A selection of Jeremy Weller’s performance and film work from the last few years.
Very few theatre directors bring the real alive on stage. Jeremy Weller has the gift of dramatising ordinary life using ordinary people to make both seem real and extra- ordinary at the same time. His work is brave, dangerous and vivid.
A selection of Jeremy Weller’s performance and film work from the last few years.
Jeremy Weller has devoted his life to social action and investigation through performance. He is perhaps best known as the Artistic Director of the innovative and influential GrassMarket Project (GMP) theatre company. Weller’s vision integrates issues of social exclusion and social justice into the artistic process and seeks to improve peoples lives through engaging them in their own potential for creativity.
For more than 20 years Jeremy the GMP have used Radical Drama as a social intervention process. Jeremy is at the heart of GMP’s drama-based art and social-healing methods, and recognizes that so-called ordinary lives can have the power of Greek tragedy.
Jeremy is also in the 2nd year of his Practiced based PhD research with QMUL (London). Some of the research questions he is exploring in his reading and practice are: