Conversations on Care and/in the Community 12.30 – 6.30 Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck, University of London 6th June 2019 Experiences and practices of care have changed dramatically in the past three decades. Since the passing of the NHS […]
Can performance care?
The Death and Performance Symposium at Sick! Theatre Festival, University of Salford Being seen ‘Death’, Steve Eastwood suggests, ‘is the final representational taboo.’ He is talking about his film Island, a documentary which he filmed over the course of a […]
I’m a Phoenix, Bitch
Bryony Kimmings is talking to her critical inner voice. ‘Haven’t we seen enough theatre shows about metal mothers?’ it says with a leer. It’s a man’s voice, specifically the voice of a male theatre producer with a slightly northern lilt. […]
The Heroine and her Double: Summer and Smoke
In many ways, director Rebecca Frecknall’s retelling of Summer and Smoke, which recently ended its west end run at the Duke of York’s Theatre, was masterful. Frecknall took a rarely staged work by Tennessee Williams and created a beautiful, […]
Illness as metaphor II: Ear for eye
I ended last month by suggesting that we need works of art which strip illness bare of its metaphors and give truth value to both its social conditions and the testimonies of those affected. A couple of weeks later at […]