Interview with David Lockwood @BikeShedTheatre
David Lockwood is the Artistic Director of the The Bike Shed Theatre, a small theatre in Exeter, with a fantastic bar that serves crisp cocktails surrounded by retro furniture including […]
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Writing with you
The Disappearance of Sadie Jones is a play. Written on page. By me…. But now that we’ve gone through our development, rehearsal and production process, it has become a performance […]
Progressive Dramaturgy
Learning the language of a play On our second night in residence at the Bike Shed Theatre, David Lane held a discussion on progressive dramaturgy, and the dramaturgical processes we […]
Playwriting and Dramaturgy
A couple of nights ago David Lane held a session at the Bike Shed theatre on dramaturgy and on how he worked with us on ‘The Disappearance of Sadie Jones’. […]
Interview with Stephanie Greer (Sadie Jones)
I met Stephanie nearly a year ago at the audition for ‘The Disappearance of Sadie Jones’ (then called ‘Hunger’). I thought she was great, but the role she was right […]
Working on Hunger
I’m working on Hunger at Beaford Arts in North Devon, with three actors: Alan Humphreys, Lizzie Crarer and Kathryn O’Reilly. We’ve also been visited by dramaturg David Lane and designer […]
Interview with Joanna Laurens
On Writing and Not Writing I’ve just written a column for Exeunt Magazine. One of the playwrights I mention is Joanna Laurens. Her first play, The Three Birds was on […]
Introducing ‘Hunger’
Hunger “I was immediately drawn in. There is intriguing word-play from the get-go and a sense that something intelligent and solid is underneath all the strangeness. I liked that it […]
New Writing vs New Work: Collaboration
PART TWO (of…) The ‘them and us’ polarisation set up in the title of the Capital Theatre Festival debate is precisely the polarisation that Alex Chisholm says is nonsense in […]
New Writing vs New Work: The backing track
(PART ONE) Thanks to my ranting and raving on this blog, Catherine Edwards of Capital Theatre Festival invited me to be on the panel of a debate at the Capital […]