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.
Check the final work of the theater director Jeremy Weller and his extremely moving performance and working process. Where it Hurts - an hour long performance involves members of different communities from across Edinburgh and some former staff of the NHS and those currently training to work in the NHS. Scenes include real life examples of... Continue Reading →
Writer and film and theatre director Jeremy Weller has created ‘Where it Hurts’; an hour long performance involving members of different communities from across Edinburgh and some former staff of the NHS and those currently training to work in the NHS. The current ambition is to stage the performance in a decommissioned ward space later... Continue Reading →
Tells the story of Georg Larsen a renowned Danish War Correspondent (who played himself) in the play, and explores his attempt to make sense of the the Palestinian issue, through his filming of 3 documentaries. He interviewed Hezbollah and settlers and tried to understand the root of the conflict, which eventually wore him down, he... Continue Reading →
Real people talking - the importance of authenticity "I want to shatter the illusion of theatre, turn it inside out. I don’t want people to suspend their disbelief. I actually want them to see a human being being a human being. The stage for me is a kind of laboratory in which all humanity can... Continue Reading →
The man who gets hoodies to talk about love By SUZANNE MOORE UPDATED: 19:00, 15 October 2009 I am, I must admit, not a natural 'theatre' person. This was brought home to me by that wonderful scene in Peep Show when the obnoxious Mark and Jeremy go to a fringe show in order to impress... Continue Reading →
Following on from the critically acclaimed Doubting Thomas, Jeremy Weller (winner of six Fringe First awards) and Grassmarket Projects return with part two of a devised trilogy with Thomas McCrudden: a former gangland enforcer who struggles to change from a violent past to a more hopeful future. With a cast of untrained actors, the play... Continue Reading →
“Engaging, thought-provoking, disturbing” “Very good performance, a story well told with no extra props” “Quite hard-hitting but believable” “Eye-opening” “Difficult to watch at times but an excellent production” “Very powerful, passionate” “Very intimate and very real” “Powerful, real and deeply relatable for many men and women” “Very powerful and gave me an insight into things... Continue Reading →
‘DOGLIFE’ – part two of a trilogy devised with Thomas McCrudden who plays himself. Thomas was a gangland enforcer for organised crime who spent 5 years in prison for attempted murder. He passed the writings about his life as a criminal to theatre-maker Jeremy Weller - winner of 6 Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Awards - who thought there might... Continue Reading →
We are happy to announce that Jeremy Weller is invited to start Practice based PhD in September 2017, with Queen Mary University London. This practice-based PhD project comprises a trilogy of plays written by me, and documentation of process in which Thomas, a former mafia enforcer, is enabled to tell the complex story of his violent of-... Continue Reading →
There’s a scene in Doglife, one of this year’s most talked-about plays at the Edinburgh Fringe, where the wife of a Glaswegian gangland enforcer, confronting him about his job, suddenly writhes onstage as if experiencing the violence he inflicts on others: she describes having her fingers cut off, then reels as if she can feel... Continue Reading →
Suzanne Lofthus, Cutting Edge Theatre I was already doing passion plays, and had contacted Jeremy to look at the possibility of working together. As we talked, I was inspired by the radical approach he had and that challenged me to take more risks in my work. I was then asked to go into Angola prison in Louisiana... Continue Reading →
They are the generation who have grown up under devolution. Now, nine teenagers from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales share their vision of the system that brought them up. Work with theatre, film director Jeremy weller, who directs their story. Interview with Jeremy Weller on BBC Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bq9d0
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