Tell us about your show, Don’t. Make. Tea. A dark comedy thriller, Don’t. Make. Tea. is a witty ridiculing of the welfare state. Imagine a near future benefits regime as seen through the assessment of Chris, a disabled woman who is forced to claim benefits. With bitingly satirical dialogue and cutting-edge accessible staging interwoven through … Continue reading “There is just so much to mine around how disabled people are treated” | Artistic Director Robert Softley-Gale on the Birds of Paradise dark comedy set in tomorrow’s disability benefit assessment

How did you get into art? I think that I have always been into it! I don’t know about that, I know it is the kind of thing that every artist likes to think of in retrospect, but I think that the crystallisation of it came when I was about 17, when I realised that, … Continue reading “Good art is always communicating the unspeakable and unknowable” | Rob Maltby on the fundamental connection to humanity at the core of his art