So the idea for this week’s post came to me yesterday after having an extremely long day of rehearsing and organising things for the company: arts applications, press releases and other such admin tasks. While doing so I encountered an infinite number of stumbling blocks that prevented my from completing a number of these objectives […]

Opportunities will present themselves time and time again through your time at college and university. If you really are serious about a career in the arts then I implore you to take this advice: say yes to everything, give your all to everything. It may not seem worth it at the time but trust me, […]

If there is one thing that I have learned in my time devising performance, it’s that a human being your brain can’t be an unrelenting creative force 24/7. Sometimes you just need to stop. We’ve all been there: you need to get something finished but you find yourself stumped. Completely and utterly stumped. You can’t […]

So this may well be the final instalment of my mini-series detailing the art’s great benefits. That is no promise however as I may think of many more advantages (or the government will make another horrendous decision about the arts which is 99% certain to happen). In any case I wanted to start with this […]

Okay, it has been a very busy couple of weeks at Retina HQ so first off, apologies for the late upload, this will never happen again! (This however is not a binding contract or oath). We have been very bogged down in applications and admin for our recently announced adventure to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival […]

So a few weeks ago (3 to be exact) I wrote a post about the benefits of having an education including drama, or any kind of performance subject for that matter, is vitally important for a young person’s development. I said in that post that it would take more than one particular article to explain all […]

So here’s something a little personal: I don’t like being lectured. Who does? No one likes being told that they are wrong, let alone being told something that they already know, at length. For me, the same applies to art. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that you can’t address an issue that you […]

Starting up as a theatre company is hard, not just because you’re essentially setting up a business but because, to begin with, there is rejection to be faced. Of course, we weren’t naive in thinking this wouldn’t happen. In the performing arts rejection is rife and more often than not, as a new company, you […]

It’s been a pretty eventful week for all of us here at Rendered Retina and we have had the pleasure of supervising workshops for young people. It was extremely rewarding for us to see skills being passed on to the next generation of performers but it brought up a very interesting issue, one that can’t […]

We have been incredibly lucky over the past week to be able to watch not one, but TWO fantastic pieces of theatre during the time between consulting A Level Drama students on their exam pieces and rehearsals of our own; These pieces being Gecko’s ‘Institute’ and Complicite’s ‘The Encounter’. Now, the point of this entry […]