A seven hour flight on Ethiopian Airlines. I am here in Addis for four days. It's MONDAY.. Meseret meets me at the airport. Meseret iis my friend from The ECA. The first thing to do is check Read more [...]
Four Days in Addis.
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We Are Many.
The artists in this blog have all been fostered adopted or in children's homes. I know them all. Their success, I believe, is in spite of what happened to them and not because of it. Read more [...]
The Report. Sold Out. Few hidden tickets left.
The report will be at The Royal Court on April 30th. It came about because of my blog on March 20th. In 18 days a team came together: a director, a producer, an actor and a theatre. Tickets Read more [...]
THE EVIDENCE. THE REPORT.
Every three months since the day I was born and for the subsequent 18 years my every movement was recorded. As my friend Jenni Fagan wrote in Panopticon “I was an experiment”. I received the files Read more [...]
The Ceramic Mountain and me
Thankyou for your kind responses to my last blog. By the end of the coming week I'll be able to share the venue, the time and the date. The director is John McGrath . I am in Hull right Read more [...]
THE REPORT.
Please forgive me for putting aside the story from the previous blog. I will settle it in the future. A few weeks ago I sat down in a beige interview room in the legal district of Leeds City Read more [...]
The Forgiveness Project
I thought forgiveness was exclusive to religion like an ocean to a buoy. I stayed the heck away from it. What happened to me was unforgivable. I could not forgive. I turned my ship to the open sea Read more [...]
I HATE POETRY
I was speaking at an academic conference in Plymouth University. The conference was called "Beyond Words: Privileging the Unspoken Arts & Communities in a Posthuman World". After an hours speech Read more [...]
“Something Dark” on the National Syllabus.
After a sell out tour of Gold From The Stone I am proud to share the news that Something Dark will be published by Oberon books. Something Dark will be included on the national Syllabus. A dramatic Read more [...]
Raising the game by Moonlight & How Positive Discrimination Works.
A stranger asked me what racism was like so I slapped him. Hard. As he lay on the floor I leaned over him and said "what's racism like?". He bemoaned that he wasn't racist cause he had a black Read more [...]