Category Archives: Stories

Staging Alzheimer’s: A New Play About Memory, Care, and What We Leave Behind

Over the past year — working at the intersection of St George’s medical school, the NHS environment, and my continuing bioinformatics research — I’ve found myself circling one question: What remains of us when memory falters, and who carries the fragments we lose? This question has become the seed of a new performance work: a […]
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Exploring Decay: Nature’s Unexpected Transformations – in Andy Goldsworthy’s Art

I am trying to get to Scotland to see an exhibition and they cancel my train because of Storm Floris. I read – as a result of the winds trees are felled on the Waverley Park. This felt like letting go of the past as I had seen that tree stood there for 30 years […]
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Unveiling Whispers from Number 9: A Lost Play Emerges

A play was scheduled to open in 1958.But the curtain never rose…The writer vanished.Only the title remained — Whispers from Number 9. AUTHOR’ LEFT A NOTE:“I wanted to write something not loud, but true — a silence you could feel between two people in armchairs. The war is over, but we are still rehearsing our […]
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Mood Mirror

MoodMirror: Mapping Your Mind with Code and Poetry https://huggingface.co/spaces/LDolan/sentiment_checker How did people used to track their emotions? Maybe it was through letters unsent, diary pages folded in two, or the unfinished edge of a painting. These old-world fragments—weathered, heartfelt, and half-hidden—held deep emotional records long before algorithms knew how to read sentiment. But what if […]
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Anne Bayne of Dunsapie Loch

Anne Bayne welcomes her husband, the poet Allan Ramsey back from the Grand Tour only to find that London is pulling him away. His career as being part of the centre of the Enlightenment movement in Edinburgh dawns the prospect of a monument being created in his name. Anne resists the public attention that this will generate, […]
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Asa’s Archway Adventure

North London wilderness extends from the Heath towards Archway to find Asa, a teenager, trying to make sense of life as his old school crumbles at its feet. London bricks are falling down, uncared for and not repaired. Left to breakdown, Asa’s family reaches out for help but is it too late? Will Asa ever achieve his aim […]
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After Shark

Excited to bring the story of the shark that shipped up on Newlyn Harbour this year to Manchester Fringe. A great cast that includes Jo Phillips-Lane, Julie Broadbent and Ian McShee tell the true story of how a rare shark swam up to Newlyn shore. Find out the story of the rare mammal in July […]
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Ain’t No Female Romeo

Like. Click like. ❤ A lady finds love (or so believes) on Instagram. (Love at first sight? From a photo?) She travels over the world to find the one true love. After all.. the sun always shines on Instagram! She discovers exactly how much she can know about a persona from a social media ‘follow’ […]
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gasp

After a bracing few days at Brighton Fringe people watching and eating chips on the pier (fighting off the seagulls!) It is now time to head through London to home towards Manchester and start gearing up for some more excitement of Greater Manchester Fringe where 10 new pieces of work will be brought to life […]
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One Last Gasp

Time feels cancelled some days. The slowness catches up with me and I sense my breath. The quieter pace of life is opening new experiences although (Thankfully) the world around me is evolving to being a safe place. This limbo feels like a last gasp of all sorts of joys and unusual occurrences. I have […]
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