Mapping a New direction in a Creative Journey: Follow the Stone[1]Part One Then and Now Here follows a series of posts reflecting on recent creative explorations I have been making. These reflections coincide with a podcast I was invited to do recently for Per Stellas and an invitation to facilitate and direct students in a creative project we are calling …
ManWorks – latest
ManWorks is a mini festival of new performance work inspired by the human form in the landscape curated by theatre and performance maker Carran Waterfield and presented by presented by Heron Mill. Heron Corn Mill in association with theatre and performance maker Carran Waterfield is pleased to announce a brand new event: ManWorks, a mini festival of new performance work …
The House media clips are online now
My performance research work on performance and poverty is documented here in one place: https://vimeo.com/channels/904205 This is my most recent performance work: ‘The House’. There are extracts from the final performance and also clips from the development. Reading materials are here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rstp20/37/1?nav=tocList Thanks for looking at this material.
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 …
Gorse Actually In Beauty
[acx_slideshow name=”Gorse 2″] I have just come back from Charmouth from the Trees and Water workshop with Sandra Reeve. It inspired much moving and writing but also these gorgeous pics
Aspects of Physical Theatre – log book
[acx_slideshow name=”Aspects of Physical Theatre”] 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 …
Dad
It’s seven years tonight that Dad died and I have been thinking and was surprised the day came upon me late today. I mean I only remembered this evening – the time he actually went. It may mean I am getting over it.
Copying, Confessing, Compromising and Neil Young
I want to tell you about “Tree Fall”. I made this little film almost directly after the clearing up that followed the floods in Cumbria in 2015. It follows the dismemberment of a tree that had fallen into the River Bela that runs through Heron Corn Mill where I work at the moment. I became entranced by the image of …








