Hello! This is a blog post update from Aruhan - Actor, Comedian, Writer, Singer and Bat (Lovin’) Ambassador for the Bat Conservation Trust.
The NYMT is under new management.
The script of 1979 first came to me in 2019 and if I’m honest, despite loving the play, I wanted to run a mile from anything political at that time.
When I read £1 Thursdays by Kat Rose-Martin, I was immediately drawn to the first thing in the script which says ‘none of the characters should be presented as rough.
In a world where people were busy binge-watching cat videos and falling down internet rabbit holes, the noble art of theatre faced an existential crisis.
I first heard about the book Can Bears Ski? on the BBC news.
If you would have told me, 20 years ago, I would be leading Intermission Youth in celebrating 15 years of youth work and theatre, I would not have believed you.
For many years, we have been enjoying adapting classic stories such as The Three Little Pigs.
Maria Callas, an extraordinary force in the world of opera, possessed a mesmerising ability to convey authentic emotion through her singing.
27 years ago, in 1997, I co-founded a theatre company with five friends.
I am super excited about bringing our adaptation of Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book to the stage because it is a combination of two of my big passions – play AND reading.
It’s a particularly interesting moment in time for new musical theatre writing, and more specifically, British new musical theatre writing.
All history is cyclical, it’s not just Tory prejudice we’re facing and when you chop the head off a hydra, only two grow back.
This October, Monique Touko will direct Roy Williams’ Days of Significance at Milton Court Studio Theatre, with Guildhall School actors in the title roles.
In 2015, I happened to walk past a striking poster with an image of a African man in what appeared to be some kind of high ranking military garb with a glass of dark liquor in one hand and a cigar in the other.
When I graduated from Mountview in 2015 the word neurodivergent did not exist.
It feels bleak for theatre at the moment.
My show LORENZO is a tribute to a remarkable man called Lorenzo, who I lived with during Lockdown, as his end-of-life carer.
When I began re-reading the original material I instantly felt drawn to a circus backdrop in terms of design and aesthetic.
Black on Black is my solo dance performance that explores queerness, Blackness and the body as an archive.
