Breathing in and out.
Whaaaaa? It’s June and I haven’t written any news all year. This news section is pretty solipsistic tbh – kind of a public diary so I can remember what it is I’m doing – kind of a shoutout to the Arts Council, and everyone else who funds me, so that they know I”M STILL DOING…
Read MoreRapunzel has opened at the Egg
What a nice review. I saw a run a few weeks ago and was delighted by what the cast and creative team have done. This play written for my daughters when they were tiny will always be very close to my heart. It’s how I taught myself to write. It developed my style as a…
Read MoreNEW SHOW FINALLY IN THE MIX
THE HOME /2
So I can now reveal that I was a cast member of Christopher Green’s extraordinary, meticulous, tender, brutal 48 hour immersive experience THE HOME. A huge collaboration between Christopher, The Albany, Entelechy Arts. One of my favourite ever showbiz adventures. Anita has hung up her Chair Zumba outfit for now but will be resuming in…
Read MoreTHE HOME
Currently deep deep deep in collaborating with artistic polymath and style icon Christopher Green on his new immersive theatre show, the HOME, which is about care, care homes, vulnerability, political shenanigans, systems failures, quality, collectivity, joy, failure, and many other good things. It’s an honour and a privilege. http://christophergreen.net/home-experiential-entertainment-residential-care/
Read MoreAesop Opens Today!
Aesop at the Unicorn
Super happs to be one of the writers on this reimagining of Aesop by the Unicorn theatre – I’m doing one of the 4-7 ones and am in awesome company eg two of the Chrises- Goode and Thorpe – Somalia Seaton and many other cool persons. Directed by my homie Justin Audibert and Rachel Bagshaw.…
Read MoreOLD STREET
I love making shows about London and its ever shifting identities. Here’s one: OLD STREET by Bunny, who are Rachael Spence and Lisa Hammond. It’s about housing, community, gentrification, home, all told in their customary charming inclusive hilarious way. I’m delighted to be dramaturging on it for the next couple weeks. When I looked up…
Read MoreMY KIND OF MICHAEL
Also I’ve done a bit of storynerdery on this, the new(ish) – he opened it in Edinburgh last year – show from one of my faves, Nick Cassenbaum. It does Arts Depot on 16th May, then BAC on 21/22 May, then tours all over the place. Featuring Nick’s customary charm and warmth and ace storytelling,…
Read MoreWILD COUNTRY
This week’s dramaturgy, in my promiscuous dramaturgy phase, is back in with Edith Tankus, on Wild Country. You can catch a scratch of it at Pulse Festival at the end of the month, or at Folkestone Quarterhouse, or at Cambridge Junction Motherworks’ Festival. We’re working with the brilliant Laura Keefe, who directed Dennis of Penge…
Read MoreHUMAN JAM
Feel really really happy to have been asked by Brian Logan, artistic director of CPT, to do a bit of dramaturgy/story nerdery on his new show. It opens on 7th May-25th and you can find out ERRRRRRRTHING you need to know about it below. He’s made it with shapeshifting performance genius SHAMIRA TURNER and affable…
Read MoreVICTORY IS MINE
So in January I got a Developing Your Creative Practice Grant from ACE and I used it to pay myself a little bit whilst I smashed out the first three episodes of How (Not) to Live in Suburbia. This task of unsolicited TV writing, completed whilst working f/t, tryna keep it real, attempting to parent…
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