A huge thank you to everyone involved on the day. Jamie and I are from the New Wolsey Theatre just up the road from where we all met. We are really keen to make new connections and improve our work with Learning Disabled professional artists. We currently programme relaxed performances, PMLD productions and a theatre […]
Theatre
Creative Minds review in A Younger Theatre
Very interesting review from Bella Todd featured in A Younger Theatre as well as disability arts online http://www.ayoungertheatre.com/feature-why-are-learning-disabled-artists-under-represented/ Be great to hear comments. There will be an easy read version available soon which we will publish
From Stuart Murdoch, Greengoose Theatre
The Creative Minds conference was truly inspiring and it left me with a lot of questions. I have recently taken over the leadership of the Greengoose theatre course at Bromley College. For those of you who don’t know us we are a theatre course for young people with learning disabilities. I have been teaching on […]
‘Lusitania: the Floating Palace’
Razed Roof’s new show, which I saw at the Harlow Playhouse, is about the Lusitania, a big passenger boat that travelled from New York to Liverpool during the First World War It was carrying bombs without the passengers knowing. And was sunk by a German U boast with a huge loss of life. Razed Roof […]
Confused
The Creative Minds South East committee are confused! Why is the work of learning disabled artists nearly always seen as part of an arts venue or galleries education programme, outreach or community work or even more annoyingly – arts therapy? Any ideas? Thompson Hall from Action Space and Sarah Watson from Oska Bright explain a […]
That’s the way to do it
How brilliant that Australia’s amazing Back to Back Theatre stormed Edinburgh International Festival last week, with its production “Ganesh Versus the Third Reich.” The List critic Gareth K Vile said this: “It allows the company to reflect on the difficult questions, to challenge both the use of Nazi iconography on stage and the accusations that […]