Shout out today for BA and ground staff/ assisted travel at Gatwick and Funchal for making navigating the airports with a recently broken foot so easy.

Absolutely gutted in the rush to leave the brilliant Assitej Artistic Gathering y’day to get to The Future of UK Youth Theatres symposium I broke my foot. Now I am going to miss a fantastic day of conversations with some really wonderful practitioners and researchers @Rachelhann.bsky.social

It’s been a joy to be at ASSITEJ International artistic gathering surrounded by theatre makers and researchers who really care about performance made for and with young people. As ever learning more than sharing!

A tough moment today… in a school observing two drama workshop leaders from the Donmar. One of them told the year eight group, that I had been their university teacher before any of drama class were even born! I now feel very very old!

Have been spending time in schools with year 8 & 9 students with fantastic workshop leaders from @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social as part of a Donmar Local project. It has been an utter joy to see young people throwing themselves in to drama, doing critical thinking & having fun.

Just spent a glorious morning with the folks from the Donmar Local’s fabulous artistic team for an R&D session. Thinking about ‘bringing the joy’, theatre in schools, devising with young people and climate change
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Hurray after a full of exploring our plumber just found our leak! My weekend just got so much better!

It was graduation day for Central’s class of 2024 this week. It was utterly gorgeous to see those who made it for the ceremony. Excellent speeches from Cush Jumbo and our principal Josette Bushell-Mingo and lovely to spend time with my wonderful colleagues at the Royal Festival Hall.

Spending today researching theatre for young audiences in Spain and am so excited by the work I am looking at on websites I just want to get on plane and spend the next few weeks watching it.

Office move! 23-ish years of MA Applied Theatre Dissertations, alphabetical stored by year in 15 boxes … with another five boxes to go! Huge thanks to our fabulous estates team @cssdLondon.

On Monday it was win, win. The MA Applied Theatre @cssdlondon students were thinking about combining digital technology & drama teaching with @candttheatre.bsky.social and then @paulsutton.bsky.social and I had time do some plotting for new projects. A great start to the week!

A wet and miserable Sunday … it’s time to lock the doors, and indulge our inner geeks, in this house.

Spent time this week with Vital Xposure exploring creative captioning in Punjabi and English. And have been totally energised by discussions around theatre access, words, translation & power. Deeply grateful to the team at VX, @aprecious.bsky.social @cssdLondon & our PTEQ lab.

Just received an email as co-editor of RiDE asking “How much plagiarism is acceptable to the journal, 15% or 20% ?”

Sutton Trust report: 'The charity said access to creative degrees in subjects such as music and art was skewed towards those from upper middle-class backgrounds at the most prestigious institutions. ' Link to report is: www.suttontrust.com/our-research...

Another month… testing another new platform… maybe this is the one that sticks 🤞🏻