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...
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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...
Review: Dust, Underbelly Cowgate
There could be an entire brochure of one person shows about mental illness this year. Most being long drawn out stories of someone's life, ending with the hopef...
Feature: Outsiders, dodging stereotypes and honesty in MOTH
AYT’s Rachel Kevern speaks to Piers Black-Hawkins, co-founder of award-winning Ransack Theatre, about how the company have maintained the unique allure of theat...