Meet Papergang Theatre, Bound Feet Blues partner at Tristan Bates Theatre as part of the South East Asian Arts Festival

We have invited Papergang Theatre to share our theatre space at Tristan Bates Theatre as both Bound Feet Blues and Papergang are taking part in the South East Asian Arts Festival (SEA Arts Fest). Papergang will be producing three Papergang matinees of play readings by East Asian playwrights during the Bound Feet Blues run – the Bound Feet Blues team are delighted to be able to support new East Asian writing in this way.

Papergang Theatre

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Papergang Theatre was formed by graduates of the Royal Court Unheard Voices programme, which develops writers from ethnic minorities. “Our mission is to create theatre work that reflects the multi-cultural society we live in, bringing contemporary voices from our community into the mainstream.

At Papergang, we know that a writer can only realise their full potential if their work is produced and has a life beyond the page. We are a theatre company led by a diverse range of Continue reading

Writing for Performance is wildly different from Novel Writing – here’s why

Over on my main blog StoryGuru.co.uk, I’ve just written about the differences between writing for performance and writing novels. As a novelist, I had a steep learning curve working on the script for Bound Feet Blues and found lots to love about this fresh genre of story performance, and also lots that has been a challenge in terms of creating the text.

In contrast to 180,000+ for each of my novels, I have had to…. Continue reading