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Sep 10, 2020 11 tweets 12 min read Read on X
From tomorrow I will be posting a song clip (and video link) from one of our 9 in person SIGNAL concerts EVERY SINGLE DAY. Our archive now feels a bit big to dig through for some, so consider this a slow tour through the past three years of disruptive new UK musical theatre. Image
I hope you might journey along with us #DailySIGNAL @ALPmusicals
Use It Or Lose by @sheep_soup
From the new musical Hoarding
#DailySIGNAL
Everybody Loves A Lie by @WeAreBottleCap
From the new musical Ride
#DailySIGNAL
So glad to be directing The Limit by this amazing team @CSSDLondon
I Told A Lie by @BatemanConley
From the new musical The Fabulist Fox Sister
A lie double bill for this weekend's #DailySIGNAL
This incredible team performed at all 9 @hclublondon SIGNAL concerts. Through these concerts they finished writing this show.
Overnight 2.0 by @TheTobyMarlow @MucyLoss
From an untitled new musical. Performed back in 2018.
#DailySIGNAL. Congrats to them both on the return of @sixthemusical to the west end!
Really Good Stuff by @ForristalClarke
From Public Domain, a verbatim musical about the internet.
#DailySIGNAL. They have recorded an album and will be launching it later this year.
Breathe by @TheoJamieson & @tanya_ronder
From Love Child, a musical about F. Scott Fitzgerald
#DailySIGNAL sung by the extraordinary @carlybawden
Dumb Question by @amberhsu and @Stu_Barter
From the new musical Natural Born Nobodies
Sung by the amazing @charlotteforst @George_Paskin #DylanWynford.
#DailySIGNAL
Sitting In My Bed by @maimunamemon
From the new musical Sparrow Girl
Performed by @maimunamemon & @NiccoCurradi
#DailySIGNAL
Sarah's Song by @joseph_finlay
From a Verbatim project where people are interviewed about their relationship with their parents.
Sung by the incredible @joannalkirkland
One of the most magical and innovative moments in SIGNAL history
#DailySIGNAL

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Dec 3, 2023
A little Sunday afternoon story.

Two weeks ago I had quite major surgery. Today I got on a bus for the first time since then. With my blue badge. It was very full and I found myself standing initially near the priority seats holding on firmly to the hand rails.
A few stops in someone vacated a priority seat. A nearby mother with two kids ushered her kid toward the available seat. I intercepted and said I had recently had surgery and needed to sit down. I showed my blue badge.
She said her son was on his way to that seat and was on the bus before me. I suggested that this was not the purpose of priority seats which were for people who had difficulty standing.
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Apr 22, 2022
Something I have said to writers for years is: Write Impossible Stage Directions.
The incredible thing about theatre is that it's able to create a much longer bridge between reality and imagination than any other form
A car can be a chair. A mountain can lighting. Gravity can be movement.
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Feb 1, 2022
I just want to say that I am done defending digital theatre. If you can't see the virtue of it or the value of it then fine.
I'm so over people telling me it's boring, it doesn't hold their attention, it's not real theatre.
It has given me and a lot of writers the chance to share their work in situations and times when traditional methods wouldn't have allowed that. It has allowed people all over the world to watch it.
Read 19 tweets
Oct 3, 2020
While I'm delighted for everyone who was accepted for the @royalcourt writers group I can't help but feel sad that there will probably never be a subsidised theatre with an open submission writers group for musical theatre writers. Please support musical theatre career artists.
If any UK subsidised theatre wants to start one drop me a line. I promise if we nurtured career musical theatre writers properly we would not only make beautiful art but would also all get really rich. (CF @PublicTheaterNY)
Career progression for musical theatre writers is nearly impossible in the UK. Compare it to all of the systems, awards, writers groups etc for writers of plays.
Read 5 tweets
Oct 3, 2020
Pop stars never write plays why do we let them write musicals 😭
Moreover why do we publicise their attempts and give them resources we deny the best career musical theatre writers?
They are rarely writing them because they love narrative. They are writing them because they love themselves.
Read 5 tweets
Oct 2, 2020
So back in May I was meant to direct Merrily We Roll Along for the @CSSDLondon MA Musical Theatre students. But of course it got cancelled. This left a year of students having never completed their one big public musical.
It seemed for months that the year would just be cancelled but gradually I became aware that due to the hard work of the course leader Paul Barker the year would be able to come back. However they would only be able to be in groups of six.
This meant that a year of 22 needed to be divided up into groups of 5 and 6 and that they could never rehearse in the same room. Moreover we knew the shows couldn't have an actual audience so would need to be able to be legally filmed.
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