As part of the second Unlimited programme, more audiences will have the opportunity to enjoy the glorious musical adventure featuring an unusual pig. Paul F Cockburn speaks with co-creator Garry Robson. Edmund the Learned Pig brings together a disparate group of contributors. How did the show come together? “I’ve always been a fan of old […]
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Claire Cunningham Interview
Choreographer and performer Claire Cunningham tells Paul F Cockburn how her new work melds movement and words to discuss religious attitudes to disability. Most artists are reluctant to suggest where they get their ideas from, but Claire Cunningham is quite clear about the initial ‘spark’ of inspiration for Guide Gods. “I was in Cambodia last […]
Unlimited 2014 launch
A new programme celebrating and supporting disabled artists and disability art was launched on Monday in Glasgow. Paul F Cockburn was there. New work from some of Britain’s most exciting disabled artists will help build on the success of London’s Cultural Olympiad in 2012, and both sustain and develop disability arts across the UK, according […]
Robert Softley Gale
The latest production from Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company is the first under its new artistic regime. Paul F Cockburn spoke with co-artistic director Robert Softley Gale about Wendy Hoose. How would you describe Wendy Hoose? It’s basically a sex comedy. We wanted to put on the kind of theatre people want to come […]
In an Alien Landscape
The artistic imperative is possibly the most distinctive aspect of what makes us human, but centuries of seeking the source of our innate need to express how we experience the world, remains unclear; and surely no more so than in the exceedingly rare Sudden Artistic Output Syndrome—so exceptional an occurrence, it hasn’t even got its […]
Snails & Ketchup
Based on a novel by Italo Calvino, Ramesh Meyyappan’s touring production, Snails & Ketchup, explores dependance and independence. Paul F Cockburn reviews this Unlimited commission, produced as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Published originally in 1957, the Italian writer Italo Calvino’s award-winning novel, Il Barone Rampante (The Baron in the Trees), explores ideas of independence […]
The Man Who Lived Twice
“You only live twice, or so it seems/One life for yourself and one for your dreams.” Despite its overt 1930s New York staging, and period music, I couldn’t help but watch Garry Robson’s “fictionalised account” — of the real-life meeting between the actor John Gielgud and the blind, paralysed playwright Edward Sheldon — with Nancy […]
