THEATRE | SUMMER 2026 ON THE STORY Every person on the planet who has heard of Shakespeare knows the image of Hamlet holding a skull in his father’s graveyard, saying: “Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him.” And yet, we don’t. Beyond a name, and that Yorick was a jester who Hamlet knew as a child, …
THEATRE | AUTUMN 2025 ON THE STORY Set against the backdrop of widespread social and political unrest in turn-of-the-century Tsarist Russia, Oscar Wilde’s little-known first play is a gripping and provocative story of idealism, conspiracy, and corruption. As social unrest sweeps across Russia, a young woman by the name of Vera Sabouroff travels to Moscow …
THEATRE | SUMMER 2025 ON THE STORY Learlike reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear from the perspective of his four daughters (the liar, the follower, the silent one and the fool) as they grapple with their father’s legacy of abuse, power and internalised misogyny. This story advocates self-expression, designed specifically for young women who often feel disconnected from classical text …
THEATRE | WINTER 2025 ON THE STORY Based on the short story from Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny, that was nominated for the international Booker prize, The Head tells the disturbingly visceral tale of a woman who finds a head growing in her toilet, and following her throughout her life, from the depths of the white porcelain. Kat …
MUSIC THEATRE | SUMMER 2024 ON THE STORY To tackle the evergrowing problem of White Fragility and Saviourism, I restaged Caryl Churchill’s play The After-Dinner Joke from 1978 about the dark side of British charities, as a live radio performance set in that very year. The wobbly mirror held up to society is one of …
THEATRE | AUTUMN 2025 ON THE STORY Based on the lived experience of Ariela Nazar-Rosen, make the Bed is a performance that explores an anxiety attack in real time, showing what it’s like when your thoughts consume you whole. During the particular spiral the show is based on, Ariela was struck by a bed-bug scare, isolating her …
PUPPETRY | SUMMER 2024 ON THE STORY There is nothing more powerful than imagining something that makes the world around you more interesting. And there is nothing more frustrating than being told that you can’t or shouldn’t. The Boy Who Couldn’t Sit Still is a dance between a boy and the chair he’s been told to stay in. What happens …
THEATRE | SUMMER 2022 ON THE STORY Olympe is a twohander about words and war. About Olympe de Gouges, the extraordinary playwright who fought for women’s rights during the French Revolution, and was guillotined because of it. After feeling deeply insulted by a sign in a bookstore, a young woman’s spiraling thoughts freeze her to …
MUSIC THEATRE | WINTER 2021 ON THE STORY De Megalomaan (The Megalomaniac) is Dutch music theatre about a young person’s inability to cope with the loss of dreams. I wrote and staged it as a storytelling event, where the audience joins actors and musicians on stage and all theatricality is deconstructed to the bare minimum, …