Writing, Dramaturgy and Notes

How should we respond to Europe re-arming? This question needs unpicking as a matter of urgency - the ethics, the aesthetics, the politics.

When the ancient actor stepped out of the chorus to comment on the action it was the equivalent of cultural nuclear fission. Authority responded, first with regulation and then with violence.

From Melno Park to Theresienstadt Propaganda is aimed not only at communicating a message but at constructing reality itself.

Politicians depend on fictions as much as facts to communicate and accumulate power with and from their audiences, us citizens. This is how artists become indispensable.

Festivals are the decentralised and irreplaceable spaces for imagining the unimaginable. Welcome to Trieste.

...Well, if that is what we think we are wrong...

I ask questions about the relationship between power, propaganda and art and culture.

European Mnemonic Wars in EU Bulgaria and Brexit Britain (November 2023)