by Iceandfire | May 11, 2016 | Blog |
This is a question that plagues many people working in the human rights field. How do we speak to the not-already-converted? The skeptics? Even the haters? Our Actors for Human Rights model is effective. We know that it has motivated people to get inolved in the...
by Iceandfire | May 4, 2016 | Blog, Coming up |
The year so far… As plans get underway for the premiere of The Island Nation, our new production about the end of the Sri Lankan civil war (October/November at the Arcola, generously supported by Arts Council England), we have also completed an R&D phase on...
by Iceandfire | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog, Coming up |
Recent Happenings We’ve been hard at work creating a new musical about long-term unemployment (yes, you read that right!) with Seiriol Davies and Company of Angels called We Are Scroungers. We have also established the Adah Kay Memorial Commission. In honour of...
by Iceandfire | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog |
Hello Actors! There have been some changes here at Actors for Human Rights HQ (also known as ice&fire Theatre). A big THANK YOU to everyone who came to our Reboot Workshop Day in June (pictured above). It was really useful, providing us with a lot of new ideas, as...
by Iceandfire | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog |
By Freddie Machin Through live performance, ice&fire draws attention to human rights abuses all around the world. But for the individual here in the UK it can often feel we have little agency in affecting the course of national or international decision making....
by Iceandfire | Feb 20, 2015 | Blog |
By Freddie Machin Refugee Week 2015 will take place on the 15-21 June, just a month after the UK general election. And even in that short interim, the political discourse around the status of refugees, migrants and those seeking asylum may change substantially. Ahead...
by Iceandfire | Jan 10, 2014 | Blog |
Reading about the Aryans who came to Pakistan in 1500 BCE, about how they were expert horsemen and aggressive fighters, armed with iron weapons, the image I see is Brad Pitt. Leather breastplate, astride a horse and speaking with that vaguely historical sentence...
by Iceandfire | Apr 5, 2013 | Blog |
Written by Hasani for The Independent Blog – Hasani is one of the participants in the Souvenirs project ‘What happened to me, the marks on my body, the memories, they are going to be my souvenirs.’These words are those of a victim and survivor of torture...
by Iceandfire | Mar 24, 2013 | Blog |
Our Artist-in-Residence, playwright Hannah Davies, reflects on her experience with us during 2012 in developing Art of Dying, now called The Nine O’Clock Slot. I was invited to work with ice&fire in 2012 on the research and development process for their Art...
by Iceandfire | Jan 25, 2013 | Blog |
By Annecy Hayes We have just completed phase two of the research and development work on our new piece, The Art of Dying. The process was frenetic, challenging and stimulating and full of important discoveries about the future shape and content of the piece. I’m...
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