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
Category: Interviews
“Good art is always communicating the unspeakable and unknowable” | Rob Maltby on the fundamental connection to humanity at the core of his art
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
“The tropes I was most interested to tease were the ones that had most affected my romantic life” | Writer and Director Billie Esplen on inverting romcom clichés in Cowboys and Lesbians
Tell us about your show Cowboys and Lesbians. Cowboys and Lesbians is the little nerdy gay child of my heart! It's a queer rom-com about two teenage best friends, Nina and Noa, who start writing a sexy cowboy film together, and may or may not figure out they fancy each other in the process… What … Continue reading “The tropes I was most interested to tease were the ones that had most affected my romantic life” | Writer and Director Billie Esplen on inverting romcom clichés in Cowboys and Lesbians
