This deserves a spot on the timeline - the first show I'm producing with @fernculture Fern Culture Presents:
LITTLE ANIMALS
Conceived, Written & Performed by Paul Ready
Directed by @caroline_j_m_steinbeis
Co-produced by @pentabustheatrecompany in association with the @thegulbenkian
Little Animals is the story of a life-long friendship, set in a culture that canāt stop consuming. As Richardās climate concern grows more extreme, and his friend struggles with mortgages, parenthood and the stresses of modern living, a wedge is driven between them. Because we canāt all sit around growing f**king tomatoes. Can we?
18-31 August 2026, @traversetheatre at the Lyceum Studio (times vary - booking link in bio)
Join us for the world premiere in Edinburgh this August.
Hi everyone,
As you know I have been supporting @mona_abed2007 and her family throughout the genocide, and you have all been helping, with so much generosity.
Mona has - amazingly - persisted with her studies and is now at university studying to be a civil engineer, to help rebuild Gaza. She needs our help with her tuition fees, and her family needs support with their basic expenses.
Anything you can contribute is much appreciated. Link in bio.
This is her brother Yazan wishing us all a Blessed Ramadan.
THE TIME IS NOW >>>
Just announced:
The Climate Playwriting Prize 2026 will uncover the most new exciting plays about the climate crisis, and support them to find their audiences.
We believe that playwrights have a vital role to play in the conversation around the climate. Theatre is a space for animating audiences, forming communities, and experimenting with form; a space for processing the past, articulating the present, and imagining the future. Beyond the West End, regional and touring theatre is playing a vital role in engaging audiences.
This moment is marked by rising temperatures, escalating impacts of change on communities and ecosystems, but also by the unprecedented call to arms to storytellers at COP30 in 2025. The need for new stories that help audiences grapple with the realities and possibilities of this crisis has never been clearer.
In order to surface the breadth and diversity of new stories about this planetary moment, the Climate Playwriting Prize is an open invitation to playwrights to respond creatively to this subject matter. We are partnering with organisations all around the country to deliver workshops to writers, unlocking how they might want to tell their climate story.
Co-founders: Climate Spring, Shakespeareās Globe & Fern Culture.
In association with Chichester Festival Theatre, Exeter Northcott, Leeds
Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Mercury Theatre Colchester, New Earth,
Pentabus & tiata fahodzi.
LINK IN BIO.
Hey hey! On 13th March Iāll be at the Mayflower in Southampton exploring the power of arts and literature to make change with some BRILLIANT author/activist minds. See you there?
