Amy Stevens was born on the 14th March 1987. When she lost both her job and her house within a week, Amy turned to The Big Issue. She started selling the magazine in Angel, then moved to Euston. At Euston she found herself struggling to walk past the vast numbers of beggers outside the station ...
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‘You talk to the old folk who know this district backwards. In taverns and by firesides, you will hear it said, the place lies too close to the supernatural worlds, enchanted and therefore abandoned’ – Aidan Dunn Eighteen months ago I began my journey of discovery in an area described by storyteller Huw Williams as ‘a ...
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It isn’t Somers Town Father Philip Dyson grew up in the north of England, and moved to Somers Town in 1980. He spent 15 ½ years there, as the Vicar at St Mary’s Church. A community of “old Cockneys” inhabited the Somers Town that Father Philip remembers. There was no development around either of the ...
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George Eugeniou approaches playwriting as a cycle: it starts on the ground, with his community, where he embeds himself in the lives and struggles of the people around him. He then pours that experience back into the creative melting pot, and makes work that is rooted in the concerns of his time and place. This ...
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