Weaving everyone's lives into stories
The start of the new decade surprised me, somehow it snuck up on me. Like the similarities of the two characters in the plays that we tour, and I wrote, surprised me with their similarities. It’s not surprising that the two characters of Eliza and Mary, like me, focus on the past and use it […]
I would have loved to come up with a different title for this blog, but that’s the most apt. From July 2018 I have been engrossed in ‘The Disappearance of Eliza Grey’, finishing rewrites, applying for funding, casting it, rehearsing it, publicising it, then performing it and recovering. It’s a lot of work, and it […]
After working on the Disappearance of Eliza Grey, meeting with many people and reading lots of books. The script is finished. It has gone through a few titles and even been performed once. But the most influential experience was meeting a group of people living with Dementia. I walked into the group not knowing who […]
These last 6 weeks have shown the breadth of what Hazel Twig can get up to. I helped in the Storytelling tent at Cliff College festival, where whilst telling stories we offered a hospitable space for all ages. I also performed ‘Chosen’ as part of the festival, to a very responsive audience. We have been providing […]
The summer is over, as of yesterday and Autumn begins, which means that the growing time is over, the harvest is gathered in. But often for me the Autumn means new. It seems that as the schools return the year beings again, it feels that my thoughts reset to the year ahead. And there is […]
I am coming to the end of my two years at Cliff and last week I was getting ready to display the practical work that had been produced for the course. The exhibition has now finished and Iam now able to show you something that ihave been doing. I was interested in how the ritual that […]
It’s so exciting that ‘Chosen’ is touring and welcoming bookings, and I am finding new topics to write on. I have a project that has been brewing for a bit, but trying to work out which group of women to focus on. It will be a modern piece but using the stories of women that either […]
