All over the papers, shops and even the Archers it’s that time when many of us prepare to go back to school. For me it’s going back after a 3 year gap to lead a new MA in Creativ…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:21AMOn 27th August 1975, playwright/director Julian Garner and I opened our first touring production with The Frog Company. We played at Ifield Barn Theatre near Crawley and then headed for a sh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:26PMMy last blog was 6th August and so I am offering two catch-ups. The first is a celebration list of all that I have done and seen since then. August is full of critical commentary and noise f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:54AMThere’s an immense fragility in making work, for many artists. For others it may appear impossible, and they want to wait for someone to invite them in so they can perform or strut the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:24PMThis week has been a mix of preparing papers to run the MA in Creative Producing at Mountview, taking on the co-ordination of the Producers’ Pool network, re-editing my own book “…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:04PMWe’ve just returned from 3 days under canvas in the blazing summer of Suffolk along with 38,000 other theatre, music, festival, beer lovers at Latitude. It was our first time and we sa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:16PMWe are moving swiftly towards Edinburgh Festival, the Camden Fringe now entering its 10th year under Zena and Michelle, and an amazing smorgesboard of good, great, and not quite to my taste …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:17AMThree things this week have reminded me of the very powerful, and very important, trust exercise which is called “Yes No Maybe”. It is used to start many couples and group work &…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:41AMAny medium scale regional theatre programmer with an interest in finding a local audience for modern dance would have been green with envy if they had joined me and hundreds of others to see…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:49AMIt was in May of last year that I started my first coaching sessions, and it’s about 12 months since my first pay-what-you-can clients signed up. In December I passed my diploma…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:26AMHave you ever stood up to do a talk, or been introduced to a business “suit”, and known that they don’t really take you seriously as a business leader. Even worse, have you sat with yo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMOver Friday and Saturday last week I did CGO Surgeries and coaching sessions with 16 different creative artists from London, UK, Montreal and Los Angeles. It is a time when each practitioner…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:28AMI’ve just returned from my first “Sausages at Dawn” meeting for a few weeks. It's a chance to sit with fellow freelancers and small business entrepreneurs over breakfast (healthy or ot…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:13AMThis week I did a session with each of the 70+ 2nd years in Musical Theatre, Acting and Actor Musicianship at Mountview. Just an hour, but we managed to pack it with lots of useful “st…
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