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For the last week or two my timeline’s been full of discussion about ‘All In A Row’, a play which opened this week at Southwark Playhouse.…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
As you may know, my tics rename Valentine’s Day pretty much every year, this year they’ve gone for:
“Happy Boot and Bear Day”
“Happy Thorn In Your Side Day”
and
“Happy Emotional Roller Coaster Afternoon”
They might make me sound quite cynical about a day that celebrates love, but I’m not.…
In the last week or so I’ve seen lots of memes, videos and photos online that relate to disability. All of these have shown ordinary moments in people’s lives – using a phone, having a dance, going to school or watching a football match.…
Online activism can be powerful, as campaigns like #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite have demonstrated. Hashtags like these can be especially useful in highlighting the shared experiences of a particular group and creating space for solidarity to be given and received. Crucially they can make abusive or oppressive behaviour visible, allowing it to be better understood and challenged.…
I’ve been staying with Fat Sister, King Russell and their young daughter Bean over the last few days.
Bean has lots of Duplo building bricks – in fact they used to be Fat Sister’s and mine. As a child I loved building towers and this picture shows Fat Sister and me with a particularly impressive construction.…
We’ve spent the last two weeks in Inverness working on our Hacks For The Future residential with eight disabled young creatives and two amazing associate artists, Heather Marshall and Aby Watson. We’ve been supported by a great team from Eden Court Theatre and from National Theatre Scotland who commissioned us to come and work in the Highlands as part of Futureproof, a creative celebration marking Scotland’s Year Of Young People.…
It’s Sunday evening, the end of a long and difficult week. But rather than feeling gloomy I feel hopeful, rescued by an incredible piece of theatre and a slice of my own advice.
The week kicked off with a hospital appointment I’d been anticipating ever since an MRI scan of my spine back in July showed some potential problems.…
I’m exhausted. Deeply, unrelentingly tired. But I’m also buzzing with joy, my brain awash with powerful, colourful memories of celebration and solidarity from the last few days of Brewing In Battersea.
Over two days and one night we mixed things up in Battersea Arts Centre’s Grand Hall.…
So, I knew we’d made a documentary. I’d put the very first budget together, been involved in choosing the team, chatted to camera several times and watched a number of different edits, providing detailed comments about each one. But it still felt very unreal when I saw our film listed on my TV guide.…
In November 2015, when a woman in a derelict building in west London started a countdown, my heart raced – as I’m sure a print-out from my pacemaker would testify. Kirsty Wark had just emerged from round a corner after finishing her very professional intro to the next piece of live theatre to air on BBC Four as part of Live from Television Centre.…
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