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... by Iceandfire | Aug 16, 2010 | Blog |
‘You who live safe in your warm houses, you who find, returning in the evening, hot food and friendly faces, consider if this is a man…’ These opening lines of the Primo Levi poem that prefaces his book If This Is A Man, came into my head as I prepared to go on the... by Iceandfire | Jul 19, 2010 | Blog |
I was in a disused World War II bunker under Dalston Junction, trying to convince Christine – writer, Artistic Director, and (most importantly) my new boss – that this bunker could, like, you know, really be Iraq. Or, for that matter, Gaza. This could be... by Iceandfire | May 24, 2010 | Blog |
There’s an interview in today’s Metro with ‘rockpera’ start Meatloaf, where he is lamenting the death of the album due to current zeitgeist of downloading individual tracks. The ‘itunes effect’, he claims has caused us all to be lazy listeners and that “ten years ago... by Iceandfire | May 5, 2010 | Blog |
Asylum Dialogues, Sheffield University, 19.04.2010 ‘How come Mary got moved all over the country and put in prison?’ As we squeezed one more group onto the tables at the back, closing the doors on the 130 people packed into the room, it was clear the word...
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