Slice is now on display at Rich Mix in Bethnal Green (Tayyabs provided us a veritable feast for the opening event!) and in Lahore, at the National College of Arts. Documentation can be seen on our Facebook page. There are only a few more days left though, so whether you're in London or Lahore, you need to hurry!

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After what feels like an epic few weeks of wrestling with video formats, Skype meetings, late-night carpentry, programming in Isodora, and experimenting with Oyster card tech, the gallery version of SLICE is now at Idea Store Whitechapel, before going to Rich Mix in Bethnal Green and the National College of Arts in Lahore. The online version can be seen at http://www.lahore-london.com/ - it's just a few days old though, so if you spot any mistakes or glitches give us a shout!

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After many months of fundraising, negotiating with venues and spending far too long being administrators rather than creatives, we have our artists and we're making work. Fatima Hussain, Simon Daw and myself are co-curating a project by Other Asias and Scale called Slice. You'll be hearing a lot more about it but basically we've commissioned 10 artists (or collectives) from Lahore and 10 from London to make work in response to the two ends of an imaginary straight line connecting the central ...
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The 'Transformation and Revelation' exhibition has ended, though you can get the catalogue from the SBTD website as well as the National Theatre bookshop, online at Amazon and at various other leading bookshops. The last day of the exhibition included a symposium on site-specific theatre which quite a few of the exhibitors attended. So it turned into rather a lovely social event. My entry in the catalogue and exhibition is/was A Place at the Table.

Meanwhile, the project that I'm doing with Fa...
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Belarus Free Theatre is a remarkable theatre company: they are both internationally renowned artists and a voice for the people of Belarus, a country suffering under the appalling regime of President Alexander Lukashenko, the man who said he wanted to "put an end to this stupid democracy”. Show your support for Belarus Free Theatre and Index on Censorship’s campaign by joining Tom Stoppard, Jude Law, The Young Vic Theatre, The Almeida Theatre and many other colleagues on Monday.

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Every four years the Society of British Theatre Designers organises a major national exhibition of its members' work, along with members of the Association of Lighting Designers. This time round it's in the new (so new it's still being built) building at the Royal Welsh Collage of Music and Drama in Cardiff. I have a small display there about the process of making A Place at the Table, which I choose as it answered the exhibition's theme of 'transformation and revelation' and a specific reque...
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With The Rememberers now taking a rest prior to touring, I'm full steam ahead with my next project: the Young Vic's Theatre Festival for Special Needs Schools. Directed by Abigail Graham and Rachel Bagshaw, it involves six special needs schools in the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark and is based around the idea of flying. It's a lovely project and is a good example of how, in the best outreach projects, you don't have to choose between participation and excellence. Hurrah to the Young Vic a...
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The Rememberers made it onto the local TV news yesterday. You can watch here on iPlayer - jump to 15 mins, 30 secs to see our segment. Some very nice reviews coming in too.



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I'm hoping this website will be easier to update than my previous one. It's all pretty fresh and new though, so please let me know if you spot any typos, bad links etc..

Meanwhile, the most recent show I've designed, The Rememberers, has just opened. It's a co-production between Apples and Snakes and Birmingham Rep - in fact it's the start of the Rep's out-of-house season, while the building is being refurbished and the new 'super library' is built.

Anyway, it's a great show. The description '...
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