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Apt day to try get back up to date with this website. Pre-pandemic I was fairly dutiful about posting show details and progress, but some how in the fallout of the last three years that kind of personal post has felt indulgent in a world where so … [Read more...]
I am looking for a Coventry or West Midlands based designer to work along side me on a major project for the Coventry City of Culture 21/RSC entitled ‘Faith’. Are you interested in helping with both costume and hands on installation work across the … [Read more...]
I realise that in all the frantic activity of last year and then the crisis of this I have neglected to write about this , the one project I have that you could actually go and see now !! For a long time I have been talking to the wonderful artist … [Read more...]
It is not often that I read a script and am gripped and surprised by the unfolding narrative but Al Blyth's play at Hampstead Theatre is a real page turner. The main challenge for the design was how to allow the story of GCHQ surveillance and the … [Read more...]
Some light at the end of the rabbit hole. My collaboration on the Alice exhibition at the V and A with Alan Farlie, Northover brown, ZNA , Gareth Fry and Luke Hall Studio is still going strong through the medium of Zoom. Although potentially delayed … [Read more...]
Like everybody in our industry I am still reeling from the impact of the closure of the theatres and all the postponed or cancelled projects. I am extremely blessed that so many of the organisations I have been working with have been honourable and … [Read more...]
This was written last year : In mid rehearsal for Steff Smith's radical version of Doll's house, set in three periods at once,1918,1968 and 2018 with three actresses playing Nora. Collaborating with Director Elizabeth Freestone, Movement … [Read more...]
Coming back to write about this one as i haven't had time this year to keep up. This production is now at the Barbican and will go out on tour in the new year. Another collaboration with Erica Whyman looking at this play afresh examining the … [Read more...]
Playing catch up at the moment after a week with 4 openings in , this has been a very busy autumn full of a fantastic variety of projects! So White Teeth has been in gestation for many years now with Stephen Sharkey and Indhu Rubasingham working in … [Read more...]
Michael Boyd and I have returned to this epic text in his specially adapted version. We created a production for TFANA in Brooklyn in 2014 and have now moved on to the Swan in Stratford. As always when working with Michael the production develops and … [Read more...]
