Producing the Maiden Speech Festival: Making Space For Change
Producer, Lexi Clare writes about why we accept harmful discrimination, the 'openness' of theatre and how she is hoping to make change with Maiden Speech Festiv...
disability
Feature: Disabled Access All Areas: An Open Letter to Theatre
During the summer, I decided that I’d attend Edinburgh Fringe to get my fill of stage performances all in one go. In the midst of one-person performances and pl...
Review: Mia: Daughters of Fortune
Mind The Gap is one of Europe’s leading disability theatre companies, and its most recent production at the Fringe proves why. Mia: Daughters of Fortune is an e...
Feature: Getting Better Slowly, an inspiring story of illness and recovery
“I was very active, I was sporty and fit. I was working as a freelancer in the midlands. I just didn’t expect it to happen…” Getting better slowly is the sto...
Feature: Dancing through disability – Suzie Birchwood’s conversation with dystonia
For any dancer or choreographer, to have an evening of your work staged by Sadler’s Wells is a coup. But for Suzie Birchwood, who presents and performs in A ...
Review: The Way You Look (At Me) Tonight, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
Open, tactile, dynamic, strong, gentle. Mobile. Moving. These are only a couple of words that were on my mind while watching The Way You Look (At Me) Tonight, a...