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CURVE, Leicester
It’s with great excitement and a fair few nerves that I can let you know that I have today joined the team of CURVE in Leicester as a new Associate Director.
CURVE is a £61M theatre, comprising main house, studio space and the unique, award-winning inside-out architecture of Rafael Vinoly.
As well as creating my own work, I will be responsible for the theatre’s engagement with emerging artists and the creation and showcasing of work made with and for Leicester’s many and varied communities.
Head on over to the CURVE website for a virtual tour and more info on my new home.
The Young Vic
As some of you may know, I’ve been working a little bit with the Young Vic over the past few months, variously doing some of the workshopping on BABEL which will be the centrepiece of the World Stages London season, featuring a cast of around 500 performers brough together by The Young Vic, Battersea Arts Centre, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Lyric, Hammersmith; and also doing some education workshops to support Ian Rickson’s astonishing production of Hamlet starring Michael Sheen.
My latest, and most exciting project for The Young Vic will be my very own show (only running for three performances!) in The Maria, this summer. Working with a cast of young people, the Linbury Prize-winning designer Jean Chan and an exciting young composer called Nick Jones, I’ll be creating my own version of Peter Brook’s THE SUIT, to run alongside the mainhouse show.
Balancing the challenges of creating something artistically exciting and supporting an inexperienced cast in a show that will include storytelling, song and dance is going to be quite something. Keep your eyes peeled for more info.
State Of The Arts 2012
I’m just back from Manchester, where I had the absolute honour to appear in the launch film for State Of The Arts, Arts Council England’s major international conference on the role of the artist in a changing society. Quite someting for Valentine’s Day. On which note Dame Liz Forgan, Chair of the Arts Council, introduced Ed Vaizey as ‘our national Valentine’, which prompted quite a response.
Chaired by Kirsty Wark at The Lowry, Salford Quays, the conference featured contributions by David Edgar, Ruth Mackenzie, Baba Israel and Arlene Phillips amongst many others. Events around the conference included a lecture by the colossus that is Robert Wilson.
In the launch film ‘What Matters?’, directed and directed by Straybird (aka Becky Edmunds and Lucy Cash), nine artists were invited to reflect on the role of their art in the world. I was profiled alongside Jeanette Winterson, Hofesh Shechter, Anthony Missen and Kevin Turner of Company Chameleon, Zarina Bhimji, Vasily Petrenko (Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra), Mark Murphy and Sarah Wigglesworth.
Here’s me hopefully making some sense alongside these brilliant people:
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