(Le) Pain is a genre-hopping performative tour of life and bread. I had no idea the etymology of ‘companion’ had latin roots (com: ‘together with’; panis: ‘bread’)…sprinkle with a little French et viola: ‘to break bread with one another’. Lovely. As is this whole show.
Read MoreShe Wolf is a one-woman play on the corrosive effects of living in an unfettered, free-market capitalist society that is imbued with unrelenting masculinist tendencies. The protagonist works hard in an office when an opportunity for promotion presents itself. Being the best in her rank, and well placed for elevation, she applies for the position only to be passed over in favour of an incompetent male candidate who also happens to be related to one of the bosses.
What happens next is a salutary lesson on the consequences of so blatantly subverting the mirage of meritocracy.
Read MoreAhead of tomorrow’s launch, the last conversation finds interviewee Jill Korn turn interviewer to speak with Kenny Burnham.
Kenny is a theatre-maker, dramaturg and playwright. His work for stage includes Hollow and They’ll Get You Now You’re Gone. Kenny also featured in the filmed theatre event, A Journey Around My Tenement.
Read MoreThe new audio play A Journey Around My Room will be available very soon. In the second of our interviews, interviewee David Sillars turns interviewer to speak with Lorenzo Novani.
Lorenzo is an actor, dramatist and playwright. He has written, staged and performed two plays Cracked Tiles and Loving the Enemy as well as having co-written the filmed-theatre event A Journey Around My Tenement. Lorenzo plays the part of Joanetti.
Read MoreWithin the next week or two, the audio-play A Journey Around My Room will be publicly available. My first play as an audio-cast has been a fascinating experience. Journey is a story of self-discovery, solidarity and survival in an age of turmoil. During the recording sessions I had the privilege of working with a stellar cast and the atmosphere was always convivial. The spirit of these enjoyable sessions was captured in a series of interviews between cast members David Sillars, Jill Korn, Lorenzo Novani and myself resulting in conversations sharing our experiences of bringing the play to life. These interviews take the form of a chain reaction: an actor interviews a fellow actor and they subsequently become the interviewee for another actor.
The first of these conversations features actor, David Sillars, being interviewed by director Kenny Burnham. David is an artist and actor with fifty years of experience in theatre, TV, film and radio. Nominated for the 2016 Michael Powell Award for the Best Performance in a British Feature, he is joint screen writer of the award winning LGBT feature Seat in Shadow. David plays the part of Xavier De Maistre.
Read MoreI have recently received the final production of A Journey Around My Room…and I am really pleased with it! The actors have done a fantastic job bringing the characters to life and the world in which they live has been beautifully brought to life by sound engineer, Alex Bennett. Interviews between the actors will be published prior to release.
The audio play will be made available on this website very soon. I hope you’ll take the journey!
Read MoreDuring lockdown I was reading all about the Bauhaus. It struck me that the school which opened its doors on 1st April 1919 (a mere 5 months after the Great War) lived a day-to-day existence not entirely out of keeping with how our lives are today. I dwelt on the school’s less well-known formative years between 1919 and 1923. It is the first time I have considered writing something that was not at least in part fiction and I am aware, should I go on to write this, that there is a duty to maintain the integrity of the characters from that period including Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger and Johannes Itten…
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