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Apparently people liked Feathers! After touring Tasmanian schools last year and playing to over 14,ooo students, Feathers has just wound up a theatre season on the Island. Thanks for all the stars Lesley Graham. Thanks too to the performers who brought these characters to life, and the makers who worked with me at Terrapin on…
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How can we find and tell stories when connection is fleeting? With a team of Terrapin folk, I’ve just wrapped up a seven week unmapped exploration at the Migrant Resource Centre’s Youth Drop-in program, seeking to develop a way of working and a relationship that can grow in the coming years. Young recent arrivals to…
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I recently presented with the wonderful Dr Tanja Beer on Ecoscenography and Sustainable Puppetry Practice. Some interesting questions were raised by the network of artists and designers involved in the EU-based Impulse Project. One was about longevity: when proposing salvaged materials for theatre design, clients often question whether it will last. There are several ways…
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There are many approaches to developing a sustainable practice. Mine I would loosely describe as ‘frugality’, a practice of using precious resources – even if they’re junk – with respect and caution. This has led over time to the necessity of materials-informed design: allowing the available materials to influence the design, and to be inseparable…
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I’ve been thinking about the old Waste Heirarchy – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – for years, and how it needs more levels to reflect the need to push it upstream to where decisions are made. So here’s one I’ve developed for theatre. It’s a helix now, so the different layers can talk to each other. Please…
