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.
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
THE ART OF DISCONTENT If it is love that makes the world go round; it is discontent that motors the art world. Each new generation of young artists-if they have any serious ambitions to change the world- will be hostile to everything that has now become conventional and acceptable. They will especially want to blow... Continue Reading →
Limboland: 3 year education programme funded by the Danish Government Departments of Education and Integration. The programme was based upon using a documentary filmed during the making of Limboland that was shown to second generation immigrant teenagers in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, and formed the basis for a discussion with the cast of Limboland,... Continue Reading →
Great News! Jeremy Weller has been commissioned as a writer-director to develop a performance involving local communities around Little France and NHS staff including all levels of staff from doctors to cleaning staff. He could also make a film about the process. A little bit about the residency: Currently under construction at Little France on... Continue Reading →
Doubting Thomas, the play that tells the story of Thomas ‘Tosh’ McCrudden, has been the talk of the Edinburgh Fringe. Pamela Morrison went on a journey with this ‘lost boy’ to experience a powerful tale of reintegration, responsibility and redemption. As a new member of the CYCJ practice team I am keen to get out and about and learn... Continue Reading →
"I’ve seen one piece of theatre that changed my life – Jeremy Weller’s Mad. It changed my life because it changed me – the way I think, the way I behave or try to behave. If theatre can change lives, then by implication it can change society"
Sharing Stories , Sharing Lives … "What is love? Love is an expression, an emotion I don’t know about...whatever it is. I ask people what is love and no-one comes with a good enough answer... " Cast member of The Young Foolish Man. Drifting around London, fending for himself. Never had a stable home. An amazing... Continue Reading →
What Weller can do, as an artist in the “social inclusion” space, is create dramatic engagements around the concepts he is addressing. His work is based on the legitimacy of “front-line” work with the parties in the intimate social process. His drama always has a basis. He develops his insight by going where others cannot,... Continue Reading →
Can those we see as other find a place, a home amongst us? Can they live at peace with us, and with themselves? This is the question that confronts a group of second generation immigrants in Jeremy Weller's controversial new film, LIMBOLAND. A group of young, non-professional actors tell the story of their struggle to... Continue Reading →
