Wales is a community of communities that celebrates its difference. In celebrating that difference, we must also respect the differences of others. My devolutionary texts are warnings, that with freedom we do not replicate the logic of deference.
Tag: theatre
I personally went through a period of confusion around the climate crisis because the discourse around it used to be quite singularly around end of the world, whereas my sense was that there was something much more personal, philosophical, ethical, and present than an imminent doom…
I hope to leave audiences with an acute awareness of their individual and collective power. I hope the theatre I make helps people feel alive. In order to get there, I think audiences need to be radically welcomed. They need to feel like they belong and have a vital role to play.
Symbiosis is a source of inspiration, as a way of rethinking planetary life, sociability, knowledge, mutual help, relationships, care, community, all of it in order to stimulate a world where diversity and multiplicity can thrive.
Crisis is all we know. We live our whole lives in the context of escalating planetary transformation, and the ground we stand on has never been steady. Theatre is what I do, it’s how I choose to live my life, but the crisis is the air I breathe…
Ever since I’ve been here, tending to this wreck of a place,
my anger’s become a mountain. I scale it every day.
Good for the muscles, they say. Poison for the mind. (you)
Need to lie down for a while, rest those bones. Amazing you’re still alive…
PEPA: I stopped farming a long time ago. Hurt my back.
And the fish – I leave them alone now.
SARA: You’ve given up?
PEPA: I don’t give up on nature.
Perhaps nature has given up on me. Like with you…