I’m Overwhelmed by the Inaccessibility of Fringe for Working-Class Creatives
Making an Edinburgh Fringe debut, there is no time, or money, for your immune system to fail you. Eve Simpson writes about the reality of taking a show to the ...
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If I don’t create my own work, am I not a true artist?
How often do you torture yourself with this statement? Actor, Georgia Tuohey talks candidly about her struggles with and ultimately liberation from knowing she...
Owen Calvert-Lyons: “People feel like there has to be a huge cause behind loneliness”
Halima Hassan contemplates loneliness and its inevitable links to technology and social media as she chats to Owen Calvert-Lyons, Director of Ovalhouse's Rando...
Rattled’s Rachel Harper: “We exclusively hire female-identifying creatives”
Halima Hassan talks to woman of many talents, Rachel Harper about her new play, Rattled which discusses, among other things, postnatal mental health. Bound...
Blog: Full Circle: Exploring the relationship between being working class and mental health
My family in Essex think I’m nuts. Funny but nuts. They don’t understand what I’m trying to do as a career, but (luckily) they love the idea of it. “…Our Michel...
Blog: Writing ‘Happy Yet?’: A fresh take on depression, anxiety and mental illness
Happy Yet? is the story of a middle-aged man, Torsten, and his inability to function within Swedish society. From an attic flat in Stockholm, Torsten wages batt...