Blog Posts
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Haunt Commission
To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost. A place much frequented. To haunt one’s thoughts or memory. Haunt was an Imove project with fiction writer Steve Toase that sprang from his experiences and grew into a book Haunt and site-specific theatre piece of the same name. The first incarnation of the show…
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Medusa, Helen Mort
I said my first reviews would be of novels written by women. That was until I saw Medusa, poet Helen Mort’s first full length theatre piece, at The Carriageworks in Leeds on Halloween night. Having long been an admirer of Helen’s, I knew the writing would be accomplished but was interested to see how she would…
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Baby X, Rebecca Ann Smith
Plaiting together the stories of Dr Alex Mansfield, Dolly, and Karen Frey, Rebecca Ann Smith’s Baby X tracks these women’s relationships with a human foetus as it develops in an artificial uterus. This is a novel about fertility treatment and its implications, about the danger of privatising health services and the ways in which a…