Nina – a story about me and Nina Simone …..the Uk tour dates

Here’s the Nina Story tour in full (30 Jan 2018 to 24 March 2018) with box office links:- The Lowry (30 Jan – 3 Feb) https://www.thelowry.com/events/nina-a-story-about-me-and-nina-simone Exeter Northcott (5-6 Feb) https://exeternorthcott.co.uk/calendar/nina-a-story-about-nina-and-me/ Leicester Curve (9-10 Feb) http://www.curveonline.co.uk/whats-on/shows/nina/ Ipswich New Wolsey (20-22 Feb) Nina – A Story about Me and Nina Simone Cardiff Richard Burton Theatre WCMD … Continue reading →

Little Red sets off to Manchester and Kendal on new adventures!

Here’s some exciting news for a Monday – – our fantastic co production (with those talented folks at Action Transport) is returning to the stage in December.  Little Red is off on a whole set of new adventures, thanks to a new partnership with Z arts and The Brewey, Kendal. And if that wasn’t enough … Continue reading →

Artist International Development Award

Some exciting news in the in box! I’ve just learnt I’ve been awarded one of the final Artists International Development Fund Awards, a jointly funded programme between the British Council and Arts Council England. The award is to undertake a 3 week research project over 6 months, working towards the development of a new mid-scale … Continue reading →

The buzz on Horny Handed Tons of Soil

Now on tour….check out the trailer. And these great production shots are by Brian Roberts: A modern day Under Milk Wood Chris McCabe, Poetry Library, Southbank Centre Listen to Extract from Lizzie Nunnery’s ;Horny Handed Tons of Soil – on tour summer 18 by phrasedandconfused #np on #SoundCloud Horny Handed Tons of Soil…steals and lovingly … Continue reading →

The Leaving of Liverpool

No not the track made famous by the Dubliners (and no that’s not the Dubliners below), and no I’m not going to California…. I can clearly remember sitting in the auditorium of Unity as the incoming Artistic Director, watching the technical rehearsals of Rumplestilsken.  Three years later, no not just 3 years later, after 3 AMAZING … Continue reading →

Grrr….overly complicated train ticketing

Actually this blog boils down to one thing. That if our train ticketing system is too complicated for the barriers and two different members of station staff then something must be wrong. I was (er am) travelling back north this morning (after a couple of days with the Unity / Riksteatern company as they prepare … Continue reading →

Nina – a story about me and Nina Simone to tour in 2018

Some more great news this morning as Arts Council of England announced the latest round of strategic touring awards….. (see the full PR here). Congrats @unitytheatre @jazz_north @arcstockton & @LeedsArtGallery on yr strategic touring funding! https://t.co/DicU00DA2u #culturematters pic.twitter.com/H0MW3s6YbW — ACE North (@ace_thenorth) July 12, 2017 Our award will help us tour our co-production with Sweden’s … Continue reading →

From Somalia to Liverpool a brilliant week of new work at Unity

Its a bit of a bumper week for new theatre at Unity this week. First up two shows as part of the enterprising Liverpool Arab Arts Festival. Based on real events and featuring the epic lyrical tradition of Somalia, The Crows Plucked Your Sinews is a unique exploration of the violence of empire and the poetry of resistance. … Continue reading →

Z Arts and STUN artist lab… for BAME or Disabled Artist interested in Making Theatre for Children and Young People?

Some fragments, in the build up to introducing a great opportunity…. Coming to see Rumplestilsken at the Unity before I’d even started.  It was a packed schools show….the children quite literally representing the diversity of Liverpool.  Yet on stage we were mono culture – our fantastic cast were all white. Jonathan Goodacre, formally of Tara … Continue reading →