Hi – I’m Lucy, producer of arts and culture events around the UK, based in Norwich.
My driving passion is developing opportunities for telling stories with grit and bite. I’m particularly interested in giving a voice to groups and individuals who sometimes find themselves at the margins of society. I do this through the events and productions that I shape and devise. Below you can see some of my recent work…
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What I’m currently working on
True Stories Live
Anecdotal stories told by people like you.
True Stories Live is a lively, moving and unpredictable event where people tell true stories about their lives in front of a warm, supportive audience. There is no audition process or strict set of criteria – you just have to have a story to tell, based loosely on the set theme.
DIRT
A hard-hitting and gritty play about the perennial graft of piece work in family run Fenland bulb sorting business. Written by Joseph Connolly and Toby Clarke with movement direction by Sean Hollands.
Two work-in-progress showings in Norwich: See showings >
Phoenix, Dodo, Butterfly.
A unique blend of drama and discussion: A workshop with which to imagine the future.
Portfolio
Balloon
A fun, fierce and fascinating evening of full throttle debate on some of the most inflammatory questions of our time…
The Players are stranded high in the sky in a hot air balloon which is losing height fast. The only way to save any of their skins is for the Pilot to eject one, two, three… Players to lighten the load. The decision as to who plummets to earth and who lives to fight another round will be up to YOU (mostly).
A Respectful Conversation
Everyone is shouting and no one is listening – which is why we need a safe space for discussion.
Panels of speakers representing our wide communities and hosted by Katy Jon Went participate in discussions on a wide range of subjects such as gender, activism free speech. The audience and panel members also hear from expert witnesses who have to navigate these tricky issues in their professional lives. This is not a debate with winners and losers but the chance for proper conversations to take place in a safe and respectful environment. There is always plenty of opportunity for everyone to join in and share thoughts and ideas with a view to enabling a better understanding of all points of view.
Mother Country
Who owns former slave Mary’s story? The abolitionists want to publish it but Mary needs to speak her truth to power. An uncompromising play telling the real story behind Britain’s first published black female author.
Written by Mags Chalcraft-Islam. Performance dates August 2021: Pleasance, Edinburgh and touring thereafter.
Feast of True Stories
Food and stories are natural companions and have been shared since the building of the first campfire; this event brought to you by True Stories Live and the Bicycle Shop pays homage to that tradition. Storytellers will tell stories inspired by the theme and memorable food related to it. The audience will share the experience of both the story and the food. This evening will take place over three courses with three accompanying stories, told by people like you.
Shed
Jack, was born on the day of the very first Wembley Cup Final at the exact moment Bolton Wanderers’s first goal hit the West Ham net at quarter to four, on the Spring afternoon of the 28th of April 1923. In the final hour of Jack’s life the boundaries between fantasy and reality blur. He offers up the small downfall of my life; recounts the loss of his father and young French wife in World War Two. He loves buses, the sea, carpentry, hoarding and telling small lies.
Shed is a theatrical adaptation of Martin Figura’s poetry collections Shed & Arthur. It follows on from Martin Figura’s two award winning multi-media spoken-word shows Whistle and Doctor Zeeman’s Catastrophe Machine. Shed is set on the Suffolk Coast, facing mainland Europe at our most eastern point.
CAMP! is an urgent queer cabaret play that makes a song and dance about the media’s silence on the emergence of state-sanctioned anti-gay purges in Chechnya.
Written by James McDermott with songs and music by Charlie Caine , CAMP! Is available to tour from Autumn 2021. Co-commissioned by Norwich Arts Centre and Norwich Theatre Royal and supported by funding from Arts Council England.
MUCK
Dysfunctional siblings, Kelly and George, are thrown back together after the death of their cantankerous Nan. MUCK is a dark , raw and dirty. It is about the harsh reality of trying to escape your past when the love for your family pulls you back there.
Written by Joseph Connolly and Gabriella Padula and directed by Toby Clarke, MUCK is available for touring from Spring 2022.
Shall we work together?
If you would like to work on something with me, please get in touch: