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Sketching and scratching: the process of making REMOTE
Hello, we’re Coney. As we’re running a kickstarter campaign to help fund our forthcoming production of REMOTE, Tassos Stevens – who’s a heady combo of writer and game-designer and director for this project – is writing a series of posts…
Read moreStarting REMOTE: playing scale, The Stanley Parable, and an idea in the shower
Hello, we’re Coney. As we’re running a kickstarter campaign to help fund our forthcoming production of REMOTE, Tassos Stevens – who’s a heady combo of writer and game-designer and director for this project – is writing a series of posts…
Read moreQuestion Everything
[Tassos Stevens writes…] I was invited to make a provocation for Question Everything, an event curated by Index on Censorship and hosted at Junction in Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Festival Of Ideas. All us ‘provokers’, from diverse backgrounds…
Read morea manifesto about manifestos
A manifesto expresses the vision, what’s important and what’s exciting. This is what it is about. It’s shared with everyone with a stake, and invites their contribution and co-authorship. It adopts whichever form and format best suits its co-authors. There…
Read moreWriting for adventures
I know that these words are being read by you now. You are probably looking at a computer screen. It seems unlikely that you’ve gone to the effort of printing this out. If you’re thinking about it now, please don’t.…
Read more"an exchange of good gifts between strangers"
Tassos Stevens writes: I was invited by Annie Rigby of Unfolding Theatre and Kylie Lloyd of Northern Stage to deliver a provocation in a symposium recently on participatory art and the question – how does this work impact and benefit…
Read moreMiddle Days of our better nation
Tom Bowtell, who co-created the show with fellow Coney co-director Annette Mees writes about the core questions that fuel Early Days (of a Better Nation), which premieres in London this autumn Two questions have always hovered close to the heart…
Read moreA Salon on playing theatre at Camden People's Theatre
This was an open event curated and hosted by Coney at Camden People’s Theatre for our network. It sprang from a desire to advance the dialogue around making playing theatre aka interactive theatre. Provocations from Philipp Ehmann, Zoe Svendsen, and…
Read moreKensington Palace: a happy marriage of arts and heritage ambition
This article was originally posted on The Guardian’s Culture Professionals Network. Kensington Palace: ‘Is there another way?’ Storytelling is key for Historic Royal Palaces (HRP). But to draw in the widest possible visitor base to our five historic sites, we…
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