Kirsty and I met on Wales Lab Summer Camp 2014. Over coffee, gazing out at the sea, we talked about our work, about being artists, bravery, failure and fear. I told her about a little idea I was noodling away at. A one woman show for a family audience inspired by a children's book called The Paper Bag Princess. (Best children's book ever!) I loved Kirsty's design work and the idea of her creating a puppet 'Paper Bag Girl' and a world of paper was very exciting. We took the i

I balance on an 8ft Ladder and juggle for a living. It’s one of the things I can do. Not showing off or anything (well maybe a little) It took me 3 months to learn. Then 3 months to do it confidently in front of an audience. Then another 3 months to recreate the paralysing fear I felt at the begining of my training in order to give the audience the theatrics of ‘danger’. When an audience watches me climb the ladder, balance at the top AND juggle, they are mostly seeing my su

Likely Story Theatre - creators of “mashed up stories, sideways thinking and visual play” (John McGrath, National Theatre Wales) - have launched a Kickstarter campaign to build a unique self-contained set for their brand new family theatre project Almost Always Muddy. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744639957/almost-always-muddy-immersive-playful-family-theat Alarmed by the trend to remove all aspects of risk from children’s lives, LIkely Story Theatre have created a s