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.
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
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 →
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