Performer's Perspective: Putting more bums on seats
Have you heard? Theatre producers are launching a new idea to get more people into their shows by giving free tickets to homeless people. They’re calling the scheme ‘bums on seats’. Okay, so that’s...
View ArticlePerformer's Perspective: Is it time spoken word was recognised as an...
If you read the Edinburgh Fringe Guide, you’ll discover that comedy listings take up 133 pages, theatre 87 pages, and spoken word a mere eight pages. From these cold figures, it would seem spoken word...
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Performer's Perspective: What’s funny?
While I wouldn’t class myself a comedian, I’ve been making performance for 12 years and I most often make shows that have laughs in them. I’ve always been fascinated with what makes things funny. I...
View ArticlePerformer's Perspective: “Theatre provides a family for all sorts of outlaws”
Lulu Vicari, Machine Gun Jack McGurn aka Vincenzo Gibaldi, Roxy Vanilli and the Gyp the Blood Gang. When I started work on The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, it was these beautiful bad guy names, among...
View ArticlePerformer's Perspective: There’s always someone waiting in the wings – an...
There is always someone ‘waiting in the wings’ to take your role. This is an expression that every performer has heard countless times, so much so that it becomes embedded into your personal belief...
View ArticlePerformer's Perspective: Collaborating across art forms
When I became sole artistic director of Probe in 2008, I wanted to continue collaborating with artists from different genres. Our present production, Running on Empty, involves theatre director Jo...
View ArticlePerformer's Perspective: When your career is stuck in limbo
Inbetween is an intermediate thing. A place where you tread water, a purgatory if you will. Gone are the days of rep theatre and the many opportunities for young/new actors to hone their stagecraft in...
View ArticlePerformer's Perspective: Working in Malaysia
So here I’ve been for a week, performing where summer never ends, in Malaysia’s steamy capital, Kuala Lumpur. I’m used to doing one-man cabaret shows in London and have even performed in New York and...
View ArticlePerformer's Perspective: Found in translation?
“I’m not sure I would ever say fishmongers’ shops… fishmongers yes, fish shops very possibly, but never fishmongers’ shops… I don’t think I would say that…” I think I may have even gone further,...
View ArticlePerformer's Perspective: Casting aspersions
So performers are calling on the BBC to increase casting opportunities on its drama productions The Stage tells me. Evidently one topic discussed at the recent Equity annual Representative conference...
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