Come Study With Me
MMU have just announced a series of competitive AHRC funded PhD studentships, and one of them is a project that I’ve designed with Professor Steve Hawley from MIRIAD. Full details are online here. Look...
View ArticleMy life with furbies.
I’ve been reading Sherry Turkle’s amazing book Alone Together recently and it has inspired me to think about one of the ‘creatures’ she was studying in the book. She looked at the impact that so-called...
View ArticleThe rise of the furbies
Well, despite feeling like death warmed over I managed to get to MMU today in order to launch the performance project I will be doing with 13 second year CTP students. I was inspired by Sherry Turkle...
View ArticleThe Furby Watch
I’m loving following the exploits of the Furbies that my students are caring for over the Easter break. They are blogging about it over here and so far they’ve had a lot of adventures. Some of them...
View ArticleWorkshop Number One: NPAK – Yerevan
I gave my first workshop today which was focused on some basic devising skills. It was a bit tricky as I had only 2 hours and an unknown set of participants in terms of their level of skill, knowledge...
View ArticleA very busy Monday
Today was a very busy day of meetings, visits to rehearsals and a look at some new Armenian Theatre. My morning started with a wander to Opera park where I had a coffee and omelet before meeting Narek...
View ArticleLast Day in Armenia
I am at London Heathrow now for my epic layover before heading back to Manchester. I managed to sleep for most of the flight, which was good considering I got about 1.5 hours sleep in the flat before...
View ArticleEasing back into it?
For the past several weeks I’ve been trying to stay offline as much as possible while visiting family in the US and going to see some Olympics tennis. I haven’t been entirely successful, but I have...
View ArticleTranslating PANTS! to fit our space
Yesterday, we had to move hotels for one night because the hotel we’re primarily staying in was completely full for the night. Our hosts helped us to move to an old building that is partially a hotel...
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