process Travelling without moving Thinking about inward-looking islands, and what the last year has taught us about actively making space for international encounters.
process Making shows, taking care Devising online has made us all think more about how we care for the folk we're working with... here's some stuff we've learned.
audience Convenience culture and exclusive events At a time when all kinds of performance are available at the click of a trackpad, it isn't 'liveness' that we should be talking about. It's event-y-ness.
audience 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.
access Describe your current appearance in one sentence... When Rachel chaired a panel recently, she asked speakers to describe their appearances for the audio transcription. It was really hard. Here, she and Al try to unpick why – and how to change that.
process 10 things we learnt about access (in the broadest sense) while making The Evidence Chamber We wanted to share what we learned, in the hopes that it will be of use to other people trying to make for digital space in an equitable/ inclusive way. We got some things right and some things... less right.
process 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?
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?
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.
process 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.
