In a nutshell: Grassmarket Projects director Jeremy Weller has assembled a cast of non-actors – both erstwhile NHS patients and health care workers – and devised a script based on their experiences of the health system that’s relayed as if spontaneously... Continue Reading →
Unlike most productions at the fringe, Where It Hurts is an authentic piece performed entirely by non-actors, directed – or perhaps curated – by Jeremy Weller. An examination of NHS care by a cast of both patients and staff, these raw and... Continue Reading →
It’s more of an institution than the BBC or the monarchy combined. There are so many stories of the health service which cross the entire spectrum of emotions, some of which none of us will have experienced. What is presented... Continue Reading →
Jeremy was invited to be guest speaker at the conference, Performance and mental Health: Perspectives and Practices, 13th June 2018. He was presenting "Where it hurts” his 2018 Edinburgh Festival Play. His production developed while he was an artist in residence with the NHS.... Continue Reading →
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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Continue Reading →
