Photographer | Storyteller
Venice, Summer 2017 – In only recent years has Climate Change come to the top of a global agenda but in Venice there has, for hundreds of years, been a concerted effort to combat the rising waters and a sinking city. The causes are many, not least the literal flood of tourists and the daily arrival of vast cruise ships into the heart of the city’s waters.
Action Transport Theatre’s Family Festival brings a variety of art forms to Ellesmere Port annually – storytelling, theatre, film, craft workshops, digital escape rooms and more. 2018’s festival brought a unique street theatre group and…
Following the development of the play and inclusion of design elements in South Africa and then rehearsals at Action Transport Theatre‘s base at Whitby Hall, GOGO played nationally, premiering at the Unicorn Theatre, London –…
An already flourishing partnership between Cheshire-based ACTION TRANSPORT THEATRE and Soweto’s VULAVULANI THEATRE COMPANY took an interesting turn in 2006 with the writing of Kevin Dyer’s children’s play GOGO. On previous visits to Soweto, ATT’s…
Gail Young is a writer living in Guilden Sutton, a Cheshire village, where amateur theatre plays an important role in the community. Gail’s first full-length play, CHESHIRE CATS, is a comedy drama about a group…
‘NIGHT TRAIN comes from the true stories of young people who run away… from home, foster parents, residential units, the coppers, everything…’ Night Train was written in 2007 by four professional…
ANOTHER PLACE, Antony Gormley’s sometime controversial installation is a collection of one hundred cast iron figures of his own body facing out to sea. Spread over a two mile stretch of Crosby Beach, it was…
John Moorhouse, a writer from Ellesmere Port, was commissioned by Action Transport Theatre (which is based in the town) to write a play for young people and it marked his debut as a professional writer….
The Carlton Centre is a skyscraper and shopping centre in the heart of downtown Johannesburg. With its fifty floors – nearly half of which are below ground level – it is the tallest building in…
This collection of photographs charts the making of a play for young people. It shows the bringing together of four actors and their journey to write a play collaboratively with an award-winning playwright, Kevin Dyer….
Robben Island, just seven miles from Cape Town, has a long and dark history as a place of imprisonment and exclusion but is now a museum, recording the incarceration of the political prisoners of South…
I took the first image from a bridge above the track; the girl in her immaculate school uniform – no uniform means no school – and the woman in traditional Sowetan dress crossing the railway…
TRUE AND IMMORTAL SISTER was one of four plays showcasing the work of young emerging writers produced by ACTION TRANSPORT THEATRE. This is the story of the development of the play but also the story…
THERE’S ONLY ONE OF YOU Making Theatre From The Thoughts of Children The world of the child is one that is inquisitive, excited, and hungry for answers to an infinite number of questions; questions that…