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Hannah Snell - the Female Soldier
In 2014, the Huntington Library Quarterly published an essay I had co-written with David Worrall, Emeritus Professor of English at Nottingham Trent, which explored the facts around Hannah Snell. My ...
30 Dec, 2022
Performances of The Walled Up Woman in c...
The Walled Up Woman is, of course, suitable to be performed in churches. The anchoress character comes with very little baggage, needing hardly any room. My costume fits into a small rucksack. A stage...
12 Jul, 2022
Madame Vestris (1797-1856) actress and L...
I have written a 20 minute monologue for Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, who is fading from history as a talented actress and contralto as well as an influential and groundbreaking theatre manager, who int...
25 Mar, 2022
3 minute Play - 'Rat' on https://eastsuf...
My three minute duologue, both roles performed and recorded by Martha Loader in her home during lockdown, was on East Suffolk /one radio every day from 31st January at 10.30 am and 2.30pm. I love sh...
31 Jan, 2022
Hermitages in Catalonia
One sunny September morning we drove into the hills - up and up - past blue and verdant views to El Montell in the Baix Penedes. We parked and asked in the village of Aiguaviva's lone restaurant (...
27 Sep, 2021
Lucy Hutchinson: Parliamentary stalwart...
Well before Byron, long before Lawrence, a Nottingham writer was living a truly revolutionary life...
Lucy Hutchinson was the earliest and most rebellious of Nottingham’s writers. Her Me...
16 Jul, 2021
Challenges of Zoom Performance
I was curious to see how Lady in a Veil would transfer to Zoom, doubting the technology would support it easily. So far Lady Mary had thrived on the warmth of performing to people in the same room wit...
29 Apr, 2021
Performance in a Pandemic - by David Wor...
The Walled-Up Woman: Live Performance at the ExtremesWhat if the future of performance isn’t on a screen? What if live performance needs to concentrate on the local? As cities empty, what if the...
29 Apr, 2021