Goodbye Crocodile Rock is my most recent venture. I wish to develop the ideology of the Crocodile Rock, using it to make people smile and understand about the issues portrayed on stage. Teaching people to accept themselves and express who they truly are. Click here for more information on Goodbye Crocodile Rock

Now. Here. This. is a new-musical written by Hunter Bell and Susan Blackwell. The musical contains four people- all from different backgrounds and different experiences, coming together to a museum. Finding out information about the history that relates heavily on their own lives. Now. Here. This. was a semi-professional production by The Canary Theatre Company. I became a member of this company during Now. Here. This. and we are currently planning more productions in the distant future.

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What do you see? was a show created by Anne-Marie Chave. The piece was created to pay tribute to the memories of the older generation. Using a verbatim style, we used members of our family and portrayed them in the setting of a care-home: I was my Grandmother Patricia. The way in which I researched and became my grandmother was through asking her questions and studying her movement and vocal patterns. All this research was necessary as I wanted pay testimony to her life and memories. As a performer, I had to carry this duty within my role. Anne-Marie helped the cast keep this realism through a variety of workshops, making sure we portrayed our fathers, grandfathers, mothers and grandmothers perfectly.

Cole Not Dole! was a play about the 1980’s miners’ strike written by Jake Ord. Ord set the show in a northern pub, following the lives of a few individuals towards the end of the strike. The show was melodrama in format, the matters in the play are based upon the truth. Following real events and ideologies that happened during the time of the strike. It was an emotional and hard-to-comprehend piece, mostly because we weren’t present in the 80’s when the strike was happening. We had to ask family members, visit northern towns that the strike effected, go to pub’s that miners will have gone to. Jake wanted to encapsulate the feeling of being under the social pressures of living as a lower class citizen during the miners’ strike.

I took a technical role in 5 Daily Routine’s by Megan Elvidge and Savannah Barnes. The piece was a dance piece focusing on daily routine, looking at life in a contemporary light. I wrote and edited the music together for this piece, along with gathering voice recordings about energy. Click above to listen to the track.

Growing Pains was a show written by Rachel Cree, it was a dance and drama piece inspired by the Nutcracker. I took the role of an ensemble member, playing many different roles. The story followed ‘Clara’ a young girl who falls asleep at Christmas time. As she’s asleep, a fairy godmother enters her mind to teach her about growing up. Clara finds that as she is awoken, she is already a grown up. The show was comedic at times with a subtle sadness to the modern stresses of life.

I am currently a member of Edgelands Theatre Company, a company who create work based on the sanctity of life. As a company, our motto is “Save and salvage” because we use thrown away and unwanted objects and materials to create work with.  The work we create has caring political messages with it, commenting on throwaway culture and showing audience members that things aren’t worth throwing away