For the past 40 years, Oily Cart has been creating theatre to delight children andtheir families, providing access to the arts they may not otherwise get. I was thrilled to becontacted by the team to ask if I’d be interested in an interview with them on their recentshow A World Beneath Us, and their mission […]
Thanks to the team at Chloé Nelkin Consulting, I was given the tremendous opportunity to interview Tilly Lee-Kronick and Jonny Leitch of Head over Wheels, a company of disabled and non disabled artists fusing aerial work with circus! Their newest venture, Anchored in Air is currently touring the country as part of Without Walls 2024. […]
I’m always going to be grateful for theatre: it has helped me forge the most valuable friendships I have in my life, helped me nurture my own creativity in terms of my blog and my podcast, ensured I’ve broadened my horizons in terms of the kind of pieces I choose to see and enriched my […]
For reasons other than “gunpowder, treason & plot”, November 5th is a date I’ll remember, for it marked the end of a particularly difficult chapter in my life with the arrival of a new wheelchair! Some of you may remember that I’ve been struggling with particularly intense back pain as a result of my seating […]
Some of you may remember back in July when I posted an update regarding the ongoing saga of my wheelchair’s seat and my back pain. In that update, I shared that I had an appointment booked provisionally for September to look at my seating, provisionally of course given everything going on with the pandemic. Well, […]
Hi all, I hope you’re keeping safe & well in these strange times! I just wanted to drop by with an update for anyone interested… Some of you will know that at the end of February, I had a staff shake up and needed to move back home while we searched for a new personal […]
Following up on my previous post, I just wanted to give everyone an update following my appointment with the specialist seating service on Wednesday. We talked through my issues and I’m pleased to say that I had an empathetic ear, and of course my PA Bobbi had my back. It really does make all the […]
In school, I had a particular teacher, my art teacher, who I had a really great bond with. He had a great sense of humour, was a huge influence on my taste in music (thanks to him I properly found Guns N’ Roses, pre American Idiot Green Day, Queen and a whole host of other […]
When I see shows, I like to try and get my thoughts up on here as soon as possible, otherwise it feels a bit redundant in my mind to do it at all. With some shows, that’s really easy to do – what I want to say comes very easily. However, I’m reminded that all […]
I’ve been going to the theatre regularly for eight years. That’s eight years of falling in love with stories, characters, words, music and stagecraft. I love this industry, I really do – it brings so much joy to my life in a whole host of ways – both big and small. I think an […]
Wheelie Stagey 