Excited to be working with West Yorkshire Playhouse on a short play for Every Third Minute, a festival of theatre, dementia, and hope that will comprise a variety of performances and events at the Playhouse during February and March 2018.
The title refers to the statistic that every third minute in the UK someone will begin living with dementia. The project I'm working on (not yet listed in the schedule) is one of a trilogy of short plays to be written with people living with dementia and carers in the Leeds area. My collaborators, on whose stories, thoughts, and experiences the play will be based, are members of the South Asian Hamari Yaadain Dementia Café, run by Touchstone support worker Ripaljeet Kaur.
The trilogy will be performed at the Playhouse during the festival, followed by a short tour of community venues in and around Leeds. The Playhouse has a long and proud history of community engagement with older people and those living with dementia, in particular pioneering a guide for dementia-friendly performances - the principles of which have now been adopted by numerous other organisations.
The festival is curated by Theatre & Dementia Research Associate, Nicky Taylor, with the creative process forming part of her PhD research work. The plays themselves will be directed by Creative Engagement Director, Alex Ferris, produced by Martha Wilson.
I'll post more details in spring 2018. Looking forward to our development week in January!
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