Theatre work

I trained at the University of Bristol Department of Drama.

 

In 1987 I set up Lynx Theatre and Poetry with the writer and actress, Jacqueline Mulhallen, and this company toured plays around England and Ireland for 5 years.

 

I created the particular form of production associated with the company, involving the use of interacting art-forms within the structure of the play. In addition to sequences of slides of archive material, paintings and drawings, and photographs taken on location in England and abroad, I used music, recorded voices and dance. Lynx was the first small-scale touring theatre company to use digital tape recording.

 

Initially I worked alongside a director, but later I directed both Sylvia and Rebels and Friends, though continuing to work with a choreographer.

 

I have recently redirected Sylvia, written and performed by Jacqueline Mulhallen, and the first performance at the Crossroads Women's Centre in Camden sold out two days in advance. The two subsequent performances (at the Chiltern Open Air Museum and Wortley Hall trades union centre) were also to full houses.

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The play toured the UK from 7 March (click here for dates) and further dates are being booked for spring 2018.

 

I have also

• taught Drama at the College of West Anglia;

• directed local amateurs in the improvisation and creation of a community play for Wissey Valley Arts;

• worked with students at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge;

• written and directed street theatre;

• written a dramatic poems for two voices, Somewhere Else, which was performed as part of the Future Floodlands event outside Peterborough Cathedral in 2016. For more about this, see my blog.