A look back on the David Hoyle show I worked on at Chelsea Theatre, including pictures, ideas from the audience and press coverage.
Why David Hoyle is the best teacher you never had
A cabaret show I helped create, The Prime of Ms David Hoyle, explores alternative, utopian sources of education
Rev Billy: 5 ways performers can become activists
The leading performer-campaigner suggests five ways to make the theatre of public space work for your cause
Not Television’s top 10 posts of 2014
A round-up of 10 favourite blog posts from Not Television’s first year, 2014, on subjects including Mat Fraser, Alternative Miss World, Leake St graffiti tunnel and the threat of luxury redevelopment
Carried on others’ arms: an uplifting inaugural Not Television Festival
A report on the inaugural Not Television festival at Chelsea Theatre, a weekend of shows involving collaboration between performers and audience members and the special atmosphere that resulted
The Not Television Festival – this weekend!
The Not Television Festival is almost upon us! It doesn’t seem long ago that I was chatting to Francis Alexander, the artistic director of Chelsea Theatre, about the spirit of engagement that underpins Come With Me If You Want To Live, the cabaret night we’ve put on at the theatre twice now. Why couldn’t we […]
Introducing the Not Television Festival!
One of the joys of doing a blog is that you get to celebrate the things you like just cos you like them. Since Not Television launched at the end of 2013, I’ve had the chance to do a bit of that in real life too, programming some of the acts I admire at Come […]
The Anxiety Box speaks!
Last night was the first edition of Come With Me If You Want To Live, the quarterly cabaret show I’m putting on for Chelsea Theatre. I was really chuffed at how it all went: there was an incredible pop-up exhibition of David Hoyle’s paintings, with guided tour; cheeky vegetable sculptures by Rachel Porter; typically brilliant lip-synchery […]
This machine kills anxiety: cabaret vs late capitalism
As you’ll have noticed, there’s a good bit of anxiety around these days. I’ve got loads. You probably have too. I’m anxious about global things, like geopolitical instability and climate change; societal things, like employment prospects and dodgy urban planning; and personal things, like having a substandard body and shortchanging important relationships. Most people, […]
A bit of a whirl
Dear me, it’s been way too long since I was on here. I know it’s a cliché about blogs that you start enthusiastically and then let them tail off, and in that respect I seem to have become a cliché pretty quickly. My excuse for such negligence is that I’ve been doing lots of other […]
