I want to make work that has a crafted quality, which is about things that matter. Ideas arrive all the time and not all of them will happen but here are a few current ideas…..
future ideas
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Evening wll come
I am determined to make a show that eschews the idea that old age is about sitting in a wing back chair watching endless episodes of Pointless before we die. I know who I want to make it with. In some way it links to the discovery, thanks Chris Fogg, that the word retirement comes from theatre and the first name for a changing room…. the re-attirement room.
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Hens
Every time I see chickens running free I am strangely touched. I love their apparent ordinariness. yet something like 10 million chickens are ‘dispatched’ each day in the UK. I think this is less a play and maybe a collection of photos, writings, facts, info-graphs and colour charts. It might have to wait to find its form and context. I just know there is something in the idea which helps make sense of the world.
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A canon of county plays
The idea is to create a kind of theatrical record of life in each of the 48 english counties by commissioning a writer from each to create the play they wish which springs from that county. Then make them available ‘rights’ free for performance by amateurs, schools and professionals. The thought is that some might start as alliances with a particular theatre – say Chichester and Sussex – and each would be called simply ‘the Wiltshire play’. About £750k
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The Great Hedge of India
In the 1840s the British built a custums barrier across India to facilitate collecting the heavy salt tax that ran nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km), manned by 12,000 personnel. The barrier consisted of fences, stone walls, and a nearly impenetrable barrier of trees, thorny bushes, and hedges, with periodic guard stations. Im curious to find a way into telling this story.
