MOMO TESTIMO

Hot-damn. Well, I guess this is what the UK really voted for. And voting is what counts.   The passion with which some of us defend characters like Farage and hate perceptions like identity politics and mistrust inherantly lefty sounding concepts such as climate crisis – Boris is the antidote to all this. Amusingly British and disarming and says he…

I'm often saying that it is art that will save the world. And it sounds like a rather unqualified, ponsy, irrelevant, liberal statement, obviously. ..Hi. But I mean it as an act of walking through walls, breaching no-man's land, creating new ways of seeing when there is, I believe, nothing we need more now. Not if we are to make…

Valise Noire Storytelling Theatre invoked the spirit of service in their Great War rememberence pieces, using people's own words in letters and inventories to bring audiences together around some universally shared feelings. Contributing one last piece of sound design to their final performance of the last four years of the centenary, I found myself wondering about the rallying vibrations of…

It's a culture war we're caught in. If it's everyone who loses in a retreat behind borders, our first line duty is to put Art back in the forge.   God knows, I love stories. So do you. And – don't flinch, Captain Culture – storytelling is going to be a useful word for a while yet, in framing our…

"Timo Peach’s idea nearly incinerated my Sunday roast.   As will later become apparent, this is in fact the highest compliment - and perhaps the benchmark by which I will judge all ideas presented to me in future: is it a roast-killer? The bar has been set very high by his latest project... A Sunday afternoon Skype conversation on Feb…