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 I resolutely wasn’t doing a round up for 2020. I mean what on earth were we going to round up? This year has, with no exaggeration, broken our hearts in theatre. There’s no other way to put it. We watched our industry disappear overnight. We watched it be left behind for support, be forgotten. We watchedContinueContinue reading “2020 Theatre Reflection (Sort of)”

 Let’s talk rejections! Over on Twitter, I’ve been doing a thing this year: every time I get a rejection, I tweet about it with a gif of Andrew Scott, and add £5 to my ‘rejection pot’. The rejection pot was not my idea, the tweeting Andrew Scott gifs very much were. Why do it? Firstly,ContinueContinue reading “What a Year of Tweeting Rejections Taught Me (with some help from the Hot Priest)”

Contemplating God and rejection and hotness.  Let’s talk rejections! Over on Twitter, I’ve been doing a thing this year: every time I get a rejection, I tweet about it with a gif of Andrew Scott, and add £5 to my ‘rejection pot’. The rejection pot was not my idea, the tweeting Andrew Scott gifs very much were.RecliningContinueContinue reading “What a Year of Tweeting Rejections Taught Me (with some help from the Hot Priest)”

Artwork: Lean Dorion Previously I wrote about what teaching in these strange times has given me- both as an academic and as a human. And so, it also seems right that I write about what learning at the same time did for me. 12 weeks ago, I started a course with the University of Alberta. AndContinueContinue reading “What Learning Again Taught Me: Indigenous Studies MOOC with University of Alberta”

This week I finished teaching a 6-week course, I’m in the middle of teaching another 6-week block of another and I’ve had a few ad-hoc workshops around that too. And after what turned out to be an almost full year away from teaching for the first time in a decade, and the general 2020-ness ofContinueContinue reading “What Teaching Again Taught Me”

Tom Hanks waving a typewriter is a writing moodThis was not the blog I planned to put up today. I had another one edited and ready to go. It’s not a blog I have time to write. But it’s one born out of passion and frustration and those are usually the best/worst ones right? This reallyContinueContinue reading “Pick Me Choose Me Love Me- on writing, on giving up, on kindness.”

Add captionThis week I finished teaching a 6-week course, I’m in the middle of teaching another 6-week block of another and I’ve had a few ad-hoc workshops around that too. And after what turned out to be an almost full year away from teaching for the first time in a decade, and the general 2020-nessContinueContinue reading “What Teaching Again Taught Me”

Across September I ran or walked a mile every day. This was part of a challenge set by my friend Jeff. A huge advocate of running for mental as well as physical wellbeing, Jeff himself is running every day this decade…so a month seemed like the least I could do challenge wise.  Why do it? ContinueContinue reading “What Running for 30 Days taught me”