Amazing news! We’ve hit our Kickstarter target. This means we’ll definitely be going to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August with Backstage in Biscuit Land.
Hitting our target’s been a huge relief – I had no idea how anxious the whole process was going to make me!…
It’s Friday and time for a quick Kickstarter update, we’re now at £4366! This is brilliant news, thanks to everyone who’s backed Backstage In Biscuit Land – the show we’re taking to the Edinburgh Fringe. But it’s all or nothing with this appeal so we have to reach our target or we get nothing!…
After five days our Kickstarter appeal has reached £3000 – half way to the total we need to take our show Backstage In Biscuit Land to the Edinburgh Fringe in August. This is brilliant, and an enormous thank you to everyone who’s backed us so far.…
So it’s Good Friday, why not do something great? I need your help getting my show on the road. Find out how here.
Having Tourettes means I’m rarely still or quiet. My tics go everywhere I go, and they’re often the first thing people notice about me.…
If you search online for ‘Tourettes Theatre’, many of the top results are articles about people being asked to leave theatres or sit somewhere else because they’ve got Tourettes – something I’ve had first-hand experience of.
I love the theatre, but for many years I was put off going for fear of negative reactions to my tics.…
25 years ago, in March 1989 a QED documentary, John’s Not Mad’ introduced Johnny Davison, a thoughtful and charismatic Scottish teenager with Tourettes, to the British public.
The programme showed the impact of Tourettes and of people’s reactions to it on John’s life.…
A few days ago comedian Jimmy Carr apparently made a lazy Tourettes joke on TV linking Tourettes to uncontrollable swearing. This wasn’t the first time for Jimmy, and a number of other comedians have made similar jokes recently. I’ve written before about why jokes that misrepresent the link between swearing and Tourettes are unhelpful and not funny.…
In September last year Touretteshero was awarded a Red Nose Day Grant. The funding came from The Evening Standard’s Dispossessed Fund and Comic Relief who’d teamed up to support London organisations working to improve mental and physical health and wellbeing.
This award’s been crucial in enabling us to continue to keep our website up and running.…
Today’s been a great day. The weather may have been utterly miserable, but I’m in a buoyant mood.
I ran a training session for front-of-house staff at Tate Britain in preparation for an event we’re putting on in collaboration with them.…
Just under three weeks ago I went to meet a team from Channel 4 who were embarking on an unusual project. They were looking for people with communication differences to announce some of their shows.
Before that meeting, I would’ve put ‘continuity announcer’ alongside ‘butcher’ and ‘living statue’ as jobs that my tics made it impossible for me to do, though of course I’m perfectly capable of making a clear, albeit biscuity, announcement.…
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