The tragic death of Molly Russell is really putting the toxicity and danger of social media into the spotlight. I wrote a little bit about my concerns around this the other day but I'd like to revisit it in light..
As regular readers of this blog will know during the lockdown I became fascinated by the spread of misinformation during and since the pandemic. In fact, I would say that my interest in this parallel universe has increased since the..
So at the time of writing the UK is still reeling from the first couple of weeks of having Liz Truss as our Prime Minister. To be fair to Ms Truss she didn't start from a winning position (ironically). The..
A while ago I wrote this blog about the responsibility of drama colleges to pay freelancers on time Today a director friend of mine posted a semi-regular tweet that I see from colleagues bemoaning the timeframe that it takes for freelancers..
I have a real love/hate relationship with social media, I both love and despise the power that it harnesses. I watch the harrowing footage of those brave women over in Iran as they undertake their #unveiledwalking protest, trying to ensure..
It's fair to say that the last couple of months have been quite hard going. Finding out as late as we did that a benefactor had on reflection decided not to give the college the money that we had been..
When covid hit and we were faced with the bizarre reality of being confined to our homes none of us could have guessed quite how long those "strange times" would last. When the theatres went dark in March 2020 it's..
It's been over a week now since The MTA announced that it was closing in Sept 2022. That's a week of everybody including me attempting to process the news. Having bizarrely gone through this week last year too I'm struck..
Having ranted several times this week over what I perceive to be the hypocrisy of Equity suddenly launching a mental health charter, I've chosen to timeline the events that led me to this annoyance. So Equity's charter was launched after..
The majority of dance and drama colleges will nowadays be hiring freelancers. My own college, The MTA, was built on a business model of almost exclusively using freelancers - as it just made more sense. I didn't need the same..