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There's even a hierarchy in disability
“Dear Mr President, Internal Revenue regulations will turn us all into a nation of book-keepers. The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man’s life is not a business.” Saul Bellow, Herzog 1964. The ‘business of man’s life’ appears to have been swallowing us all for at least the last sixty-one years. In the continuing search for financial backing to support the productions of Shakespeare’s plays that I perform with autistic people, I increasingly find myself having to justify the economic value of each and every one of the unique human souls I work with; human souls who may never ever earn money nor spend money, never invest money nor indeed divest money, never save money nor squander money and worst of all worsts, are unlikely ever to entertain the prospect of entering the all hallowed ‘workplace’. Thereby they unknowingly render themselves unnecessary and dismissible in the eyes of many; an invisible people whose loving eyes see more than pounds and pennies and rubles and dollars, whose sweet voices sing to the incandescent music of the spheres, audible if you could only stop fretting about money and listen.
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Wings of January
Seven people meet on an early morning train in London to travel to a room in a pub in Brighton, where they will perform Shakespeare’ s Twelfth Night with autistic people, twice. By four o clock they will be done for the day. This is Flute Theatre, this is 2025, these people are actors and a musician, this journey is normal, their task is sublime, the day’s sea is a storm, the play owns a calm, each of these people has an aching belief that the world could and should be a better, fairer, and more equal place though they would never say it out loud, the action of turning up on this train expresses more than words can say.
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Mexico. Otros Territorios Festival Queretaro
Being part of the Otros Territorios Festival in Mexico has hit me like a hurricane. And now I'm home in London all I can think about is going back to Mexico. Very luckily for me they have already invited Flute Theatre back in 2026 and it can't come too soon. Every year this extraordinary festival takes place in a different small town in Mexico, offering theatre and art for the local disabled and marginalised people. Long live this beautiful festival.
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mi corazon
I work with the most isolated autistic individuals, using theatre to transform fear into connection. Tomorrow, Aleix and I bring The Tempest to Mexico, sharing our journey of creativity and human expression.
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