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Thoughts for April: In ‘Trying Times’
This month marks a year since we first tried ‘Thoughts For...’ It also lines up with recent releases of James Blake’s ‘Trying Times’ and Joshua Idehen’s ‘I know you’re hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try’. So we’re reflecting on trying, how we interpret what it means to try, and why it’s important to do so...
Thoughts for November: Why we’re ‘Playing it Safe’
This month, as the year is winding to the end but our industry is often at its busiest and most relentless, we’re talking about how our commitment first and foremost to creating safety for audiences, artists and participants lets us take no risk with people but lots of risk with the art.
Thoughts for September: How it Feels to Make Impossible Things
In celebration of a year since we launched the film of our production, Mother of the Revolution, we are giving audiences the last opportunity to watch it for free this weekend, and celebrating Betty Beecroft and all it means to make the impossible happen.
Thoughts for June: What it is, isn’t and could be...
Right now, we’re on the precipice of a new project, Shirley: An Awakening, a radical gig-musical contemporary retelling of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Shirley, and we’re back in the place where you have some idea, but by no means a complete vision, of where the work is going...
Thoughts for May: Cultural Capital (honesty about funding nos and why it won’t stop us sharing)
Beth and Seán talk about the honest impact of funding yeses or nos and how we want to take some power out of this hellscape. We also hear from artists Yolanda Mercy and Adam Z Robinson on their own processes of this too.
