[acx_slideshow name=”Running in the Woods”] I visited the New Forest in the Spring of 1988 after the hurricane of 1987 many are remembering today. I wrote this following the visit and over the years kept amending until it became this particular version: A Walk In The New Forest in 1988 After A Hurricane Not overly wild and not yet fully …
Signpost 3: Audience/Participant responses to The House
Journey through ‘The House – researching theatre, performance and poverty’ (Studies in Theatre and Performance Special Issue Vol 31:1) Signpost 3: Audience Responses to The House ‘The House’ didn’t do the usual touring route so no Guardian review for this one or any other newspaper review as a matter of fact. We chose a different way and invited essays or short …
Recharging Your Creativity
Part 1 Place: Heron Corn Mill 23rd – 24th September 2017 30 September-1 October 2017 28th – 29th October 2017 18th-19th November 2017 These dates form the beginning of the first part of a four part year-long course Here is the brochure: Recharging Your Creativity with Carran Waterfield (final)
Gorse Actually In Beauty
I have just come back from Charmouth from the Trees and Water workshop with Sandra Reeve. It inspired much moving and writing.
Gorse in Beauty
I have been writing about Gorse since I came across one caught in midwinter and then these beauties while I was teaching on a workshop in York recently. Below is my offering on this:
Walking with the Ancestors
I dream them and I work them out in my daily life. I bought a couple of months of unlimited time on ancestry.co.uk and it took over my life so I had to come off it. But the ancestors leave thumb prints all over me. They just won’t go away. They walk alongside me and tap my shoulder every …
Aspects of Physical Theatre – log book
Yesterday I began teaching Aspects of Physical Theatre at the University of Manchester. It is the second time teaching it there for me and I am applying what I learned from the first version two years ago. It is assessed partly through a log book so I thought I would have a go at doing my own log entry …
Running in the Woods
Running in the woods this holiday made me remember walking to school with instalments of “The Last of the Mohicans” flooding my brain in the early 70s. I then thought about Wyken Slough and Manor House Estate in Coventry where I grew up and Canada where I have many relatives whom I have never met and a planned visit …








