'Brilliant performance - I loved it!' Grayson (10)

​Commissioned by Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Authority, The Miracle Egg is the story of a Bird Girl born on a faraway island when the world was new. She flies around the world sharing stories until the Collector wants to add her to his collection and locks her up in his Tower. But every morning and every evening the birds come to sing to her. Can she get free? What is the Miracle Egg? And why does the world fall suddenly silent?

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Written by Belona Greenwood, Directed by Stephen Carne, original music composed by Jonathan Lambert with Ben Elder and Saffron Harrington. 

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Part of Marsh Arts and Us 

Funded by Arts Council England.

The play tells the story of a doctor and the patients he cared for.  Moving between past and present, the filmed performance explores Dr Hills' therapeutic compassion, and reflects on mental health today.

It is an archives, theatre and wellbeing project.

Commissioned by The Restoration Trust, produced and performed by Upshoot Theatre Company.

Dr Hills' Casebook is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and NORAH.

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Watch the full production here.  Or a selection of scenes. Or the making of the production here. 

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'I’ll go ahead and say it – ‘Dr. Hills’ Casebook is a triumph. A brave, bold and brilliant triumph. If it’s this powerful in a Zoom read-through, I can’t begin to imagine how emotionally affecting it’ll be as a full stage production, driving home the all-important message that  no-one chooses to be mentally ill. Not then, not now.'  

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A Little Cabaret of Suffragette!

Commissioned by Yakety-Yak Theatre Company.  The story of the fight for votes for women seen through the lives of local and national suffragette and suffragist figures such as Millicent Fawcett and Princess Sophia Duleep Singh. Toured Norfolk and Suffolk 2018.

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Fantastic!

Enjoyable, powerful performance. Brilliantly executed!

Such a wonderfully fabulous play with fabulous actors! Fantastic well done all in involved ! Highly recommend you see it if you haven’t already!

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Scripting of Anna Mudeka’s One Woman Show Kure Kure.  In its first 2018 tour.

This involved contextual research into Zimbabwean history and culture, the taking down of Anna’s personal family history, thoughts, dreams and ideas and the shaping and develop of her story into a script. 

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Co-created with Chalk Circle Theatre Company - Little Eden, is a satire on nationalism developed with the refugee community in Norwich.

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Get a taste of the production here!

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'LITTLE EDEN is a wake-up call at a time when nationalism is once again raising its ugly head. This sharp, funny play applies a satirical skewer to the idea that we can make everything better by slamming the door (think Nigel Farage, Katie Hopkins) and going it alone (think David Cameron's in-out EU referendum).

See it if you can!'

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Charlie Watson, East Publishing

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A brilliant satire that combines moments of wonderfully absurd comedy with a powerful message: if we don't nurture our humanity, we risk losing it.'

Nick Wright

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Alice’s Adventure, a play set during the Bosnian War explores war and grief.  The play was commissioned by the National Writers' Centre as part of Tribunal 12, Europe In the Dock at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2012 at Norwich Playhouse.

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'Alice’s Adventure is a deeply moving play that explores the mother/daughter relationship, and the particular experience of women working in a war-torn country. It left me broken wide open.' 

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Audience member

Artistic Director for The Great War Wymondham, a Heritage Lottery Funded project over 12 schools for a festival of commemoration with at its heart the creation of original new drama based on local research. Play – Wymondham’s Great War, directed by Adina Levay.

Going High was a theatrical feminist busking event  on International Women’s Day 2017. Words and Women collaborated with Chalk Circle Theatre Company to busk in Norwich’s city centre, using words not music. Staged by Adina Levay.

I have written and produced a number of children's outdoor theatre events.

Shire - A spy Story, Hereward the Wake and the Irish Moil Calf, The Golden Goat, The White Calf Walks to the Moon, The Snow Child, Robin Hood and the Alien Invasion, The Enchanted Sleep, The Great Baa and Little Bo Peep, The Potty Porridge Adventure, The Day the Dinosaurs Came Back and the Dragon-Seeker's Quest. 

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Image Rosalind Burt in The Golden Goat at the Royal Norfolk Show 2015

In August 2014 Words and Women launched a commissioning competition ‘About’ was launched! Women writers based in the East of England were invited to submit a proposal for a short text of 4,000 words exploring the life of one woman and her relationship to place. The woman could be famous or non, contemporary or historical, fictional or factual. I acted as dramaturg and producer of the winning scripts directed by Adina Levay. 

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Image - Rosalind Burt in Counting the Pennies by Tess Little.