Metta likes...support

We've been really lucky over the years with the amazing support we've received from both venues and individuals and this year looks like our best yet. We're forging a really exciting relationship with Jacksons Lane who are supporting us with our forays into circus with Sexing the Cherry and Points of Light, and now also possibly jumping on The Man with The Flower in His Mouth band waggon. And the Southbank Centre are still behind us - programming Sexing The Cherry for their Literature Festival - on the back of the sell-out success of last year's Waiting. Oxford Playhouse too have been great supporters of Metta ever since we started the company back in 2005 - they programmed our first show, when we were still students. And as well as booking one of our 2007 productions they've now taken Flower Man for a week as part of our UK tour and we've several other collaborations with them to look forward to over the next two years.

Metta likes...Intensity

This week I started rehearsals for a non-Metta show - a new production of Barrie Keeffe's Gotcha, which is on at Riverside Studios (from March 1st-19th). It's quite a departure for me as it's just a play, I don't mean JUST a play - but I mean there's no puppets, circus or video projection craziness. It's just four people in one room, over one day. And it's brilliant, and will hopefully be a searing and visceral production which packs a real emotional punch (it's only day three of rehearsals but as everyone knows I'm an optimist). But it got me thinking about intensity...

Devoted & Disgruntled

I spent the weekend at Improbable's brilliant and inspiring (and life-changing) event Devoted & Disgruntled. This was my first year, but it's been going for six years now and I have never participated in a workshop that left me feeling so uplifted, inspired and energised. So what's it all about?