Lighting & Theatre
Teching at the Edinburgh Festival
This year I am not at the Edinburgh Festival, bucking a rule that has held for many years of my life. I have worked on a bundle of shows up there over several years, and […]
Read MoreCrazy weeks and sleep
It’s been a few crazy weeks. To summarize roughly, they went something like this… At the end of October, I was lucky enough to be a guest at Fantasycon, which this year was held in […]
Read MoreSome Days In The City
‘Tis the season of grass pollen and brown fluff, and all across London people are snuffling, coughing and choking their way through a gently, if variably beautiful summer. Growth is everywhere. Trees that five weeks […]
Read MoreSave Stage Lighting
In 2020 a new law will come into place across Europe which aims to make lighting more efficient. This is a Good Thing. Tungsten bulbs have, in the past, clocked in ridiculously high wattages for […]
Read MoreLet’s Go On A Journey!
Technicians: you’ve got a good bullshit metre. You gotta have one. And your bullshit metre is mostly right. Unfortunately the side-effect of this is that sometimes perfectly acceptable words which can be used in a […]
Read MoreMore Art Less Tools
I do hope I don’t get thrown out of the Association of Lighting Designers for this one… The ALD has a motto. It’s on its website, it’s on its magazine – ‘More Art Less Tools’. […]
Read MorePost Show Drinks
“Cat! The show went well! Come have a drink.” “Oh but I was going to go home I haven’t been home for five hundred years every part of my body hurts I can barely walk […]
Read MoreConversations With The Lighting Lady
“Ok so let’s update that to track and can we please put cue 86.5 with ‘at once sweet friend’ and we’re also going to….” “Hello.” “Oh. Hello. Sorry, I’m a bit….” “Are you the Lighting […]
Read MoreIt Never Rains
This blog has been quiet for a few weeks – apologies. All the life has been happening! To catch up on some of this, and because people sometimes wonder what a scribbler’s routine (hollow laughter!) […]
Read MoreSelf Doubt
Here it is… here it comes. Can you feel it? It’s there, just lurking on the edge of your awareness, needling… the voice of self-doubt. Everyone gets it. Me… I’ve always been lucky enough to […]
Read MoreIn Praise of… Pattern Recognition
To clarify – this was a dance show at the Platform Theatre in April 2016, rather than a book. It was put on by Alexander Whitley, and I was taken to see it by my […]
Read MorePosh actors
There’s a bit of an ongoing barny about how many deeply successful (mostly male) actors in Britain right now are posh. A mull…. It’s an argument not without a grain of truth to it. A […]
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