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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.

expiration

Reviewing the situation

I don’t think that I had noticed this before: in the Guardian, book reviews are written by other authors. Theatre reviews are not written by other theatre makers. Why?

Carbon efficient

We made our first carbon-neutral project 🎉

Big goal: accomplished. But how? Here’s a not-too-technical breakdown that might contain some useful stuff you can apply to your own digital adventures.

process

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?

inspiration

What I have learned from Bob

A couple of weeks ago my friend Tom sent me a Guardian article which attempts to list and rank Bob Dylan’s 50 Best songs. Many things about the list annoyed me.

process

A work-in-tbc

Last week, I gave myself a reading week. One of the books I read was Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini. Please read it, it’s really very brilliant.

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Collaborating with Scientists

I was recently asked about what my experiences have taught me about partnerships between artists and scientists. I found it a really interesting question to reflect on because we have made quite a lot of work in collaboration with scientists.

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Truth and Lies

There’s an introductions ‘game’ -one of the less awful ones- called ‘2 truths, 1 lie’ - in which you say three things about yourself and the other people in the group have to guess which is the lie. The way to win is to tell a lie that is plausible.

Environmental impact

Making The Justice Syndicate more carbon efficient

Early last year, I released statistics detailing the environmental impact of The Justice Syndicate. For the last four months, I have been exploring the different ways in which we could further reduce our carbon footprint.

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