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AofA People: Mat Fraser – Actor, Writer, Musician

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3 mn read Mat Fraser is a disabled actor, writer, and musician, who’s been in American Horror Story: Freak Show, His Dark Materials, Silent Witness, and played Richard III on stage in 2017. His writing has been sometimes awarded, and recently, published. His solo show “Cabinet of Curiosities: How Disability Was Kept in a Box”, won the UK’s Observer […]

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The Culture Interview – Duncan Alldridge, ‘Improv’ teacher, writer, performer.

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10 mn read Author of ‘Losing It: How We Popped Our Cherry Over the Last 80 Years’, Kate Monro has been taking Duncan Alldridge’s ‘improv’ classes ‘Playing on the Edge’. She described the experience as being ‘transformational’ in terms of her life. Here she decides to ask her teacher some questions.

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Mythmaker

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< 1 mn read This myth you make now, this soup of old bones, stretches like a necklace of islands strung out over a watery grave, a garland of ancestors, begging, pleading, healing. And what you do now cascades up and down your family line and stems an evolutionary tide that washed up waves of curses and vows, which […]

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