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 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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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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