Arts Articles
Making darkness visible
Setting the world to rights over plates of pasta, Emma, Pat and I decided that it would be a very good idea if someone found a cure for depression. I nearly said that there was a cure, but I didn’t, because it seems to me (having struggled with the...
Words for Doris Pigeon
I’ve no idea, dear Doris, what love required of you. Though your name this morn was mentioned in Meeting. Like a light, blown skyward. The ash of a woman on her way.
Turning faith into fiction
Mike: How does it feel to have your first novel published? I understand it’s been a long time in the making. Peter: I’m very excited. Yes, I began writing the book over twenty years ago while still at school, but I’ve changed a lot in the intervening...
Refugee
We cross deserts, we walk the line, cross oceans to find our way from where we were crushed and conquered,
Modernise or bust
The powers of the West, the greatest and the best, agreed to make a plan for no more war. After days and nights of labour, each resolved to love his neighbour by spending more on weapons than before.
Echo Chamber
Echo Chamber is a new artwork inspired by the stories of world war one conscientious objectors. At its core are their voices, speaking directly to us. Their stories may shock our modern ear (sharing prison with men about to be executed), are often sad (a family rift never healed), and...
Inside the Echo Chamber
The first gift you can offer, in an artwork or a conversation, is space. In a generous space we feel received but free to have our own reactions, to stay or to go. We have a choice. Choice is at the heart of Echo Chamber: the historic choice whether to...
Feeding the darkness
The challenge offered to us was that of creating and delivering a theatre piece that would address head on the issue of state-sponsored torture in relation to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 2. Journeymen Theatre exists to explore dramatically such Quaker concerns and we regard this work as...
The Lollards
A memorial stands on the hill overlooking the Buckinghamshire market town of Amersham. It marks the spot where, at two separate times in the early sixteenth century, seven men and women were burnt at the stake for heresy. The seven were Lollards and part of a growing group across Europe...
What are Quakers?
At heart we Quakers are mystics, Experiencing the Light, We trust in love and peace, And choose to heal, not fight.