“Coming Home”, a performance that was described as beautiful, heart aching, whimsical and lighthearted has come to an end. Simon Tate, the head drama teacher at Queensland Academies of Creative Industries, where we were artists in residence, described it like this in his facebook post: I’m just going to come out and say it – […]
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And so we are entering our week of performances and…
Monday, November 9, 2015
I have had a very satisfying 5 weeks working with Year 10’s at Queensland Academies of Creative Industries (QACI), located at Kelvin Grove next to Queensland University of Technology (QUT). I was invited to work with Simon Tate and Stephen Matthais’ classes and create a scripted performance piece. I chose The Belonging Trilogy, a compilation […]
The spirit cannot breathe without story: Sing in me Muse, and through me tell the story
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
The spirit cannot breathe without story writes John Carroll. His book The Western Dreaming (2001) is on top of my pile of books right now because I am working with a large group of 15 year olds, adapting The Belonging Trilogy (Eve, HOME and He Dreamed a Train, the three plays that I wrote over […]
Healing Greece, a pilgrimage towards health and creative practice
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Toni Morrison, in her Graduation speech (quoted in the marvellous newsletter Brainpickings) says: “You are your own stories, and therefore free to imagine and experience what is means to be human…” And that was the intention of this retreat: we were given the opportunity, through play and experiential engagement, to freely imagine new stories in […]
HOME is over for a wee while
Sunday, July 26, 2015
It’s that Sunday morning. You know the one. The show has been bumped out ten hours before and you are sitting on the couch with coffee-in-hand wondering what has happened. Those of you who are not theatre makers, I will explain and you will see it is also something that happens in everyone’s life at […]