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What’s the point? Practical musings on art and economics
In the midst of festival mania, yesterday I went and heard Tony Benn speak. There’s a film being made about his life and they were previewing some of it and then Mark Thomas was interviewing him....
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Taking Edinburgh home with me (but leaving the rain)
Last night I made a list of the theatre shows I have seen in Edinburgh this month, as this adventure draws to a close. Tomorrow it is home time. I’ve counted 19, 11 of which were free. And I’m going...
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A Ruby by any other name…
Do any of you remember a campaign run by the Body Shop in 1998 featuring the “Ruby” doll? In case you don’t, here she is: She was swiftly shut down by Mattel, the owners of Barbie, who felt she was...
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A handful of hope
This post is bringing you a little round-up of the things that have inspired me this past week, the things that reassure me that there is good in the world still. I’m about to head off to Burkina Faso...
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2012: the year that was
It seems to be normal in the world of blogging to round up an old year with your favourite posts from the past year. I know I’m coming to the party late. Looking back on the year, and the blogs I have...
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My week with Walter
It’s book group time again! I am part of a virtual book group called Transit Lounge hosted by my friend Kelley at www.kelleynikondeha.com. Each month we read a book, in our different corners of the...
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A Russian play in Hackney, and our need to escape
Recently we took an outing to Hackney, to that outpost of the inner-city voted “worst place to live in Britain” by some TV show hosted by Phil Spencer and Kirsty Allsop about six or seven years ago. I...
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Serenading the City
I promised you news of my first writing project this week, so this is the story of Rubies in the Smoke. (No, not the novel by Philip Pullman, he had only one Ruby but we have four). Our theatre...
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The fight in me
Mental taxation in a woman can lead to atrophy, mania, or worse – leave her incapacitated as a mother. This is not an opinion. It is a fact of nature. Dr Henry Maudsley, British psychiatrist...
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The play I (never) wrote
You might remember that while pregnant I decided to undertake two epic writing projects. I was going to write my first book and write the new show for my theatre company, The Ruby Dolls. (Clearly...
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On identity crises
When I left formal education behind me in 2004 (I was 23 and had got through school, university and drama school without pausing for breath), I planned to be an actress and I became a PA. No offence...
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