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The blog has been so quiet, so quiet. First I was healing from a burnout. Then slowly getting back to making, learning boundaries, learning that there is a limit to me. Then I got busy, again, but different way this time – at least, I think it´s different. It feels different. It´s not the amountContinueContinue reading “Sheep! and burnouts”

I have not been posting here in a long while, I believe. Been busy. Busy living. Busy making theatre. Busy burning out because funding takes so much time and effort, and as a freelance maker you try to do everything yourself to get funding to get other people to work with you to – It´sContinueContinue reading “Did I run away with the fairies?”

Why would I write a word when a word is not read. Be ambitious, the parrots repeat, be ambitious, their feathers crimson. Bloodbath. Depression. Burnout. Black liquid, ink pouring from the wounds. Stains on paper obscuring whatever it was that you needed to be said. “Chat soon.” Another part-time lover messages. Chat soon. Words shouldContinueContinue reading “Parrots”

Tomorrow, Thursday 28th of April is Poetry Day Ireland – and as part of that, I’ll be doing my solo performance of poetic tarot readings called Poetry Fortunes. It’s a one-on-one performance that creates chance poetry through a special set of tarot cards and a lovely break from the day to day! In Zoom, orContinueContinue reading “Written in the stars!”

I spent the last two weeks in a black box called theatre creating the world of a play called THE OTHER WORLD, where audiences are invited to travel to Utopia. They arrive at the station of The Unfathomable Travel Agency, where they are directed to the waiting area. A train station, an airport, a liminalContinueContinue reading “This other world – a play, a process.”

First of all, thanks to Taike & Galway County Council for the support I have received toward completing this play, which, as the headline suggests, is without a name. The play will be an immersive experience with themes of civilization and wilderness, care and control, and their extremes. It grew out of talks we hadContinueContinue reading “Too many working titles – a play in progress”

Last year around this time I got an email from a stranger asking to read my script that had been shortlisted for Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize. For some reason, I had not got the message about my own success, and was baffled for a moment. That play was written before and just happened to fitContinueContinue reading “Wilderness and Civilization – Need and Thought”

One of my artistic interests for a few years now has been the amount of “real” and the amount of “story” in any given circumstance. Obviously, we can’t get outside our own experience to ever really touch the raw reality, but there can be tremendous differences in how close we are. For me, the interestContinueContinue reading “How a Daydreamer got fond of reality”

This week, we have had the first two meetings of Remote Control, an artist development programme run by Brú Theatre, the Town Hall Theatre & Galway Dance Project. I’m one of the four artists selected to take part and excited to get to work. I’ll be looking at stories related to Inishmore, where I amContinueContinue reading “News! News!”

Glass Half Full Theatre asked for a two minute monologue containing ten spesific words, and even when this wasn’t chosen as the weekly monologue, they did enjoy reading it – so you might, as well. Ten words underneath the piece. DISSOCIATION Brush teeth. Gargle. Make a pot of coffee. Eat toast, but it tastes likeContinueContinue reading “Dissociation – a piece written for Glass Half Full Theatre’s weekly challenge for playwrights”