From Radical Self Love to Intersectionality via the Wheel of Consent – artist Rowan Prescott Hedley shows us their path to a theatre that is beyond binaries I’m sat on a slightly-too-upright stacking hotel chair, a bit too warm and in a stuffy room that’s not quite large enough for the number of people in […]
Writings
Joining the dots
May 26th, 2022 by Jamie WoodAs a performer, teacher and lifelong learner of all things clown, Jamie Wood muses on the bon mots of his own clown teachers and his peers My first clown workshop was in Liverpool when I was twenty. It was with a clown called Gerry Flanagan. I remember a young woman confessing her insecurity around how […]
Full Circle
May 26th, 2022 by Liza CoxA teenage encounter with Footsbarn sparks a series of adventures in physical and visual theatre for Baubo Theatre’s Liza Cox It was one of those endless summer evenings, with warm air that caressed bare legs. I remember the feeling of that breeze on knees and shoulders as I walked alongside the River Liffey to Dublin’s […]
The Hidden People
May 19th, 2022 by Dorothy Max PriorThe Hidden People is a co-production between British circus theatre company Hikapee and Icelandic theatre company Huldufugl (Hidden Bird). The show combines Icelandic folklore, aerial circus and physical performance, and creative technology. Here, three different voices offer their individual perspective on the UK premiere of the show, which took place at the Pavilion Theatre Worthing. […]
The Heroes in the Shadows
May 5th, 2022 by Eliezer KaserekaTheatre of the Oppressed practitioner Eliezer Kasereka explains just how crucial Augusto Boal’s trailblazing techniques are for bringing people in East Africa together in a theatrical process of peace and reconciliation ‘Although I was scared, hungry and thirsty I did not cry during the more than 40 days that they were with me in […]