Grass Heads Activity

A great activity for anyone who prefers to stay clean and they can get involved in making their grass heads as much as they want. Once it's made they are great fun to watch, as the little grass hairs grow day by day. Chart your growth and then get grass-hair styling!


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Taste-Safe Sand Activity

A great activity for anyone who likes to play in the sandpit, with an added bonus of it being taste-safe. Make different sized sandcastles, write your name in the sand, bury your hands or even make your own beach scene with umbrellas and deckchairs - the possibilities are endless!

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Tackling trauma on stage

Once you have your play, your story, your sliver of something to share, you begin to build your team around you, but what happens when creativity alone is not enough? I know right, I too was shocked. It became abundantly clear very early on that if we were to tackle potentially triggering themes such as sexual violence and death in front of an audience, we were going to need help.

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Preparing for WHEN WE DIED

When I wrote the first draft of When We Died in 2016, I focused predominantly on the experience of the woman at the centre of the play and her story. That draft touched on the character's love of her job but was very much about the cosmetic stages of the embalming process; at one stage I imagined her as being more of a make up artist to the deceased rather than an embalmer. I may have got a little overexcited by the fact that Whoopi Goldberg used to be one... 

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