20 Years of Theatr Cynefin
Theatr Cynefin began as a Millennium Festival project called Cynefin 2000 which I started as Co-Director of Theatr Fforwm Cymru in 1999 in the town of Fishguard in West Wales. Working with Community Artist Mike...
CoArts: What’s the big idea?
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to...
Has my son been turned into a Tory by Jordan B. Peterson?
My youngest son has gone through some kind of transformation over the last year. Previously hidden in his bedroom hunched in front of a screen all night, railing against the injustices of the world (not...
I draw the line
I would like to write about this paper and pen problem. It’s a curious sensation to write that sentence. In writing about the implements that allow me to draw these lines, I am rendering them...
9/11 was a Psych-Ops Coming of Age Party
This is the only post about 9/11. I promise. So by now you might already suspect that I’m wearing a hat made of tinfoil and about to tell you that ‘That’s just what they want....
The Edge of Tomorrow
I’ve a confession to make. Raiders of the Lost Ark was a huge influence on my life. It convinced me as a teenager that life is an adventure and that I should be fearless in...
The Black and White of Grey Matter
Put yourself in a position of power. The kind of power – wealth, political or religious office or public adoration, that gives you influence over very many people. For most of us it is difficult...
Context Oriented Theatre and Muybridge
When Muybridge strung together photographs of a horse taken at different intervals of a gallop his aim was to settle a bet about whether all four legs of the horse at any point leave the...
Capitalism Hits the Fan
My grandmother used to say ‘everything bad comes from America’. I didn’t agree with her, of course. But then I was young and foolish at the time. America then was just a few years ahead of...
A Thneed is a fine something that Everyone Needs
There’s an old Sufi saying that Hell is where you receive everything you want. Well how about the prospect of a shiny new, sweet smelling hell where you receive everything you think you want, because that...