I'm sitting in an Air BNB in Newcastle upon Tyne where we've been performing Odd Encounter all week - last show of the run here tonight. It's about sex, love and relationships, and in it…
I am at IETM Munich, an international gathering of performing artists. I was fortunate enough to be given a platform here to speak to Newsround delegates for 3 minutes. Here are the notes of what…
Last night at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford University, I presented this at the "Truth to Power Cafe", a fascinating platform presented by Jeremy Goldstein of London Artists Projects. "The secret of change is to…
This week I accepted an invitation. Jeremy Goldstein, Founder and Creative Director of London Artists Projects was putting on an event called 'The Truth to Power Cafe' and inviting volunteer participants to make 5 minute…
A lot has happened in the year since I last wrote one of these blogs. Since I believe that the personal is political, I'm going to express this from a personal angle. Women in politics…
One hundred years ago, the start of the battle of the Somme in World War One. World War Two, The Cold War, Falklands, Iraq, 9-11, Paris, Brussels, Orlando, Turkey, the War on Drugs, the War…
Our UK democracy (and it is a democracy, albeit a far from perfect one) has put the Tories into power for the next 5 years. My social media streams are still full of shock and…
Today is the anniversary of Jennie Lee's White Paper on arts policy which stated that: "Only yesterday it was the fight for a free health service. The day before it was the struggle to win…
We've been talking to some older women recently, to get their input into An Odd Occasion. As a woman of a certain age, myself, I've been reflecting on what they told me and I've come…
Artists and arts organizations like mine sometimes talk about our work as 'socially engaged' work - if arts are a tool for social and/or political change (which I think they can be) then we need…