A Normal Child began life when Yarra City Council put a call out for disabled performers to work with director David Woods on a spoof playing with the reality of a Disability Action Plan. Required by all businesses, a plan for the inclusion of those...
I started Weave’s second day of exploration with the burgeoning Sarah Fiddaman, steeped in the remains of grief and hopelessness triggered by the opening on Friday. When a day starts with tears, the only way is up, right? Indeed it is and so ran the trajectory...
Tonight saw the last showing of the Disability Slapstick Plan at the Eternity Playhouse of the Darlinghurst Theatre in Sydney as part of the National Play Festival 2018. Even if I thought tonight's performance was lack lustre, I was drawn to believe otherwise when not...
I took part in a panel discussion covering tips for budding stage writers from our directors David and Jon and touching upon our respective experiences through the development of this work from myself, Trevor and Jess. We held an audience this morning in the Arts...
Our day began in a familiar fashion, each sharing our experiences, however, today our experiences centred around our individual experience of disability. Whether it was personal or familiar, everyone had encountered disability in their lives. I think that is indicative of most of society. In addition...
Crunch day for the Disability Slapstick Plan Well, after nearly 3 years of workshops, a couple of team member drop outs, new interest from theatrical funders holding promise in their grip and a hell of a lot of exploration via discussion into the murky depths of...
Second to last day Malthouse/Playwriting Aus Exploration Monday 6 November The partial work we shall be reading and blocking out on Friday at 2pm - open to all so come to the Tower Room at the Malthouse, has been doggedly pieced together from discussions and improvisations completed...
Today started with tales from last night’s adventure. Quite literally, taking Jon (codirector of Ridiculusmous Theatre UK), a good friend Brigid and I to the premiere of ‘Jeremy the Dud’ (the pilot in which I play a heavily rouged and melodramatic mum) in a place...
After a day’s break yesterday we reconvened in the Tower Room to continue development of the work that will be shown on Friday the 10th at 2pm. Informed by the improvisation and discussion carried out by our group over the three active weeks since February 2016,...
This aspect of the arts holds endless fascination and interest for me; the ability to revisit projects over the space of years in order to re-develop and find a shape contoured by the progression of one another’s lives, the evolution of circumstances. Meeting this time in...