by Iceandfire | May 4, 2010 | Blog |
In mid-April, we work-shopped the first draft of On the Record at the National Theatre Studio. A wonderful gift for which we are extremely grateful. Over two days, we prepared the play for a public reading, with the help of director Ed Viney (a former Director in...
by Iceandfire | Apr 29, 2010 | Blog |
Christine and I went to an interesting event the other night, held by Stellar Network, entitled “Sponsorship for Funding”. The idea was to help creatives understand and incorporate the need for corporate sponsorship in their development programmes. I was very...
by Iceandfire | Apr 16, 2010 | Blog |
As a college student, it is easy to live in a bubble: go to class, come home from class, go to rehearsal, come back from rehearsal, go to bed, etc. It becomes a cycle, an admittedly selfish one, where the only thing that matters is getting to where you need to be and...
by Iceandfire | Apr 7, 2010 | Blog |
A few months ago, I interviewed Faith, a 12 year old girl who was detained with her mother – twice – at Yarls Wood immigration detention centre. Her story, which will form part of a new script about immigration detention and a new viral film iceandfire is making for...
by Iceandfire | Apr 1, 2010 | Blog |
Reading Sara’s blog last week, I was pleased to learn that iceandfire have already received further requests for their new Outreach script, Getting On. At the Almeida Theatre on March 12th, we had been privileged to see a collection of nuanced and tender performances...
by Iceandfire | Mar 19, 2010 | Blog |
Another week, another outreach script is launched! On the 12th March we had a performance at London’s Almeida Theatre of Getting On, telling the true stories of growing older in 21st century Britain. The project was a year in the making, funded by The Funding Network...
by Iceandfire | Mar 15, 2010 | Blog |
The Outreach work of iceandfire became a fascination of mine almost immediately upon my arrival to the UK from Canada. I was on the hunt for a company that explored human rights through a verbatim performance medium and I became involved with iceandfire as an intern...
by Iceandfire | Mar 9, 2010 | Blog |
Draft two. Phew. Now it’s time to hear it read out by some actors and play with some staging ideas before getting it ready for rehearsal and production indien viagra. With the generous support of the National Theatre Studio, we’ll be doing that in mid-April. It’s...
by Iceandfire | Feb 18, 2010 | Blog |
There is an ad on television at the moment that really gets my goat. I have a cold shiver every time it’s on. No, it’s not the Go Compare opera man, it’s an ad for skincare that starts with the line “Your skin has 3 fundamental rights…” Skin doesn’t have rights, and I...
by Iceandfire | Feb 10, 2010 | Blog |
The tag line for our newest outreach script, Getting On, reads: ‘What does it mean to grow old in Britain today? And what does being ‘old’ mean anyway?’ When talking about such a diverse group of people spanning such a huge age range (over 50 years if we’re starting...
by Iceandfire | Jan 26, 2010 | Blog |
iceandfire celebrated the UN International Human Rights Day 2009 at LSE with a rehearsed reading of Broke. This bought the audience into connection with real-life experiences of people living in poverty in the UK – homelessness, unemployment, overwhelming debt...
by Iceandfire | Jan 19, 2010 | Blog |
iceandfire’s “Our Safe Space” Audiovisual Project, Sheffield. “Giving voice, providing a platform, skills development, social bonding, confidence building, breaking down barriers, community cohesion, racial equality” … the list of...
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