Before the performance, there is the making. These conversations illuminate the interior life of creative practice — the methods, instincts, failures and breakthroughs that shape how theatre comes into being. Practitioners open up about their processes, their influences, and the often unpredictable journey from first impulse to finished work.
Jan 30, 2025
Jonathan O’Hear, Maria Sappho, and Qondiswa James explore Chimère, a community-driven AI, as a counter-cultural creative collaborator challenging corporate AI narratives and expanding human-nonhuman collaboration.
Jan 25, 2024
Kenyan theatre-maker Ogutu Muraya explores combinatorial play, post-election violence, colonial memory, and decomposition as transformative tools for storytelling and artistic self-discovery.
Apr 20, 2023
Merlin Sheldrake and Marcus du Sautoy explore mycelial networks and AI as provocative metaphors for collective creativity, consciousness, and the future of theatre-making.
Oct 27, 2022
Jehan Manekshaw proposes theatre as a collective “psychohistory” — a community knowledge system capable of building resilience, social well-being, and resistance against civilisational collapse.
Sep 15, 2022
Kate Quarfordt explores the tension between the “clattering world” of productivity and the “summoning world” of creative longing, asking how artists, parents, and pedagogues can
Aug 25, 2022
Delhi-based playwright Neel Chaudhuri reflects on slowness, repetition, and the “velocity of expectation” in pedagogy, questioning how students and teachers can embrace being genuinely unprepared.
Aug 11, 2022
Nikki Yeboah and Sarah McCarron explore female protagonists in storytelling, examining how crisis lands differently on women’s bodies and navigating conservatism across theatre and television
Jun 16, 2022
Nandita Dinesh discusses her novel This Place / That Place, exploring how her theatre activism evolved into a nuanced, grey-zone practice of understanding conflict, censorship,
Jun 2, 2022
Prabhath Bhaskaran explores the intersection of farming, Kalaripayattu, and theatre-making in Japan, embracing chance, imbalance, and chaosmos as the very source of creativity and community.
May 19, 2022
Turkish dancer-choreographer Ziya Azazi explores spinning and the whirling dervish tradition as a transformative tool for embodied self-discovery, balance within imbalance, and heightened presence.
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