We’re currently out on tour and ensuring that we give the right welcome to all audience members is very important to us. That’s why every performance of Backstage In Biscuit Land is ‘relaxed’. I thought it might be useful to share our quick guide to what ‘relaxed’ means to us, with answers to some common questions about the concept.…
A week ago yesterday we celebrated six years of Touretteshero with a party at Battersea Arts Centre. There we had a tic drawing area where guests could choose phrases I’ve ticced and illustrate them. Last Monday I promised to share some of these with you, so here they are, twenty of the eighty amazing images produced at the party.…
Yesterday we started the UK tour of our stage show Backstage In Biscuit Land at the Nottingham Playhouse, and we’re back there this afternoon for a matinee. After that we’re heading off to Hull.
The touring team includes me and Chopin, Leftwing Idiot, our producer Jolie, and Finn, our driver.…
We’re off! Our tour’s kicked off with a sell-out show in Nottingham.
Five years ago Leftwing Idiot sent an email with the subject line: ‘We Can Be Heroes’. It read:
“Welcome to the official fledgling Touretteshero group email list. You are on this list because you have expressed an interest in developing and shaping Touretteshero to create something entirely positive and funny for people with and without Tourettes Syndrome… Please be in touch with each other as little or as often as is necessary to build a phenomenon.”…
On the 19th March 2014, I did something that was both terrifying and thrilling – I registered a show for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And I had no idea of the incredible adventures that were to come. What I did know was that it felt important to share, at one of the busiest performing arts festivals in the world, my experiences of Tourettes, and of the difficulties I’d had accessing theatre.…
The last few days have been emotional. On Friday Leftwing Idiot and I had our last full day at Oasis where we’ve worked for over five years.
Yesterday we were at the Battersea Arts Centre celebrating Touretteshero’s sixth birthday. Over 160 friends and supporters joined us for the party, many of who’ve been with us right from the start.…
Six years ago I left an interesting job that I felt I was doing well to go back to a profession that had first won my heart as a teenager – playwork. Playwork, an occupation that many people have never heard of, has its roots in the early adventure playground movement but it’s now studied and practiced in lots of different contexts.…
For Christmas Fat Sister and King Russell gave me two wooden boxes each with six drawers. When I first unwrapped them I looked quizzically at my sibling. I knew the drawers had belonged to my mum until a few weeks earlier when, unwanted, she’d passed them on.…
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