Pledges For A More Equal Theatre
Straight off the bat I'm in a massive position of privilege and have benifitted from going through my life as a white man and that is the...
Diversity In Critics
Do we need more diversity in our cultural critics in the National Press? Yes. Obviously. Firstly the in-house critics are all white and,...
Our Place In The World (Not theirs)
I want writers and directors to be held to account for their bullshit representations of different communites around the world. I'm so...
Credit Due To Directors (& Actors) Of New Plays
I recently have finished two journeys of development: One a commission from new-writing Hull based collective Middle Child and the other...
Being Clever
Theatre, by definition, is about coming together as a community to share a story that explores a question - this could be anything from...
Commisioning.
Theatre should never be about a writer - it should be about telling this story, in this place, for this audience. Yet we say "Xs new...
What Cultural investment can do to communities (as seen in Hull).
So here we are.. Post Edinburgh. Firstly I'd like to say Thank You to everyone who went to see ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING. It was...