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52 Conversations #6 Tassos Stevens

The 6th, very long, (and very late because it took me so long to edit) conversation is with the loquacious Tassos Stevens, director of Coney. It’s involves quite a lot of wine and whisky, so if you...

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52 Conversations #8 Alvin Chiam

The 8th, also very long conversation is with the brilliant performer and teacher Alvin Chiam. We talk about (amongst many other things) Philippe Gaulier (a lot), how discounted discounted spam, fear...

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[...some questions about design in Travesty...]

I got an email from [Alice Cousins], a designer,with some questions about the role design played in the work-in-progress performances of Travesty I just did at Ovalhouse. I thought they were really...

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[...52 Conversations #9 Chris Goode...]

The 9th conversation is with the Chris Goode, who needs no introduction… We talk about life and work, charm and wanting to work without it, Men in the Cities, Travesty, Criticism, ritual, acting and...

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[... 52 Conversation #10 Andrew Haydon...]

The 10th conversation is with the irrepressibly germanophile theatre critic and writer of the [...Postcards from the Gods...] blog Andrew Haydon… We talk about theatre criticism,  what we think people...

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[...52 Conversations #11 Annie Siddons...]

The 11th conversation is with awesome writer and performer Annie Siddons (with a guest appearance from my daughter). We talk about art wankers, having daughters, anxiety, arses. children’s theatre, the...

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[...a fucking love poem...]

The 8.5.15 of it The hurt of it The pain of it The rage of it The shame of it The fear of it The tears of it The sneer of it The 5 more fucking years of it The blame of it The inane centrists’s game of...

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[... my provocation from This Thing Called Artist Development at Ovalhouse...]

So this talk is called: Samuel Beckett’s First Play Was Shit And It Took A World War For Him To Write A Good One (and he was 40 before he did) or Artist Development Programmes are a Form of...

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[...#notallkillnotallwhitemen...]

I support Bahar Mustafa. [...notallkillnotallwhitemen...] (pdf)

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[...10...]

this city which cradles and betrays me i cannot sing you though your contradictions make me instead speak love filtered through horror not pride, nor resilience not blame, nor honour horror past,...

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