Writer and performer Alys Williams talks about care, connection and audience participation in The Light House, an extraordinary true story coming to Park90 in April.  

‘I hope audiences leave the theatre determined to listen to themselves, love themselves, and talk to others about their problems...What I really hope they don’t do is call their exes.’

‘I was living in NY and had friends in the tech industry, and I started to notice that they were all throwing around the word Disruption endlessly. It was like a collective mantra in that world. Everyone seemed to be constantly asking what can we disrupt?’

It took fourteen years for Athena Stevens to write Schism, a new play now on at Park 90. Her inspiration? The unhealthy pattern of codependency and emotional unavailability she noticed permeating her friendships and relationships. Schism is a frank exploration of what went wrong, over and over again, over all those years.The play follows a twenty-year relationship between Harrison and Catherine as they navigate several life-stages and power shuffles. What started out as a teacher-student relationship soon becomes sexual when Catherine goes off to university, but whe…

Snakes have a gestation period of about three months.Don’t Sleep There Are Snakes, which opens in Park 200 on 23 March, has had a gestation period of eight years.It was November 2008. Dudley Hinton was listening to a Radio 4 interview with Dan Everett. A linguistics professor and former missionary, Everett is one of the few (about six) outsiders fluent in the langu