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not theatre

A collection of 12 posts

Interdisciplinary collaboration and good partnership working - reflections on going Wild with Manchester Museum

Interdisciplinary collaboration and good partnership working - reflections on going Wild with Manchester Museum

In the first half of 2024, FF worked with Manchester Museum on a digital interactive for their new exhibition, Wild. The process was smooth - and more importantly, fun and interesting. Here we dig into what makes a good collaboration... and what we learned.

Looking for ‘Looking for Love’

Looking for ‘Looking for Love’

It’s time we all stopped pretending we make perfect work that turns out just as we planned. This is an honest documentation of a process which taught us a lot.

What language please

What language please

What happens if you apply start-up logic to being an arts organisation? Turns out that looking at what you do through the lens of another sector shows up the baggage you're carrying.

Travelling without moving

Travelling without moving

Thinking about inward-looking islands, and what the last year has taught us about actively making space for international encounters.

6 things I learned from digital work and 6 things I learned from remote work

6 things I learned from digital work and 6 things I learned from remote work

Reflections on transitioning from a theatre director in a theatre to a digital experience maker in my kitchen.

Queerness, video games, and escaping reality

digital entertainment

Queerness, video games, and escaping reality

Co-writing Fast Familiar's latest show got me digging into the stories of LGBTQIA+ gaming – as well as my own.

Putting the play into theatre

audience centric

Putting the play into theatre

What do we really mean when we talk about playable theatre, immersive theatre, interactive theatre and the like? And what do we hope to get from works in these categories?

What kind of art do we want right now?

What kind of art do we want right now?

Sometimes we make art to prod the belly of corporate greed; sometimes we make art to frolic with elves at the North Pole. Both these things are fine – and necessary.

13 things I’ve loved and loathed in online escape rooms

13 things I’ve loved and loathed in online escape rooms

This year we've ended up spending countless hours locked into online puzzle games – and made our own. But what's so good about them? And what's... not?

Is Aristotle proud of me?

A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Is Aristotle proud of me?

How do you live a good life? What does flourishing mean? Is it dirty if work is part of it? Maybe the ancient Greeks know...

Six crime novels that inspired our new show, The Evidence Chamber

Six crime novels that inspired our new show, The Evidence Chamber

This summer we're inviting audiences to become jurors at a murder trial in our new online courtroom drama. We made the show in collaboration with real-life forensic scientists, but also took a lot of inspiration from fiction – here are six books that really stuck with us.

New forms, old boxes

New forms, old boxes

So theatres are shut - I don’t know if you’d noticed. Some people are making for a new architecture - the internet. But do we have the language to talk about these new forms?