Recent Projects…
Escape.
Great to be working again with director and main man Daniel Anderson from Rights of Passage Productions on a new audio and animation project.
Escape tells the story of a young man from the Midlands who ends up in the world of county lines drugs gangs.
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fireside spoken word on the beach
Providing some banjo tunes for Sprout Spoken. This event brought performers and audience together by the fireside on Towan beach to mark the end of 2021 in style.
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Huers Hut, Cornwall
Live Spoken word event with Sprout Spoken on top of the iconic Huer’s in Newquay, Cornwall. What’s not to like….
What an incredible experience to play the lead busker in In Plain Sight directed by the wonderful Saul Hewish.
In Plain Sight is a site specific promenade performance, with food, about street homelessness, first performed at the B arts building in Stoke-on-Trent in January and February 2020. Created in partnership with colleagues at B arts, this piece was commissioned by Voices of Stoke-on-Trent who are responsible for co-ordinating services for rough sleepers across Stoke-on-Trent. The brief for the commission was to create an interactive, engaging piece of theatre (with songs!) that exposed some of the myths of homelessness and rough sleeping as well as exploring some of the factors that might inhibit an individual’s ability to access support when it is offered. The show was directly informed by approximately 50 anonymised case studies as well as in depth interviews with three people with lived experience of long-term street homelessness. These three individuals were also part of the final performance, working ‘in plain sight’ as ushers to help guide people around the building. Their involvement was only revealed at the end of the show, when large banners with their faces dropped down, and they made short statements attesting to the things that members of the public can do to help those living on the streets.
“I just couldn’t stop grinning. The trauma informed buskers! It was ingenious! Inspired! I knew I was going to enjoy the evening. If you’re unfamiliar with, or slightly alarmed by, the term trauma informed care, don’t be dissuaded from seeing this interactive, emotional roller-coaster of a performance. In a hilarious, informative and well-balanced manner it explores the predicament of Tash and Steve.
We are currently in discussion with B arts and Voices about future possible iterations of this work, both during and post Covid 19.
Speakout
Working as part of the Creative Research Collective in collaboration with the University of East Anglia.
A study of the experiences and identity development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people in care, and the support they receive.