Exhausted I return to the stage after the applause and sat on stage for the beginning of the question time when a small woman of about sixty came and hugged me. “My son” she said “Who I searched for because of you. Remember him?”. I nodded in the affirmative. . Those moments after finishing a performance I’m open. The body and heart and brain seem to be in the process of recollecting themselves. It’s a vulnerable state.   more »

This is the maiden tour date of Why I Don’t Hate White People and I am nervous I have been coming to crewe for years. The performing arts college is transformed since it was incorporated into Manchester University and rebuilt.   more »

I felt, as I walked off stage, that I could lift the Southbank centre with my bare hands and slide it onto the thames and sail her out out, out into the open sea.   more »