Watch this space for more details of our new book, a collection of plays by Rob Drummond that I directed between 2011 and 2018. Published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama next year.
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Nomadic Theatre review
Read my review of Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink’s Nomadic Theatre: Mobilising Theory and Practice on the European Stage, just published at Contemporary Theatre Review.
The bones beneath the streets: drifting through London’s Quaternary
My new article has just been published, co-written with Jamie Lorimer (Oxford) and Danielle Schreve (Royal Holloway). Read it at Cultural Geographies.
The Majority: South Korea
A new version of The Majority, which I directed at the National Theatre in 2017, was presented in Seoul this month. I worked as a dramaturg with the team in London earlier this year and a translation of the play was presented in Korean by the Wooran Foundation.
“The majority has spoken”: Performing referenda at the National Theatre
My new article has just been published, co-written with Oliver Heath at Royal Holloway. Read it at Studies in Theatre and Performance.
Rotalar Yaratmak
Marco Pantani: The Pirate
Another chance to see Stuart Hepburn’s bio-play about the Italian cyclist, Marco Pantani. I directed the original in 2013 and this new production is directed by the author at Òran Mór in Glasgow from 28th October. Details here.
In conversation with Rob Drummond
Listen to my conversation with Scottish playwright-performer Rob Drummond, whose work I have often directed. We discuss collaboration, ethics and participation in our work over the last few years.
Rantin and Raving: Kieran Hurley’s Aesthetic Communities
My new article has just been published. Read it now at Contemporary Theatre Review.
I also filmed an interview with Kieran Hurley for the journal’s online Interventions section.
The Six Wild Ways of the Oak
Listen to the performance text I recorded at Knepp Wildland Project, written and performed with Jamie Lorimer, Sofie Narbed, Jenny Swingler and Scott Twynholm.
The Six Wild Ways of the Oak is a creative response to the wild ways of the site, focussing on the different topologies through which we might conceive of the oak.
This project was funded as part of Jamie Lorimer’s British Academy Fellowship at the University of Oxford. Thanks to Penny Green, Tom Forward, Rina Quinlan and all the staff at Knepp.
