Friday, June 29, 2018
Some of the reviewers of It’s Only Life still seem to talk of John Bucchino as an unknown American songwriter, which is a shame – let’s hope this production is the start of an awakenin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, May 20, 2018
There is money out there to make projects happen. There are people with phenomenal expertise out there who can help. If you are interested in them, and what they are doing, and why they migh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, March 26, 2018
It has been nearly two months since my last blog during which time Kath, her mother, and I have moved from Suffolk to the village of Blackness on the Firth of Forth to the west of Edinburgh.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, January 31, 2018
After an extraordinary masterclass in the life and work of solicitors and estate agents, Kath and I can honestly say out loud (and believe) that we will be leaving Suffolk on Tuesday after 1…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
It’s rare for my wife Kath and I to work together to put on a show. We did a rather special site responsive project in central London some years ago which had a cast of around 40, two spac…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, January 6, 2018
As 2017 is analysed and filed away, Kath and I are busily sorting out 40+ years of archives, lofts, photos and our individual and shared lives as we reduce (a bit) what we plan to move to ou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, December 17, 2017
As reported in The Sun this week, the company of Hair at the Vaults invited us to organize a performance of the show where the audience would arrive and enjoy the show (and the bar) clothing…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, November 19, 2017
I seem to have had a couple of weeks of creating and being in spaces where extraordinary and unexpected things can happen.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, October 25, 2017
I was at a Shadows workshop at the weekend with the amazing and challenging Jamie Catto, who is Insanely Gifted. I had the privilege to work with 12 of the Authentic Artists who are on a two…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSunday, October 15, 2017
Last week was a rather extraordinary and rich week of theatremaking and spaceholding. It started with a joyful evening of fun cabaret created by West End Frenchies and managed by our alum Mo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, October 5, 2017
Along with a wealth of wise words and inspirational texts, there are a few people who just inspire me by capturing in a simple way what I need to know at any point in my life.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, September 30, 2017
Freshers week at Mountview is complete and 12 producers from UK, Peru, Spain and Greece are now settled down in Wood Green with assignments, projects, lectures and meetings packing their liv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSaturday, September 9, 2017
Behind every one of the 3000 plus companies of theatrical giants centre stage at Edinburgh Fringe there is a small team of staff at a special centre dedicated to their wellbeing.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, August 25, 2017
In our final two days at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and International Festival I caught 6 shows and missed one. My apologies to my colleague from my very early days in Edinburgh, Rob…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, August 22, 2017
I ask again: how do critics do it? Seeing shows, meeting people and finding time to write. Anyway, here is a catch up on a few shows I have seen over a weekend of Fringe Breakfasts, CGO Surg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, August 19, 2017
After five days away, we are back for another week of theatregoing, along with 20 panels, workshops, surgeries and meets. May I recommend living in Portobello during the Festival? Swimming …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMTuesday, August 8, 2017
A quieter day at EdFringe as I moved around the City, which is packed with theatremakers looking for theatregoers, theatregoers dodging the showers between tourists, tourists looking at vist…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMMonday, August 7, 2017
This was planned as an eight-show day – which is eminently possible on the Fringe, but in the end, I abandoned a cross city walk to one show, and saw seven. Here are thoughts and recommend…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, August 6, 2017
By chance of the calendar, I’ve seen five solo shows back to back, and they all offered me different insights into the art of this truly difficult theatrical form, and the nature of life, …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSaturday, August 5, 2017
I only saw four shows yesterday and used the rest of the time to check in with venues, pick up my tickets for the other 30 or so shows, have a couple of surgeries with artists opening shows …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMSunday, April 16, 2017
This morning my colleague Jacqui and I hopped in another Hull taxi and, as I have each journey, I asked about Hull City of Culture. This time the conversation in the mirror from a gruff Hull…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Swallow is a stunning three hander, gender blind cast piece of theatre which tackles all of the subjects in paragraph one. It comes from the sure creative heart of Durham student theatre, in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
I arrived at 9.25pm last night from a day in Belfast, and the administrator Joseph welcomed me, not with a welcome pint, but with the news that I was just in time to see a piece of gig theat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, April 9, 2017
What an extraordinary privilege. I am sitting in the rehearsal room when two leading actors meet their orchestra for the very first time to prepare for the world premiere of a piece which ha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
I am, at times, concerned that emerging talent, especially actors, do not understand the nature of our business. They seem sometimes to forget how small and connected we all are.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
The arts in the UK, across the UK and into every pocket of community and fringe, owes a great debt of gratitude to Lyn Gardner and her employers at the Guardian for believing in the importan…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
My creative week has encompassed meetings with a playwright exploring 6 new projects which are each in commercial development, an inspiring concert with 4 cabaret bands and over 40 performer…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, March 4, 2017
One scientist floated the heretical idea that science may not now, or ever, be able to answer all the questions – but with the arts they may be able to answer a few more.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 2, 2017
Most of my 58-year-old contemporaries are either rich/famous from their creative decisions and brilliant positioning at the centre of the storm, or they have given up years ago and got a rea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
At a time when politicians may be talking about narrowing their focus to the local and the immediate, the chosen ones and sovereignty within borders, we in the arts are opening our arms.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMTuesday, February 7, 2017
This weekend, I was a guest at the launch of a new collaboration between the China based GengXing Culture Development Company, Ginger.cat, and the UK based Big Foot Arts Education. Big Foot …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:01AM 
