Being There: one of an occasional series for Total Theatre Magazine in which an artist and a witness reflect on their different perspectives. Here, writer and performer Bernadette Russell and her first one-on-one audience member Dorothy Max Prior explore the debut outing for BED Dorothy Max Prior writes: Bernadette Russell’s new show – she […]
Features
Voices: Producer Jo Crowley of 1927
May 24th, 2015 by Jo CrowleyVoices is an occasional feature series that gives the stage to someone making a mark in the ‘total theatre’ world. Here, we feature 1927’s Jo Crowley, who tells us about her role as the company’s producer I never set out to be a producer. When I started working, producers tended only to exist in the commercial […]
Burn Baby Burn: Periplum’s 451
May 11th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorIt’s 8.30pm on a cool and breezy, but thankfully dry, evening in April. A crowd is gathering in the grounds of Shaw House in Berkshire. The house itself is an Elizabethan mansion, providing a moody backdrop to the cluster of structures standing in the gardens. Furthest away from the house is a grouping of tall […]
Sex, Cancer and Cocktails – Points of View
April 20th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorDorothy Max Prior weaves together reflections from Carran Waterfield in Manchester, Lisa Wolfe in Brighton, and artist/facilitator Brian Lobel to Sex, Cancer and Cocktails, an ‘in-home conversation about doing it during treatment’ which was presented at Sick! Festival 2015. SICK! Festival, which for its 2015 incarnation ran in both Brighton and Manchester, is dedicated to ‘revealing […]
Shame, Shame, Shame
March 12th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorWhat do you know about sex? How do you know it? Dorothy Max Prior sees two shows at Sick! festival that are presented as part of the Wellcome Collection Sexology Season – and joins in the ensuing post-show discussions So You Can Feel: the opening show in Sick! Festival 2015. The house lights are still […]