've been remiss at posting here. I have a stack of thoughts and reports waiting.But just to quickly flag up I am making a small piece c...

The Moon, The Moon

Here's a link to a little online theatrical piece I've helped make recently. Click the image.It's theatrical because it is part ...

The best flashmob in the world?

Click the picture if you've not seen the BBC clip.Brilliant. Anyone can make their own Morph, and together they embody just what was gre...

Stuff seen and played

Not so much. I'm mostly lost in 24 DVD seasons when I am not working. My last DVD compulsion, The West Wing, felt like eating dark choco...

Screaming nostalgia

Late on a Friday night, the foxes screaming outside, inside my head screaming receipts. I'm blogging everywhere else for distraction so ...

Rehearsal photograph

from The Boston Globe

The Obamathon

I love Stoke Newington International Airport. Last night, a party which completed the celebration from the Election All-Nighter, with DJ'...

Stuff seen and played and not

Mind Out - Station House Opera @ BACAn aeon since I saw this. Andrew Haydon nailed it with 'Buster Keaton meets post-dramatic theatre...

NHS, D&D

Testing testing 1 2 3...Been a while since I've had a chance to be here. I broke my finger with a rather hubristic slip down stone-cold ...