Taking on the role of Stage Manager for WOMENSwear is very exciting, I am just in the process of writing my book for the final time, after months of re-writing cue sheets. In this blog post I want to discuss the need to be sustainable as a Stage Manager. Especially in my scenario as a […]

Catriona McQuiggan said in an article on arts marketing in the Guardian “As an arts marketer, it’s important to keep experimenting, challenging your assumptions and asking questions.” (The Guardian, 2014). Good arts marketing relies on innovative ideas, and the ability to sense what your audience will connect with – and this was one of my […]

Why am I writing WOMENSwear? This is a question I have asked myself so many times and answering it does not get any easier. I wrote it because I became increasingly frustrated with the generalised perception of women as weak, powerless and vulnerable. I wrote it because I was fed up of hearing people say […]

Creating and rehearsing WOMENSwear, from reading through the first drafts of the script to getting it up on its feet, has been both an exciting and daunting experience for me as a performer – mainly because verbatim theatre requires certain things from an actor which I had not previously experienced. WOMENSwear is a compilation of stories from several […]

This blog post explores how I moved from my initial intensions to staging the play. I like simplicity and I hate watching a show which is over-cluttered with fussiness. Having spent Summer 2014 with The Lincoln Company at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, my perspective of what theatre was changed dramatically. Having watched copious average productions […]