In 2012, Jon Haynes & David Woods decided that their next show would be a family drama. They quickly discovered that mental illness played a central role in both their lives, and set about investigating how their experiences could become theatre. A trip to Finland was pivotal to the making of the show. At a […]
Writings
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Ridiculusmus: The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland
March 8th, 2014 by Lisa Wolfe![](https://totaltheatre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IWishIWasLonely-Photo-JemimaYong.jpg)
Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe: I Wish I Was Lonely
March 7th, 2014 by Beccy SmithThis collaboration between Mancunian writer, director, and performer Chris Thorpe and poet and performer Hannah Jane Walker follows up their nationally touring hit The Oh F-ck Moment (2011/12), and once again casts identifiable experience through verbal and theatrical dexterity to re-mould our perspective on everyday life. The impossibility of loneliness, when contact is only ever […]
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bread&circuses: Wot? No Fish!!
March 6th, 2014 by Beccy SmithThe collaboration between writer/performer Danny Braveman and director Nick Philippou has been thirty years in the making. For much of that time Braveman has been working in community contexts including London Bubble and Theatre Royal Stratford East whilst Philippou has been honing his skills at Actors Touring Company and the RSC amongst others. The influence […]
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Lowri Evans: The Secret Life of You and Me
February 27th, 2014 by Marigold HughesLowri Evans has got a secret she can’t keep any longer: her life. Her secret life, no less. A scrapbook of memories; not only hers, but ours and everyone’s. A scrapbook that is already fading. All smiles and sparkles, Evans weaves us through threads of her childhood, of a long distance love affair between Brazil […]
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a smith: Two from a smith
February 25th, 2014 by Lisa WolfeAndy Smith is on a mission; he wants to change the world. He wants us to change the world, all of us, together, in this room. Smith is a writer, dramaturg and performer, most recently with Tim Crouch in what happens to the hope at the end of the evening, which he co-wrote. These two […]