I make work that sits somewhere between physical theatre, clown, music, surrealist and achingly private diary entries.
I love to wail and scream and weep and bellow be alive and question who I am in the world right now.
And I love to learn from others who want to do the same.
Clips featured in the video -
opening audio - “Move House” - original composition pondering on why all my contemporaries have the same dream to move to an idyllic commune by the sea… What are we running from I wonder?
“Snookie” - is a embryonic creature, evolving from research for a new opera about a post-apocalyptic future where only slime-moulds and mushrooms have survived the nuclear holocaust.
“The Chaos of Villainy” - explored the allure of evil ideas on the psyche and the very human and real ability to believe want we want to believe through reinforced cognitive bias. The piece was a patchwork of texts from baddies of both fiction and reality, interspersed with operatic outbursts.
“Big Berg” - is a solo show exploring ideas of failure, achievement, what it means to be ‘important’. It follows the well thumbed journals of Antarctic explorers, with a surrealist twist.
“Wizwitch” - is a disillusioned rave wizard who roams parties and festivals.
“In Reno” - extract from collaboration with Waste Paper Opera Company, exploring love, expectation and 1980’s Las Vegas.
“The Conductor” - a simple character study exploring how I feel about the transportive power of music.
“Roquefort: The Woman who was found in a bin” - a wonderful woman with an operatic past and a blurry present, inspired by legendary surrealist artist Leonora Carrington’s novella The Hearing Trumpet.
“Big Berg” - an original composition from the show.
“Territories - Trickle-down Land” - extract from my music-theatre performance which transformed 9 songs I composed on a hitch-hike journey across Europe into a performance piece, exploring ideas of European identity, privilege and adventure (thanks to Edith P for this hit, though).
