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.
Doubting Thomas is the true story of one man’s personal struggle to change from a tortured and violent past to a better, more hopeful future. The play is an intricate study of those that which society fears the most are actually the ones who are often most filled with fear themselves: Lost and forgotten and... Continue Reading →
First and foremost, this is a tribute to the NHS and its phenomenal capacity to scoop people up, patch them up and send them on their way. But at the same time, it sweeps up politics (funding allocation), economics (drug choice), employment rights (long hours for workers, lack of support), the ethics of entitlement and... Continue Reading →
That health inequality is just as true in Edinburgh as is made clear in Where It Hurts (Summerhall, until 26 August), a piece by Jeremy Weller and the Grassmarket Project in which non-actors share real life personal stories. Edinburgh streets, just a mile apart, have a difference in life expectancy of over 10 years. What Where it Hurts makes... Continue Reading →
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 in a communal waiting room. Among other things, we hear from a female victim of... 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 honest personal experiences remind us of just how vital our NHS is, and how close... 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 to us tonight is not fictitious – the performers are not trained actors. This is... 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. The play explores the experiences of the (so called) Hard to reach and their experiences of accessing 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 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 →
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